The Chalkboard (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
The teachers union gets its way - again, even in a supposed state fiscal crisis.This week the state legislature created a Tier V retirement system for state and local employees hired after January 1st. The unions are delighted with the measure, which is the tell-tale sign that it fixes little if anything in terms of state and local fiscal problems. In fact, it's a missed...
eJewish Philanthropy (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Michele Chabin writing in The Jewish Journal: New Rules for L.A./Tel Aviv Student Trips Israel’s Ministry of Education’s decision this week to change the way student exchange programs are operated and possibly funded could have a significant impact on the exchange programs»
TurboTax Online (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Every year we must file our federal and our state taxes. You will only have to file one federal return but depending on what states you have worked or lived you may have to file more than one state tax...
RELO RoundTable…a gathering place (Free subscription) | yesterday
To comply with a new 'final rule' recently announced by the U.S. Census Bureau, the International Association of Movers (IAM), a global association of movers and forwarders, issued the following guidance to help individuals and companies involved in exporting household goods and personal effects from the United States. Steven Leff of International Logistics Services provided [...]
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
"The vote was about protecting state's voters": In Sunday's edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Patience Drake Roggensack, a Justice serving on the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, will have a very interesting op-ed that begins, "Recently, the Wisconsin Supreme Court...
Kissing Suzy Kolber (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... it annoys the bejeezus out of me. So much so that my money league instituted the “Keenan McCardell Rule” which states when this happens, the defensive team owner is not awarded with a fluke touchdown — the vagaries of the NFL scoring system be damned.
Les Jones (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The Daily Crux - The bankruptcy of the United States is now certain : “When governments go bankrupt it’s called “a default.” Currency speculators figured out how to accurately predict when a country would default. Two well-known economists - Alan Greenspan and Pablo Guidotti - published the secret formula in a 1999 academic paper. That’s why the formula is called the Greenspan-Guidotti rule....
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday
Union ministers AK Antony and P Chidambaram, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and chief minister's of several Congress-ruled states besides AICC office bearers personally greeted Gandhi.
Sify (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
A Florida judge has ruled that the state must pay for a costmetologist to cover up neo-Nazi tattoos on a man on trial in a murder case.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
A Florida judge has ruled that the state must pay for a costmetologist to cover up neo-Nazi tattoos on a man on trial in a murder case.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
A Florida judge has ruled that the state must pay for a costmetologist to cover up neo-Nazi tattoos on a man on trial in a murder case.
to herd or not to herd (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
When governments go bankrupt, it's called a "default." Currency speculators figured out how to accurately predict when a country would default. Two well-known economists – Alan Greenspan and Pablo Guidotti – published the secret formula in a 1999 academic paper. The formula is called the Greenspan-Guidotti rule. The rule states: To avoid a default, countries...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- A Florida judge has ruled that the state must pay for a costmetologist to cover up neo-Nazi tattoos on a man on trial in a murder case.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A judge has ruled that the state of Florida must pay a cosmetologist up to $150 a day to cover up offensive tattoos during the trial of a neo-Nazi charged with murder and attempted murder.
Crime Scene (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Judge Michael Andrews ruled that the state must pay a cosmetologist up to $150 a day to cover John Allen Ditullio's tattoes, which include a large 6-inch swastika. A new and improved Ditullio, 23, will face murder and attempted murder...
