IS IT TRUE November 12, 2012 Part Two (City Council Tonight)
IS IT TRUE November 12, 2012 Part Two (City Council Tonight)
IS IT TRUE that the City of Evansville Controller, Russ Lloyd, Jr. is bringing another accounting mistake to the attention of city council tomorrow evening? …that City Controller Lloyd is asking council to make an adjustment of exactly $1.38 to the Recovery Act Justice Federal grant fund?…also true that Controller Lloyd, Jr. will be ask by members of city council the status of the $1 million accounting program that has failed to provide him and taxpayers with the real and accurate information concerning how much we have in all financial accounts that allow us to fund the total operations of Evansville?
IS IT TRUE that City Controller Russ Lloyd, Jr. shall present another request to city council tomorrow evening? …he shall request that additional funding be approved to cover salaries and expenses for EVCBA to manage Robert’s Stadium through December or until demolition begins?… he shall claim that when the 2012 budget was prepared it was not known the exact numbers of months expenses would be necessary?…that the Mayor’s “financial hatchet man” Russ Lloyd, Jr. should be prepare to field several pointed and direct questions by city council members concerning this request for this budget adjustment? …we can expect the Mayor’s (“political spin doctor”) Chief of Staff shall be ready to defend Russ Lloyd, Jr. interesting budget adjustment request?
IS IT TRUE we wonder if the City of Evansville’s one million dollar accounting program is finally working properly?…we also wonder why a meeting of the Evansville City Council was scheduled on Veteran’s Day that is a holiday at many municipalities across this country and a worthy day to show honor to American’s who served their country in the military?
A Pragmatic Canadian’s View of the Presidential Election
Excerpts:
“Barack Obama’s victory this week was hoped for, and celebrated, in Canada as a triumph of Canadian-style Americanism.”
“This was an historic election, but not in ways that Americans or the Canadian left will celebrate. Mitt Romney was never a strong candidate, and any serious incumbent would have sent him to the proverbial dust-bin of history”
“A shocking $3-billion was spent to keep a failed administration and mediocre congressional leaders (House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid) in place, operating a system that is very corrupt and is almost completely dysfunctional. Almost nothing worthwhile was said during the campaign about anything substantial. There is nothing in any of it to celebrate. An incumbent president was re-elected to a second term with fewer electoral votes than he had the first time — the first time this has happened.”
“The administration couldn’t run on its record, and so resorted to a smear campaign against Romney with a fear-mongering leitmotif about “reproductive rights.†None of the leading figures seemed able, right down to the nauseating treacle on election night, to stop the clap-trap about “the greatest power in human history’s greatest days are ahead of it†long enough to notice what a basket case America has become.”
“Public health and education standards have collapsed (though not those in the private sector); the whole country is being terrorized by a fascistic prosecution service; and the number of food-stamp recipients and the number of people with criminal records are coursing neck and neck toward 50 million apiece, a shocking figure in each case. The wealthiest country in history is bankrupt, with 50 million citizens in poverty and the entire middle class on an economic knife-edge.”
“Historically, when America has needed leadership, its greatest leaders have come forward. Not this year.”
“Lest any reader fear otherwise, I am not partisan, nor, overall, to the right of Obama. But I support a more consistent definition of American security interests than has been shown by his feckless attitude toward almost everything — including Iran’s Green Revolution and nuclear program, the failed “reset†with Russia; Libya and Syria. But at least he has avoided the open-ended adventurism of his predecessor.”
“I favour low income taxes and less regulation than the administration. But, as I wrote here on Wednesday and especially after spending three years in American prisons, I am a strong leftist on protection of human rights and liberties, restraint of rabid prosecutors and a radical effort to address poverty. Yet Obama’s “sharing the wealth†approach won’t accomplish anything.”
“This president has converted the $10-trillion of national debt accumulated in 232 years of American history (from 1776 to 2008) into $16-trillion now, and has financed most of it by selling bonds to the Treasury’s 100% subsidiary, the Federal Reserve, in exchange for bogus cyber-notes. This violates George Washington’s injunction to defend an indissoluble Union militarily and with a strong currency.”
