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Community Commentary: Anti-business bills will hurt California
What a difference a decade has made for the once thriving California marketplace. Just 10 short years ago, California was the destination for aspiring entrepreneurs and staple industry names. But misguided politics and burdensome regulations have...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Laws, DirecTV Group Inc., Intel Corp., Career and Workplace
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Mailbag: Council majority right on mobile homes
Despite the blustering of Mayor Joe Carchio and council members Don Hansen and Matthew Harper, the City Council voted to preserve the current configuration of the Mobile Home Advisory Board (MHAB) at the Oct. 3 council meeting ("Council maintains board,"...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Economy, Business and Finance, Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama, House Building
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City Council approves final budget
The Huntington Beach City Council has approved a $312.3-million budget that requires a small number of layoffs and the elimination of services and open positions. "The road to get here has been a long, hard road," City Manager Fred Wilson said at Tuesday...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Layoffs and Downsizing, Finance, Central Park, Job Layoffs
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Teachers, students and the blurry social media line
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsStudents, teachers and Facebook. Where do you draw the line? It's a question many school districts are trying to answer as social media sites are connecting people like never before. Some say it's a way for teachers to reach out to students. Critics...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Students, Social Media
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Which kind of capitalism? A debate for Obama and Romney
"This is not a distraction, this is what this campaign is going to be about," President Obama said Monday at the NATO summit. The "this" in question is Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital and what it says about Romney's economic vision for the country....
Tags: Bain Capital, LLC, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Elections, Newt Gingrich
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Euro crisis imperils recovering global economy, OECD warns
World NowMost major economies are enjoying growth and recovery after four years of turmoil but the improvements are uneven and the Eurozone crisis could spill outside Europe "with very serious consequences for the global economy," the Organization for Economic... -
Robert B. Reich: The commencement address that won't be given
Members of the Class of 2012, As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you're picking up today. You're screwed. Well, not exactly. But you won't have it easy....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Employment, Graduation, Students, Colleges and Universities
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Joe Biden says GOP stymied 'progress' in boosting economy
It's come to this: Joe Biden compared Mitt Romney to a horse. The vice president, campaigning in New Hampshire on Tuesday, argued that Romney has it wrong when he tells voters that things "have gotten much worse" and that Obama administration policies...Tags: Bain Capital, LLC, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Elections, Executive Branch
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Valley housing market on the rebound
The Lehigh Valley housing market continued to rebound in April, with sales and prices up from a year ago.
A total of 466 homes sold in April in Lehigh and Northampton counties, up 24.9 percent from the same month a year ago, according to the Prudential...Tags: Employment, Real Estate, Career and Workplace, Services and Shopping, Homes
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Economists predict 7.5% jobless rate
LOS ANGELES - By the end of next year, the unemployment rate will be at 7.5 percent. Consumer spending will be up, as will housing starts. But first, the economic recovery needs to slog its way through the remainder of 2012, economists said. Monthly non-...Tags: Employment, Land Price, Unemployment, Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities
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Lake's unemployment rate for April falls to 8.7 percent
Lake County's jobless rate continues to head in the right direction — down. Unemployment locally fell to 8.7 percent in April, down from 9.2 percent in March. And it's down 2 percentage points in just the last year, according to new figures from...
Tags: Unemployment, Career and Workplace
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Goldberg: Which kind of capitalism? A debate for Obama and Romney
The current debate over Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital is shaping up to be a centerpiece of the presidential campaign. The Romney campaign should have seen this coming. If Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry were willing to rip Romney for being too...
Tags: Joe Biden, Bain Capital, LLC, Mitt Romney, Elections, Newt Gingrich
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