Maine gov cool to cell phone health warnings bill The Boston Globe | AUGUSTA, Maine-As a proposal to require health warnings on cellular phones got a fresh legislative review Tuesday, Gov. John Baldacci made clear his opposition but stopped short of threatening a veto. | "As it stands the governor doesn't support the bill, and he's based that decision largely on th...
Maine Gov Cool To Cell Phone Health Warnings Bill CBS News Maine Gov. Baldacci Opposes Legislation That Would Require Health Warnings On Cell Phones | Font size Print E-mail Share (AP) AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - As a proposal to require health warnings on cellular phones got a fresh legislative review Tuesday, Gov. John Baldacci made clear his opposition but sto...
Unemployment In Connecticut Hit 9 Percent In January Hartford Courant Unemployment in Connecticut ticked up slightly to 9 percent in January, the highest in this recession, according to a new report released Tuesday by the state Department of Labor. | The January rate, up from 8.8 percent in December, is the highest nu...
State Pitches New $352 Million UConn Health Center Plan As 'Partnership' Hartford Courant FARMINGTON — - The price tag is $352 million, but as Gov. M. told it Tuesday, the latest plan for the has something for everyone. | 's John Dempsey Hospital would get a new $236 million patient tower, and the UConn Health Center would get $96 m...
NH campaign finance activist Granny D dies at 100 The Examiner Comments CONCORD, N.H. (Map, News) - Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate, has died. She was 100. | Haddock died...
Builder: No ‘blackmail’ at Filene’s Boston Herald | The co-developer of the stalled Filene’s project said his team is not leaving a giant hole in Downtown Crossing to extract public money for the project. | “We have asked the city for help, but there’s a big difference between aski...
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Stop & Shop contract OK'd The Providence Journal | CRANSTON - Local Stop & Shop Supermarket workers voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to approve a new three-year contract with their employer, ending about two months of negotiations ...
Gas prices up 9.58 cents nationwide over 2 weeks The Examiner Comments CAMARILLO, Calif. (Map, News) - The average price of regular gasoline in the United States is up 9.58 cents over a two-week period to $2.73. | That's according to the nati...
Debate around meals tax heats up The Boston Globe | BEVERLY - Seven months after they were granted the authority by the Legislature, one in five Massachusetts communities has opted to boost its local meals tax, adding 15 cents to ...
Long-Term Unemployed Finding It Sometimes Pays Better Not To Work Hartford Courant Ten months after Mark Krawiec lost his road construction job, he eagerly took a six-week assignment on Route 2 that paid just over $1,000 a week. | Big mistake. | "By working and knowing it wasn't steady, and it wasn't going to last long, I cut my ow...
Court To Move Quickly On Pratt & Whitney's Appeal On Plant Closures Hartford Courant A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted Pratt & Whitney an expedited review for its challenge of a lower-court decision barring company plans to close its factory. | The order from the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in renews the possibility th...
NRG To Lay Off Nearly 70 Workers At Four Connecticut Power Plants Hartford Courant plans to lay off nearly 70 employees at its four operating Connecticut power plants in June, about 35 percent of its state workforce, a company spokesman confirmed Tuesday. | -based NRG operates four power plants in the state, in , , Milford and Norw...
More college professors hitting delete on laptops in classrooms The Dallas Morning News | WASHINGTON - A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation since the ballpoint pen. | But during the past decade, it has evolved into a powerful distraction. Wireless Internet connections tempt students away from note-typing to e-mail, blogs, YouTube videos, sports scores, even online gaming - all the div...
Obama has not received Nobel prize money yet Deccan Herald Washington, Mar 10 (PTI) | Three months after receiving the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, US President Barack Obama is yet to receive the USD 1.4 million cash award, the White House said on Wednesday. | "Not that I am aware of, no," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters at his daily press briefing when asked if Obama has ...
