by James Parks, Mar 25, 2008 Verizon workers mounted a strong campaign against the sale of the company’s landlines in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. As a result, when regulators approved the sale, the workers’ efforts created a better deal for consumers and the workers. The Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Communications Workers of America […]
McCain Stiffs U.S. Workers, Helps Europeans Win Air Tanker Deal
by James Parks, Mar 12, 2008 At a time when American jobs are disappearing and our manufacturing base is being decimated, working people are outraged that Republican presidential nominee John McCain played a key role in the Bush Defense Department’s decision to award one of our largest military contracts to a foreign company. Had Boeing […]
EMRI and the City of Austin Combine Transportation Efforts
The Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) and the City of Austin (COA) Combined Transportation, Emergency and Communications Center (CTECC) came together and signed a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) today. With this alliance, EMRI and City of Austin will participate in several exchange programs that will help study the other’s operations and thus share […]
Gov’t media lag behind in coverage
News media organizations are in mad scramble to gain foothold of their readers or subscribers in an effort to generate the much-needed revenues to defray corporate overhead and other miscellaneous expenses. Of the tri-media groups, the broadcast industry is the most expensive, considering the hi-tech equipment and modern facilities that it has to maintain in […]
Google Cries Foul Over Microsoft’s Yahoo Bid
Allowing Microsoft to buy Yahoo would create a business with an unacceptably dominant position in the vital online communications services of email and instant messaging, Google warned last night. If a deal is struck, following Microsoft’s audacious $44.6bn offer on Friday, Google also fears that the development of the internet, which has relied on open […]
Not One More – WRAN Calls For Moratorium on Cell Towers and WiFi in Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Not One More WRAN Calls for Moratorium on Cellular Antennas and WiFi in Santa Cruz County The Wireless Radiation Alert Network (WRAN) educates our community on the adverse health effects related to Electro Magnetic Frequency (EMF) exposure in the extremely-low frequency (ELF) and radiofrequency (RF) band of the electromagnetic spectrum (1-300GHz). Energies of these frequencies, […]