“It isn’t debt at all; it is just a money supply increase of incendiary inflationary consequences, with a delay-fuse provided by the proportions of the economic slow-down the official extravagance has failed to alleviate, in which the 25% annual gasoline price increase and double-digit food and milk price increases are disguised by collapsed housing prices and minimal interest rates, and the recessionary pricing of manufacturers. It is a giant shell game, but there is nothing under any of the shells.”
“this President has added $17,000 of new debt for every man, woman and child in the country, and given no hint of how he proposes to prevent the U.S. currency from becoming toilet paper. And there are five million fewer Americans working than four years ago. The greatest and wealthiest nation in history is sliding into a more profound bankruptcy than any serious country has had since Weimar Germany, and almost the whole country seems to be in a delusional fantasyland.”
“Nothing short of higher taxes on discretionary transactions to shrink the deficit, lower income taxes to promote growth and recovery, a serious spending review including entitlement reform, a bi-partisan assault on medical costs (more than twice what they are in other advanced countries such as Canada, while providing inferior care for a third of Americans, a state of affairs that will not be much altered by Obamacare); and a radical reconstruction of the education and justice systems, will restart the long-inexorable rise of America. There is no sign of any of this being considered or that it is even politically possible.”
“For the first time, a combination of non-white minorities and whites who are invested personally, either emotionally or more often for tangible reasons, in the redistributive side of the political civil war between advocates of growth and of direct transfers of resources from those who have earned them (or inherited from those who did) to those who haven’t (regardless of mitigating circumstances), has eked out a clear victory. If American politics continues along these lines, the social strains, piled onto the funeral pyre of the national accounts, will put the fate of what has long been the world’s greatest nation in acute doubt.”
“the geopolitical vacuum incarnated by Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and the Republicans who sat the race out, will create a powerful and dangerous vortex. These will be perilous times.”
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/11/10/conrad-black-the-obama-disaster-part-ii/
Reid to present illustrated lecture on ’37 flood at USI
Dr. Robert L. Reid, USI provost emeritus and professor emeritus of history, will present a free, illustrated lecture on “The Great Flood of 1937†at 2 p.m. Tuesday, November 13, in Kleymeyer Hall in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center at USI.
Reid’s January lecture on the same topic attracted a standing-room only crowd to the Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science. The lecture has since been updated with new video footage and photos.
Reid has published several books on local and North American history. He holds a bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and master’s and doctoral degrees from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
The program is for USI Retirees, but the public is welcome to attend.
Source: USI.edu
UE Celebrates International Education Week November 12-16
From November 12-16, the University of Evansville will celebrate its sixth annual International Education Week. This series of events, observed by educational institutions around the world, promotes the benefits of international education and cultural exchange.
UE’s International Education Week activities begin Monday, November 12 with a keynote address from Dan Miller, executive director of the Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana. Miller will present “Experiences from My Global Career: Perspectives on Lessons Learned,†discussing his experiences in more than 50 countries over his 25-year global business career, which included the roles of president and CEO of International Knife and Saw in Cincinnati, Ohio; president and COO of Overhead Door Corporation in Dallas, Texas; and executive vice president of Kimball International and president of Kimball Furniture Group in Jasper, Indiana.
Miller’s presentation, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 7:00 p.m. in Smythe Lecture Hall (Room 170) in the Schroeder Family School of Business Administration Building.
On Wednesday, November 14, all are invited to participate in free, half-hour language lessons taught by UE faculty, students, and Fulbright foreign language teaching assistants. Languages include Persian, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, French, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Wolof, and Portuguese. Sessions run from 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in Eykamp Hall; for a detailed schedule, please visit the IEW website.
International Education Week concludes Friday, November 16 with the International Club’s 26th annual International Bazaar, which runs from 4:30-8:30 p.m. in Eykamp Hall. UE’s international students will serve food from their home countries (including gazpacho from Spain, bulgogi from Korea, biryani from Pakistan, and empanadas from Brazil), perform cultural music and dances, and celebrate peace by displaying 1,000 paper cranes on the Eykamp Hall stage. Tickets are $10 for general admission, $7 for UE students, and free for children under 8.
