GoLocalProv Rob Horowitz: Food Stamps Are the Wrong Political FootballGoLocalProvIt is the case, as Republicans point out, that food stamp usage has increased with nearly 50 million Americans now receiving SNAP assistance, including 17% of Rhode Island and 13% of Massachusetts residents. The program now costs more than $70 billion …Opinion: …
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RESIDENTS have welcomed a decision which will safeguard Post Office services in their village. More: continued here
Read More »eBay’s No-Poach Deals Called bad for Business – Courthouse News Service
eBay's No-Poach Deals Called bad for BusinessCourthouse News ServiceSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – California fired back at eBay's motion to dismiss the state's antitrust claims over an alleged "handshake" agreement with Intuit not to recruit one another's employees, saying the online auction house's refusal "to even admit its … More: continued here
Read More »Is Royal Mail PLC Set For Electrifying Earnings Growth In 2014?
Today I am looking at whether Royal Mail Group's earnings prospects for 2014 are too good to pass up. Make no mistake: Royal Mail (Other OTC: ROYMF – news) 's letters business is on borrowed time, as the effect of evolving technologies on the way people communicate makes the centuries-old …
Read More »After decades at post office, Bethesda mural finds a new home – Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
After decades at post office, Bethesda mural finds a new homeGazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online(From left) John Salhus and Ewa Devereux of Parma Conservation in Chicago use archival glue made from a 700-year-old recipe to mount a 1929 mural by Robert F. Gates, titled “Montgomery County Farm Women's Market,” on …
Read More »Royal Mail and CWU agree three-year pay deal
Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) on Monday came to a 'landmark' agreement which included a three-year pay offer covering around 139,000 employees. More: continued here
Read More »Royal Mail Posties Won’t Deliver by Bike After 2014 – Gizmodo UK
Gizmodo UK Royal Mail Posties Won't Deliver by Bike After 2014Gizmodo UKThe chunky red Pashley Mailstar bicycle used by posties in some of the flatter parts of the country are about to disappear, with the Royal Mail set to remove the remaining 3,000 or so still in use around the …
Read More »Where posting letters takes first class effort: Royal Mail mystery as official … – Daily Mail
Daily Mail Where posting letters takes first class effort: Royal Mail mystery as official …Daily MailAnother passing motorist added: 'I couldn't believe it when I first saw it. 'I had to go back and check and it is a realistic letter box stuck on to the concrete structure somehow. 'Unless …
Read More »Cuts To Food Stamps Taking New Form, Eliminating Heating Subsidies Loophole – Firedoglake
GoLocalProv Cuts To Food Stamps Taking New Form, Eliminating Heating Subsidies LoopholeFiredoglakeWhile Congress may be interested in blowing over $600 billion to subsidize defense contractors in fighting the non-existent Soviet Union, the food stamp program is facing the knife. Now you might note that the Pentagon can't account for trillions …
Read More »After decades at post office, Bethesda mural finds a new home — Gazette.Net
The women of Bethesda are back where they belong. For more than 70 years, a mural depicting the Montgomery County Farm Women’s Cooperative Market hung above the customer service desk at the post office on Wisconsin Avenue. More: continued here
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