NFL 2011: NFL Clubs Approve Comprehensive Agreement www.sportscapperisland.com/ NFL 2011 NFL Clubs Approve Comprehensive Agreement 07/22/2011 NFL CLUBS APPROVE COMPREHENSIVE AGREEMENT NFL clubs approved today the terms of a comprehensive settlement of litigation and a new 10-year collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Association. The vote was taken at a league meeting in Atlanta […]
Governor-Elected Cuomo Compares NYS Fringe Benefits to GM’s Before Bankruptcy
Governor-elect Cuomo compared the fringe benefits paid to NYS employees to those paid by GM before its bankruptcy according to the Journal News. The Governor-elected pointed out that if fringe benefits are not reduced — next year they will represent a 59% uplift to salary – New York State is going to have to reduce […]
In Dialysis, Life-Saving Care at Great Risk and Cost
In 1972, after a month of deliberation, Congress launched the nation’s most ambitious experiment in universal health care: a change to the Social Security Act that granted comprehensive coverage under Medicare to virtually anyone diagnosed with kidney failure, regardless of age or income. It was a supremely hopeful moment. Although the technology to keep […]
Ghana increase cocoa prices
Ghana has raised cocoa prices for the 2010/11 season by 33.33 percent in an effort to stop smuggling and motivate farmers to produce more in the coming season. Prices for the 2010-11 season set to begin on Oct. 1 will be 3,200 cedis ($2,238) per tonne, up from 2,400 cedis per tonne during the 2009-10 […]
Internal BP Probes Warned of Accidents – For Years
by Abrahm Lustgarten and Ryan Knutson A series of internal investigations over the past decade warned senior BP managers that the company repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental rules and risked a serious accident if it did not change its ways. The confidential inquiries, which have not previously been made public, focused on a rash of […]
Ten Ways You Can Tell If You Are A Teabagger
1) If you are part of a movement that mocks sick, disabled, or terminally ill people, you are a teabagger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ik4f1dRbP8 2) If you are part of a group of people that hurl racial and homophobic slurs at elected officials. (Extra-special teabaggery awarded to those that called my former congressman and civil rights leader, John […]