International Education Week was launched in 1999 as a joint initiative of the United States Departments of State and Education. It aims to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States.
The University of Evansville proudly welcomes international students from around the world and encourages students to pursue cultural and academic experiences abroad. This semester, 217 international students from 46 countries are enrolled at UE. During the 2012-13 academic year, 285 UE students are expected to study abroad in approximately 20 countries. With approximately 50 percent of undergraduates studying abroad, UE is a national leader as recognized by the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors report (which last year ranked UE 13th in the nation for undergraduate study abroad participation among master’s-granting institutions).
IS IT TRUE November 12, 2012
IS IT TRUE November 12, 2012
IS IT TRUE that the City of Evansville has no master plan whatsoever when it comes to targeting growth, prosperity, and enhancing the life experience for its residents?…every project that has moved forward since roughly 2005 has been done either outside of the scope of the last master plan or as a silo idea of some elite elected official with no rhyme or reason when the big picture is considered?…the last master plan that was published during the Lloyd Administration does not even have a Ford Center type of facility in downtown Evansville?…as frustrations mount from financial losses and at the Ford Center, a vacant lot where a Convention Hotel would be by now if an intelligent master plan and a basic understanding of economics were in charge, and the 50 year legacy of empty storefronts in the downtown do not change, our city leaders can simply make stupid statements?…the stupidest by far is the statement that “we WANT the Ford Center to make moneyâ€?…a close second in the world of the living brain dead is “we HOPE that the Ford Center will start attracting some businesses to the downtownâ€?…if Evansville’s leadership had PLANNED and BUILT A SUSTAINABLE KNOWLEDGE BASE about such things that downtown Evansville could be looking very different right now?…the path to prosperity and quality of live with a VIBRANT (Mayor Winnecke’s new buzz word) starts with a plan that a good majority of the people of Evansville buy into?…that would take real creative thinking, analytical ability, and collaborating as opposed to parroting the words without doing these things?
IS IT TRUE now that the poorly thought out consolidation plan has been destroyed at the ballot box the dreaded and sometimes threatened A word (annexation) is already been heard in the Civic Center?…this seems very much like a thief who asked for your property just stealing it after you said no?…all annexation thoughts and efforts should have a respectable time period like 3 or 4 years before being seriously considered?…the people who voted against this are still smarting from what they saw as an unacceptable plan from an autocratic and manipulated committee?…this annexation thing needs to rest until a master plan is finished that makes financial sense and has substantial buy-in from the community?…it also needs to rest until the next election for Mayor of Evansville where annexation plans can be a good issue for the debates?…the next three years are a golden opportunity for Mayor Winnecke to lead a real revitalization planning session so that outsiders see the City of Evansville as something more than a dying city looking to grab the life raft known as Vanderburgh County or some other ridiculous public project like temples to sport, dog parks, or skateboard centers?…maybe just maybe the last of the Front Door Pride homes will have been sold by then?
IS IT TRUE that anyone who can make a buck singing, dancing, or playing someone else in a film seems to think they need to give politics a shot?…the latest in the long line of entertainers to mouth off about running for office is Ashley Judd, the self proclaimed #1 fan of the University of Kentucky Wildcats?…Ms. Judd is reportedly considering a run for United States Senator from Kentucky the next time Mitch McConnell is up for re-election?…if Rosanne Barr can collect a few votes in California for President then Ms. Judd should attract a few votes across the river from McConnell haters?…Ms. Judd was even rumored on a few blogs this week to have been spotted on a motorcycle with former Louisville football coach and alpha-Razorback Bobby Petrino?…that Petrino is widely believed to be in consideration to succeed Joker Phillips as the head football coach of the Wildcats?…a package deal that includes a weekly ride on a motorcycle with Ashley Judd may just seal the deal to get Petrino to join the Big Blue?
