Saturday, January 23, 2010

Feds file antitrust suit against Dean Foods

Dean's Dean Foods Co. purchased a smaller dairy company [Foremost] in Wisconsin to quash competition and drive up milk prices.

"purpose of the department's lawsuit is to restore competition so that schools, grocery stores and other retailers in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, will pay lower prices for their milk."

Click on the following for more details:  Daily Herald | Feds file antitrust suit against Dean Foods

Northwest Herald changes archive policy

Northwest Herald - Local news and video for McHenry County, Illinois

The NW Herald is trying to raise more money from it archives.  Links to NW Herald stories older than seven days will no longer be available without a fee.  Because of this,  links to this source will be minimized. Older posting with the NW Herald will not be available without your payment of a fee.

Here’s the new policy:

The most recent 7 days of articles are available for free. For articles older than 7 days there is a small fee for retrieval from our archive.This archive has a variety of pricing options for purchasing articles.

To allow for flexibility, we offer a day pass and a week pass along with single article purchasing. You will be asked for your credit card information as part of the set up process.

When you are ready to purchase, you can choose from the following options.

Single article purchase = $2.95
You can choose to purchase one article at a time for $2.95 per article.
Each purchase is reflected as a single purchase on your credit card.
There are also a variety of other options for purchasing articles:

  • 3 Pack: $6.95, one week duration
  • 10 Pack: $21.95, one month duration
  • 25 Pack: $49.95, one month duration
  • 40 Pack: $79.95, one month duration
  • 500 Pack: $995, one year duration
  • 1,000 Pack: $1,995, one year duration

Words can come back to haunt GOP

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Businessman, Jack Roeser of  http://www.championnews.net, famous for publishing teachers/administrators salaries of schools across the state has been caught making some outlandish remarks.

you insist upon employing outrage, innuendo, screaming and fear as your primary political tools, at some point, it will come around to bite you in the butt. And some Republicans, like Carpentersville businessman Jack Roeser, are looking to repair their pants, because that bite just came in the form of some "interesting" local radio commercials produced by Illinois GOP U.S. Senate candidate Andy Martin.

Click on the following to read the entire article:  Words can come back to haunt GOP :: The Courier News :: Town Talk

Five states where GOP might pull another Brown

Arkansas.Nevada.Pennsylvania.Colorado.Delaware.

Bonus Extra. Unlike the five states listed above, North Dakota has a seat in play this fall that is almost certain to switch sides

Click on the following for more details:  Five states where GOP might pull another Brown / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Illinois jobless rate back over 11 percent

Illinois hasn't seen unemployment this high since 1983.

Illinois' jobless rate rebounded past 11 percent in December, rising 0.2 percent to 11.1 percent

Click on the following for more details:  Northwest Herald | State jobless rate back over 11 percent

Most Union Members Now Work for Government

first time in American history, a majority of union members are government workers rather than private-sector employees, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Friday.

in 2009 that the 7.9 million unionized public-sector workers easily outnumbered those in the private sector, where labor’s ranks shrank to 7.4 million, from 8.2 million in 2008.

7.2 percent of private-sector workers were union members last year, down from 7.6 percent the previous year. That, labor historians said, was the lowest percentage of private-sector workers in unions since 1900.  ….Among government workers, union membership grew to 37.4 percent last year, from 36.8 percent in 2008.

Most Union Members Now Work for Government - NYTimes.com