Today's Teamster News 02.11.13

Trains Restart as U.S. Northeast Fights Back From Storm  Bloomberg   ...Transit officials across Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island were forecasting a return to almost full service after crews dug out tracks and bus routes blanketed by as much as three feet of snow that began falling Feb. 8...
China Eclipses U.S. as Biggest Trading Nation Measured in Goods  Bloomberg   ...U.S. exports and imports of goods last year totaled $3.82 trillion, the U.S. Commerce Department said last week. China’s customs administration reported last month that the country’s trade in goods in 2012 amounted to $3.87 trillion...
US Air, AMR near $11 billion merger, deal seen within week : sources  Reuters   ...US Airways Group Inc (LCC.N) and AMR Corp (AAMRQ.PK) are nearing an $11 billion merger that would create the world's largest airline and could announce a deal within a week, after resolving key differences on valuation and management structure, people familiar with the matter said...
Have coal companies been ripping Americans off even more than we already knew?  Grist   ...companies pay 25 cents a ton for coal from public lands and then can turn around and sell it for $35 a ton....
Complex Investments Prove Risky as Savers Chase Bigger Payoff  New York Times   ...Regulators across the country are confronting a wave of investor fraud that is saddling retirement savers with steep losses on complex products that until a few years ago were pitched only to the most sophisticated investors...
Ethanol Plants Idled Since Drought Began  Associated Press   ...Many U.S. ethanol plants have halted production over the past year, mostly because the drought has made it difficult to get locally produced corn...
Dude, where's my cheap gas?  Econbrowser   ...a 5.3% increase in petroleum production over the last two years would have been necessary to keep the price of oil from rising. Ongoing conservation, for example, in the form of continued improvement in fuel economy, has been a key factor keeping the oil price from rising more in the face of world income growing much faster than world oil production...

Today's Teamster News 12.19.11

Growth of large private water companies brings higher water rates, little recourse for consumers  Austin American-Statesman   ...a growing number of suburban Texans are getting their water from large, private corporations owned by investors seeking to profit off the sale of an essential resource. State figures show private companies are seeking more price increases every year, and many are substantial...
This slump won’t end until 2031 (opinion)  MarketWatch   ...the Long Depression of 1873 to 1896 ...  a far more instructive episode than the Great Depression of the 1930s...
Will China Break? (opinion)  New York Times   ...China ... is emerging as another danger spot in a world economy that really, really doesn’t need this right now...
Study: Nearly 1 in 3 will be arrested by age 23  USA Today   ...The high rate of arrest among youth is troubling because the records will follow them as adults and make it harder for them to get student loans, jobs and housing...
Keelan: The anti-ethanol uprising (opinion)  VTDigger.org   ...why do we use ethanol in the first place? According to some experts its use and production are costly and detrimental to the environment. And wouldn’t you know, the federal government provides farmers with billions of dollars in subsides to grow the corn...
Work in Progress  The Journal-Gazette   ...Republican lawmakers have made no secret of their intention to make Indiana the 23rd right-to-work state. And on the other side, labor representatives have made it clear they will fight to prevent it...

Today's Teamster News 01.16.11

High-Speed Rail Tour  KFSN-TV News  ...Valley officials acted as tour guides today for a group of Chinese investors...
Nixon releases $7.5 million in state funding to help Missouri school districts  Kansas City Star  ...School districts could begin using the funds immediately to reinstate canceled bus routes...
Many snowplow drivers in Virginia district a no-show for work (Local 320) Duluth News Tribune  ...Three-fourths of the St. Louis County road-maintenance workers in the Virginia district didn’t respond to an emergency call-out Saturday morning...
Sen. Mike Lee Calls Child Labor Laws Unconstitutional
ThinkProgress.org   ...Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) ... claims that federal child labor laws are unconstitutional...
How Many Senators Does It Take To Screw A Taxpayer?  zero hedge   ... Every time you fill up your car this winter you are participating in the biggest taxpayer swindle in history...
Woman fights bank fees, missed final house payment  Associated Press   ...LaSalle Bank and Cenlar Federal Savings Bank started foreclosure proceedings in 2007 after the hospitalized Allen missed the last $432 payment on her Deptford, N.J., home...