Master Dog Park Plan from Denver
The City of Denver has six dog parks. The sizes range from an acre up to three acres. Minimally dog parks have a perimeter fence, some benches to sit on, a place to dispose of dog wastes, and a free run area.
Excluding the cost of the land private groups have installed dog parks at existing parks for a cost of between $25,000 and $100,000 per park. Dog owners in Denver and other locations have shown a willingness to pay a fee of about $50 per year for he use of dog parks. Most users of dog parks walk their dogs to the parks as opposed to driving so distance from dog owners residences are to be considered in choosing a location. Finally dog parks have restriction on proximity to play areas for protection of children from aggressive dogs.
Enjoy seeing what a real plan looks like. If realistic thinking prevails Evansville may just be able to put in some dog parks at appropriate locations for a reasonable ($25,000 per park) cost and generate fees from dog owners to cover the expense of maintenance.
Link to Denver Master Dog Park Plan
http://www.denvergov.org/Portals/626/documents/Off_Leash_Dog_Park_masterPlan_web_.pdf
The Voters that Stayed Home, by: Andrew McCarthy
The CCO has been curious about the nearly 100 Million eligible voters who did not vote since that fact was disclosed. After all it seems as though 30% of eligible voters re-elected the President while 29% voted for Mitt Romney and another 0.7% went for Libertarian Gary Johnson. That means that just over 40% of eligible voters for some reason voted “none of the above”. Here are some excerpts and a link from a very telling article about who stayed home and why. Our warning is that this is not kind to either political party but is particularly harsh on Republicans.
Excerpts:
“But the story is not about who voted; it is about who didn’t vote. In truth, millions of Americans have decided that Republicans are not a viable alternative because they are already too much like Democrats. They are Washington. With no hope that a Romney administration or more Republicans in Congress would change this sad state of affairs, these voters shrugged their shoulders and became non-voters.”
“The country yawned. About 11 million fewer Americans voted for the two major-party candidates in 2012 — 119 million, down from 130 million in 2008. In fact, even though our population has steadily increased in the last eight years (adding 16 million to the 2004 estimate of 293 million Americans), about 2 million fewer Americans pulled the lever for Obama and Romney than for George W. Bush and John Kerry.”
“Obama lost an incredible 9 million voters from his 2008 haul. If told on Monday that fully 13 percent of the president’s support would vanish, the GOP establishment would have stocked up on champagne and confetti.”
“if there is any silver lining for conservatives here, it’s that Obama was hurt more by the decrease in his level of support from this demographic — down six points from the 66 percent he claimed in 2008 — than by the marginal drop in total youth participation. It seems to be dawning on at least some young adults that Obamaville is a bleak place to build a future.”
“The brute fact is: There are many people in the country who believe it makes no difference which party wins these elections. Obama Democrats are the hard Left, but Washington’s Republican establishment is progressive, not conservative. This has solidified statism as the bipartisan mainstream. Republicans may want to run Leviathan — many are actually perfectly happy in the minority — but they have no real interest in dismantling Leviathan. They are simply not about transferring power out of Washington, not in a material way.”
“Yes, Democrats are reckless in refusing to acknowledge the suicidal costs of their cradle-to-grave nanny state, but the Republican campaign called for enlarging a military our current spending on which dwarfs the combined defense budgets of the next several highest-spending nations. When was the last time you heard a Republican explain what departments and entitlements he’d slash to pay for that?”
“Our bipartisan ruling class is obtuse when it comes to the cliff we’re falling off — and I don’t mean January’s so-called “Taxmageddon,†which is a day at the beach compared to what’s coming.”
“What happens, moreover, when we have a truly egregious Washington scandal, like the terrorist murder of Americans in Benghazi? What do Republicans do? The party’s nominee decides the issue is not worth engaging on — cutting the legs out from under Americans who see Benghazi as a debacle worse than Watergate, as the logical end of the Beltway’s pro-Islamist delirium.”
