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QPR REPORT (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
- - In addition to this site, try the combination messageboard and quasi-blog QPR Report Messageboard . If your're interested in constantly-updated QPR-related news; QPR nostalgia; and some other broader football-related isssues: QPR Report Messageboard is there for you. All opinions welcome! - UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY.... QPR REPORT Available on TWITTER! - QPR's Win at Sheffield Wednesday: Compilation...
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The Essence of Politics (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
More School Closures Coming to DPS Are more schools closures coming to Detroit Public Schools? On the eve before voters of Detroit go to vote on a new bond proposal for DPS, it seems as if Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb is planning to close up to 70 more schools and lay-off up to 4,000 DPS workers by 2011, as part of a new five-year deficit elimination plan, according...
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MichiganLiberal (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
I'm not sure who is responsible for the headline on this morning's Op-Ed piece by Tom Watkins, but I do like the imagery it evokes. And, thankfully, Watkins has himself earned status as a Very Serious Person because he was fired for saying something unpopular, which means that we can take the entire thing to the bank as unadulterated Truth. In fact, this morning's Freep Op-Ed piece wasn't the only...
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Just Style (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Wherever you look just now, it seems someone's saying the recession's nearly over. Investigate the evidence, though, and many pre-recession problems in the apparel industry are coming back. Falling prices, rising wages, the fear of protectionist action, and even indentured labour are just some of the reasons to be cheerless, writes Mike Flanagan.
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B l o g - L e b o (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
The senior vice president and chief financial officer of St. Clair Hospital yesterday made a conditional use request of the Mt. Lebanon commissioners to expand the hospital's operating area. Mike Flanagan said more space is needed to respond to the increasing volume of operation procedures being performed. The proposed construction project, of one story plus the basement of the existing campus facing...
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Camden Chat (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
More photos » by Duane Burleson - AP Your time is almost up, Danys. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson) Browse more photos » With just a few days left in the 2009 season, the Orioles are on the cusp of being out from under a number of contracts, notably those of the pitchers Danys Baez and Jamie Walker , two of the more ill advised contracts in recent Oriole history. Between the two of them they...
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Halos Heaven (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
OK, so, the other day I pointed out that the Angels , with their 89th win this year, became 1 of only 8 franchises in ML history to chalk up 89 wins in 6 consecutive seasons. As commenters rightly pointed out, this wasn't exactly a fair fight for those quality teams who played less than 162 games in a season (everyone before '61, and then also '72, '81, '94, and '95) . So, I decided to take our baseline...
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Just Style (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Fast fashion has for years been hailed as the "next big thing." But a glance at any major clothing store in Europe or North America would suggest fast fashion has already taken over the industry. What hasn't happened, though, is the accompanying shift in production to local factories that was so widely predicted. Here Mike Flanagan looks at why retailers show little sign of sourcing closer...
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299 Steps to Website Heaven (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Regular readers know that in the last few months we’ve taken to including cartoons in our newsletter – we use Mike Flanagan of Flantoons and he’s fab This month our newsletter will focus on Google Adwords help, and our September special offer, which is a Google Adwords Healthcheck for just £40. One of the things [...]
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The Essence of Politics (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Reported early this week, state appointed Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb had hired his former employee Public Financial Management to a huge no bid contract to come up with a deficit reduction plan among other things. However as of Sunday, it is being reported that Bobb and State Superintendent Mike Flanagan have ties to the same financial management that does work for over 100 municipalities...
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Just Style (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
From credit problems at CIT, to falling pay and rising opposition to the political situation in Honduras, textile and apparel suppliers last month faced up to a number of significant sourcing issues. But perhaps most momentous of all was the unlikely positioning of Walmart and the Chinese government as environmentalists' great hopes, writes Mike Flanagan.
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MTV News (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
DEA and police officials raided Dr. Conrad Murray's Las Vegas home and office early Tuesday. By Eric Ditzian Michael Jackson Photo: Eamonn McCormack/ WireImage Following the searches of the Las Vegas home and medical office of Michael Jackson's personal physician on Tuesday (July 28), a Drug Enforcement Agency investigator said in a press conference that agents were searching for documents as part...
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Bugs and Cranks (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
Only one thing will save Dave Trembley’s job as Orioles manager. They simply cannot fall into the crapper again this year. "Don't touch me, Dave." Trembley’s generally respected as a good fit for the Orioles. He took over the team at its low point and he taught fundamentals and discipline. ( Allow me an aside here. Has there ever been a manager about whom it was said, “He...
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WWMT.com : News (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan's top education official wants schools to each identify 10 to 15 students at risk of dropping out and step in to keep them in the classroom. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan announced his
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Just Style (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Never one to mince his words, apparel industry consultant Mike Flanagan believes the US' plans to make textiles produced in Pakistan's tribal areas eligible for import into the US duty-free is an idea that's about as loopy as "telling Americans that building garment factories in Yosemite would cure urban crime." In this special analysis for just-style he explains that two new textile trade...
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