Sunday, October 2, 2011

Today's Teamster News 10.02.11

Hundreds arrested in Wall Street protest  Financial Times   ...More than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters have been arrested for blocking traffic on Brooklyn Bridge during an unauthorised march...
"Recall Scott Walker" banner flown during Badger pregame  WEAU 13 News   ...Anti-Walker demonstrators made sure they were seen in the sky during the Wisconsin vs. Nebraska pregame on Saturday at Camp Randall...
Walker’s Agenda Riddled with ALEC ideas  The Progressive   ...there are more than a dozen special interest giveaways in the GOP jobs package (which also)... includes at least two pieces of ALEC model legislation...
Scott can't stop Workforce funds, Rep. Brown says  Orlando Sentinel   ...U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has waded into the uproar surrounding Workforce Central Florida, insisting that Gov. Rick Scott has no authority to block federal funding of the region's embattled jobs agency...
John Kasich Replaces Rick Scott As Most Unpopular Governor In 2011  Huffington Post   ...Public Policy Polling surveyed Florida voters and found 52 percent disapprove of Republican Gov. Rick Scott -- an improvement in his poll numbers that leaves Ohio Gov. John Kasich as the most unpopular governor the Democratic-leaning firm has polled in 2011...
SEC investigating Missouri sweetener project  Associated Press   ...A recent disclosure indicates the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a so-far unsuccessful effort to build an artificial sweetener plant in the central Missouri town of Moberly...