“Republicans talk about limited central government, but they do not believe in it — or, if they do, they lack confidence that they can explain its benefits compellingly. They’ve bought the Democrats’ core conceit that the modern world is just too complicated for ordinary people to make their way without bureaucratic instruction. They look at a money-hemorrhaging disaster like Medicare, whose unsustainability is precisely caused by the intrusion of government, and they say, “Let’s preserve it — in fact, let’s make its preservation the centerpiece of our campaign.â€
“Republicans lack the courage to argue from conviction that health care would work better without federal mandates and control — that safety nets are best designed by the states, the people, and local conditions, not Washington diktat. In their paralysis, we are left with a system that will soon implode, a system that will not provide care for the people being coerced to pay in.”
“Truth be told, most of today’s GOP does not believe Washington makes things worse. Republicans think the federal government — by confiscating, borrowing, and printing money — is the answer to every problem, rather than the source of most. That is why those running the party today, when they ran Washington during the Bush years, orchestrated an expansion of government size, scope, and spending that would still boggle the mind had Obama not come along.”
“That is not materially different from what the Democrats believe. It’s certainly not an alternative. For Americans who think elections can make a real difference, Tuesday pitted proud progressives against reticent progressives; slightly more preferred the true-believers. For Americans who don’t see much daylight between the two parties — one led by the president who keeps spending money we don’t have and the other by congressional Republicans who keep writing the checks and extending the credit line — voting wasn’t worth the effort.
Those millions of Americans need a new choice. We all do.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333135/voters-who-stayed-home-andrew-c-mccarthy?pg=1
Obama Voters: by Councilwoman Stephanie Brinkerhoff-Riley
Obama Voters
After President Obama won re-election, Ted Nugent tweeted that his supporters were “pimps, whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters.†He went on to ask “what subhuman varmint believes others must pay for their obesity booze cellphones birthcontrol abortions & lives.†Bill O’Reilly called them the people who “want stuff,†while Ann Coulter referred to them as the “takers†of our society. Peter Morrison, the Republican Party Treasurer in Hardin County, Texas, achieved national headlines with his Facebook rant that supporters of President Obama were “maggots†and “baby-murdering, tax raising socialists.†Across the conservative blogosphere and via social media outlets, the President’s supporters have been accused of everything from stupidity to solely voting along ethnic lines.
So who are these people really? Are President Obama’s supporters made up of welfare recipients, people lacking a religious affiliation and those without a formal education- essentially the great unwashed masses? The answer is a resounding no.
Let’s look at welfare recipients first. There is a common belief among conservatives that President Obama owes his second term to entitlement programs and those who benefit from them. This is not true. People living in poverty ($15,000 a year or less) don’t make up any greater portion of the electorate than those with an income of over $200,000 a year. Both groups equate to about 6% of voters. Although there are certainly more poor people than those making over $200,000 a year, the groups vote at very different rates. It’s simply a misconception that poor people vote. Most do not. Although the poor tend to vote Democrat when they do vote, so do people making over $200,000 per year. President Obama also received 73% of the Asian American vote, and this group earns more per capita than anyone else. As to those receiving Medicare and Social Security (over 65), 56% voted for Mitt Romney.
There is also a belief among conservatives that those without a religious affiliation (i.e. the soulless baby-murderers) are to thank for President Obama’s victory. This is also not true. African Americans voted for President Obama at the rate of 93%, and Latinos at the rate of 71%. Both groups report a higher church attendance than any others. Catholics voted at a rate of 50% to 48% for President Obama, while Jewish people went with President Obama to the tune of 69%. Those voters who did not list a religious affiliation voted overwhelming for President Obama (70%) but make up less than 20% of the electorate.
The final myth is that President Obama’s supporters lack an education. The exact opposite is actually true. A majority of those with a post graduate degree voted for President Obama. Republicans and Democrats are fairly even with those having only a high school education trending Republican. As voters gain formal education they tend to vote Democrat. This is a phenomenon that has been occurring since the 1980s when those with a college degree used to vote overwhelmingly for Republicans.
Other groups who supported President Obama are young people and women. Voters from 18 to 29 voted 60% for him and voters from 30-39 voted 55% for him. Women, who make up 53% of the electorate, went with President Obama 55% of the time. Single women, who account for 23% of all voters, supported him overwhelmingly at 67%. The only groups won by Mitt Romney were white voters, who make up 72% of the electorate, but continue to shrink in numbers, and Protestants.
