TREE ALERT !!!
Public Works of the City of Livingston plans to cut down 4 mature and very vibrant silver maples on the southeast corner of Geyser & K Streets, on the K Street boulevard. The four trees are somewhere between 100 and 150 years old. Roots have broken the concrete sidewalk along K Street. No [...]
Minimum wage stuck in the 1950s
By Holly Sklar
Distributed by McClatchy Tribune News Service, 7/23/09
Copyright 2009 Holly Sklar (reprinted in this blog by permission of the author)
Are you better off than you were 40 years ago? Not if you’re a minimum wage worker.
It would take $9.92 today to match the buying power of the minimum wage [...]
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“The Tester Logging Bill makes it clear: If you are an inside player, you get the pork (and the “rocks and ice”). If you’re not an insider, you can go straight to hell.”
FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2009
That [...]
Sick Around the World, a PBS Frontline Documentary will be shown for FREE on
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15TH, 7 PM,
at the LIVINGSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
Following the movie there will be a community discussion led by a panel of health care professionals, featuring Dr. Richard Damon, a retired family practice physician, Rachel Rockafellow, RN, who teaches at MSU, [...]
The July meeting has been changed: We will meet on TUESDAY instead of Thursday. We will meet at MARGIE’s HOUSE at 6 pm. Tasks will be assigned for the swap meet. Also, please come to Margie’s house again on Thursday at 6 and from there we will go to the storage units [...]
Meet the Retreads
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Of all of Barack Obama’s airy platitudes about change none were more vaporous than his platitudes about the environment and within that category Obama has had little at all to say about matters concerning public lands and endangered species. He is, it seems, letting his bureaucratic appointments do his talking [...]
The July meeting will be at 7:45 pm downstairs in the Livingston Library. Please come. This is just two days before the swap meet, so don’t let it take your energy away from the help we need with setting up the Swap meet on Friday and working there on Saturday. It’s a [...]
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