Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Today's Teamster News 07.06.11

Recall elections this month  Today's TMJ4   ...Wisconsin is one week away from the start of recall elections for nine state senators...
Developmentally disabled run over by Kasich’s budget bus  Plunderbund   ... sorry to those developmentally disabled kids of Twinsburg. Next time you should make sure you have the right lobbyist...
Once-growing movie business is now shrinking  Detroit Free Press   ...More than four months after Gov. Rick Snyder announced plans to drastically scale back generous incentives for moviemaking, Michigan's once rapidly expanding film industry is shrinking...
Voters angry about Minnesota shutdown give Republican lawmaker an earful at July Fourth parade  Associated Press   ...With neither side willing to budge, talks broke down Thursday night hours before the government shutdown. They have yet to resume...
With enemies like these, Chris Christie doesn't need to make friends  Capital New York   ...Only in New Jersey could it even possibly be a sign of a healthy, functioning political partnership when the president of the State Senate calls the governor "a rotten prick...
The Rock and the Hard Place on the Deficit (opinion)  New York Times   ... tax increases and spending cuts will tend to slow the recovery in the near term, but spending cuts will likely slow it more...