So, to answer the question succinctly as to who are the supporters of President Obama- it’s everybody else. And there is no relief in sight for the primarily white Republican Party. 50,000 Latinos will turn 18 every month for the next 2 decades, while women, young people and African Americans continue to turn out in record numbers.
With President Obama being so vulnerable this time, it begs the question of whether he actually won or if the policies of the Republican Party were rejected. Exit polls revealed that voters found Democrat policies more favorable to the middle class, Latinos, women and youth, and also that President Obama cared more about people like themselves. Most voters also blamed Republican policies for the current economic condition.
While Republican soul-search this week, they should look at not just the lack of inclusiveness of the party itself, but also of its policies. The United States isn’t just changing, it’s changed. Good Republican ideas have been squelched by concepts like “self-deportation†and “legitimate rape.†Responsible fiscal conservatism is just what this country needs, but the social agenda baggage needs to be checked at the door. It’s time to say good-bye to the Tea Party and hello to demographics and math.
Sources Include:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/ted-nugent-on-obama-election-twitter-rant-economic-spiritual-suicide_n_2094490.html
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-oreilly-white-establishment-is-now-the-minority-people-support-obama-because-they-want-things/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/demoralized-ann-coulter-laura-ingraham-over-hope_n_2089678.html
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/09/texas_gop_official_maggots_re_elected_obama/singleton/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/17/rush-limbaugh-says-welfare-recipients-turn-out-to-vote-in-force-they-really-dont/
http://www.asian-nation.org/model-minority.shtml
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-election-20121111,0,2275455.story
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012-exit-poll
http://www.gallup.com/poll/125999/mississippians-go-church-most-vermonters-least.aspx
http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/75.5.pdf
http://www.governing.com/blogs/politics/gov-political-demographic-trends-brighter-for-democrats.html
Election Triggers Layoffs
Do elections have consequences? If you have been paying attention to the financial markets, you might think so. Wall Street has had two horrible days since President Obama won a second term.
However, stock prices are not the only thing taking a hit. It appears that the job market is also suffering. In the last 48 hours, the following major corporations have announced layoffs in America (links take you to news stories about the layoffs – with details from the companies):
• Energizer –
The St. Louis-based company said Thursday that it expects to shed about 1,500 employees. When finished, the restructuring should lead to $200 million in pretax yearly savings, Energizer said. It aims to have most of its restructuring steps finished by the end of September 2014.
• Exide Technologies –
Exide Technologies announced Thursday that it will be idling its lead-recycling operations in Laureldale and laying off 150 workers, effective no later than March 31.
• Westinghouse –
Westinghouse Anniston, the contractor responsible for shutting down Anniston’s chemical weapons incinerator, has reduced its workforce by another 50 employees.
• Research in Motion Limited –
Research in Motion Ltd., the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, laid off about 200 people at its U.S. headquarters in Irving on Wednesday, according to a source close to the company who did not want to be named.
• Lightyear Network Solutions –
More than one dozen employees at a Pikeville company lost their jobs this week. Officials with Lightyear Network Solutions said they are consolidating offices in Louisville and Pikeville to save money.
• Providence Journal –
The Providence Journal Co. laid off 23 full-time workers Wednesday as part of a cost-cutting effort, including 16 members of the Providence Newspaper Guild and 7 non-union employees.
• Hawker Beechcraft –
The company says 240 employees will lose their jobs with the closing of Hawker Beechcraft Services facilities in Little Rock, Ark.; Mesa, Ariz.; and San Antonio, Texas.
• Boeing (30% of their management staff) –
Boeing Co. said Wednesday it plans to employ 30% fewer executives at its Boeing Defense, Space & Security unit by the end of 2012 compared to 2010 levels.
• CVPH Medical Center –
CVPH Medical Center has handed pink slips to 17 employees. The layoffs — nine in management and eight hourly staffers — are part of an effort to “help bolster the hospital’s financial position in 2013 and beyond,†a press release said.
