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Bryant students headed to inauguration (The Providence Journal)
Rich Holtzman's students will go to the presidential inauguration, examine the 2008 election and study the challenges facing the new administration. Bryant students headed to inauguration (The Providence Journal)
SMITHFIELD –– Seventeen Bryant University students, including one from Ghana and one from Russia, are taking a historic field trip to Washington, D.C., next month –– to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama. Gilbert woman pins hopes on home giveaway (East Valley Tribune)
Nothing about the stucco and red tile roof of the suburban Gilbert home with neat, personal touches like wall art doubling as light fixtures screams foreclosure. Yet that's the predicament Heather Gray finds herself in due to personal circumstances. Weather makes employers make payroll decisions (South Sound Business Examiner)
It's what some are calling the storm of the decade and it seems out of place in the Puget Sound. Unfortunately, the storm is here and businesses are having to make unfamiliar payroll decisions.For example, should employees who can't leave their houses due to the snow be docked a day's pay? Must the employer treat salaried and hourly employees differently? Are employees allowed to make up work ... The baby of the family business (Los Angeles Times)
Jacob Paz, who co-owns a Christmas tree lot in Torrance at 17, balances work life and studies. It's 4:30 in the morning and Jacob Paz has been awake for half an hour, trying to squeeze in a little homework. But the phone rings. A load of 250 Christmas trees is on the way. Brian Taylor blogs on first minister's questions (BBC News)
on the debate about direct elections for health boards State diciplines health care professionals (South Sound Business Examiner)
The state Department of Health has revoked or suspended the licenses, certifications or registrations of health care providers in Washington. The department has also immediately suspended the credentials of people who have been prohibited from practicing in other states. In Lewis County, the state summarily suspended the license of pharmacist Alvin Fitzgerald. His license to practice pharmacy ... Gregoire: proposed budget will close deficit without raising taxes (South Sound Business Examiner)
Gov. Chris Gregoire today proposed her 2009–11 state budget, closing a projected $5.7 billion shortfall through a combination of program reductions, suspension of salary increases for state employees, teachers and care workers, pension changes, increased federal contributions and the use of the state's rainy day fund. "Now is not the time to be raising taxes on our residents and businesses," ... Chamber After-Hours cancelled (South Sound Business Examiner)
Puyallup/Sumner Chamber of Commerce has cancelled this evening's scheduled Business After Hours event planned for Willow Gardens Retirement Living in Puyallup due to inclement weather and driving conditions.This Chamber office is also closed today for the same reason. ... Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Germans campaign to safeguard language (Independent)
Hollywood and Hitler made it the language of on-screen baddies. Before that Mark Twain had already famously dismissed it as "awful". Now American comedian Tina Fey has added her insult to decades of injury by saying the language of Goethe and Schiller is "so uncool". For decades, Germans have glumly accepted routine abuse of their language and taken insults about it lying down, but not any ...
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