• US Cellular –
The move will result in 980 job cuts at U.S. Cellular, with 640 in the Chicago area, according to a spokeswoman. The cuts are slightly under 12 percent of the approximately 8,400 total employees U.S. Cellular had at the end of the third quarter.
• Momentive Performance Materials –
About 150 workers at Sistersville’s Momentive Performance Materials plant will be temporarily laid off later this month, officials said this week.
• Rocketdyne –
About 100 employees at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, most of whom work in the San Fernando Valley, were laid off Wednesday in response to dwindling government spending on space exploration, the company said. The layoffs were effective immediately, and 75 percent of them came at the facilities on Canoga and De Soto avenues, which employ about 1,100 people. The company has six sites across the Valley.
• Brake Parts –
The leader of an automotive parts plant in Lincoln County has told state officials that there are plans to lay off 75 workers starting in late December…The layoffs are expected to start Dec. 28 and continue in the first quarter of 2013
• Vestas Wind Systems –
Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS) is seeking to sell a stake of as much as 20 percent and said it’s reducing headcount by 3,000 to raise the staff cuts by the biggest wind turbine maker to almost a third over two years.
• Husqvarna –
Husqvarna AB (HUSQB), the world’s biggest maker of powered garden tools, plans to cut about 600 jobs in a move that will save 220 million kronor ($33 million) a year by 2014.
• Center for Hospice New York –
The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care plans to temporarily lay off as many as 40 employees next year as it embarks on a major renovation of the inpatient unit at its Cheektowaga campus.
• Bristol-Meyers –
Bristol-Myers Squibb is following up its lackluster third-quarter results with almost 480 layoffs. As Pharmalot reports, the company notified the New Jersey government that it would scale back in Plainsboro, which means the cuts will hit its sales operations.
• OCE North America –
Trumbull printer- and scanning-equipment provider Oce North America, Inc. will lay off 135 workers in three Connecticut communities, including East Hartford, according to its notice with the state Labor Department.
• Darden Restaurants –
The company, which was among those who had received an Obamacare waiver in the past, is looking to limit workers to 28 hours per week. A full time employee that is required to have health insurance (lest the employer pay a fine) works 30 hours per week, as defined by the Obamacare law.
• West Ridge Mine –
In its statement, UtahAmerican Energy blames the Obama administration for instituting policies that will close down “204 American coal-fired power plants by 2014″ and for drastically reducing the market for coal.
• United Blood Services Gulf –
United Blood Services Gulf South region, the non-profit blood service provider for much of south Louisiana and Mississippi, will lay off approximately 10 percent of its workforce. It was a hard decision to make according to Susan Begnaud, Regional Center Director for the Gulf South region.
A layoff is tough enough for employees to deal with, imagine hearing the crushing news that your office is shutting down just before Thanksgiving and Christmas… Here are some of the business closings that were announced in just the past two days:
Caterpillar Inc. will close its plant in Owatonna Minn.
Mount Pleasant’s Albrecht Sentry Foods
The Target store at Manassas Mall Va.
Millennium Academy in Wake Forest NC
Target Closing Kissimmee FL Location
The Andover Gift Shop in Andover MA
Grand Union Family Markets Closing Storrs Location CT
Movie Scene Milford Location NH
Update: TE Connectivity Closing Greensboro Plant – 620 Layoffs Expected
Gomer’s Fried Chicken in South Kansas City
Kmart in Homer Glen
Fresh Market on Pine Street in Burlington
AGC Glass North America to permanently close its Blue Ridge Plant in Kingsport Tenn.
The Target store at Platte and Academy in Colorado Springs
The Roses store on Reynold Road in Winston-Salem NC
Bost Harley-Davidson at 46th Avenue North and Delaware Ave. in West Nashville TN
Townsend Booksellers in Oakland
The Kmart store in Parkway Plaza off University Drive in Durham NC – 79 Jobs Lost
To see even more companies that announced layoffs since the election, visit the Daily Job Cuts page.
Source: The Blaze