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• Red Sox Prospects Learning In Arizona Fall League

  
  http://www.sox1fan.com/ — Authority: 128
  The Arizona Fall League’s all-star game, called The Rising Stars Classic, was played last night… after an off-day today, the second half of the AFL season will get underway tomorrow. The Red Sox have eight players who are assigned to the Mesa Solar Sox for the 2009 AFL season, two of whom were named to the Rising ...
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• Sheedy signing exactly what West Sydney needs

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 456
  Kevin Sheedy will coach West Sydney on a three-year appointment that will include the club’s first season in the AFL in 2012. That was the bombshell news delivered by the News Limited press late last night which will have the football world buzzing. The western Sydney AFL project suddenly has wings. In fact, ...
  17 hours ago

• Government Union Rules

  
  The Union News. — Authority: 509
  AFL-CIO militant exposes memory malfunction"I cant think of a single situation where workers were permanently replaced on the public sector," said Gordon Pavy, national collective-bargaining director for the AFL-CIO in Washington.There is a notable exception, and it made labor history. In 1981, when members of the ...
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• Voices on both sides quick to sound after health care passage

  
  Blast: Boston's Online Magazine — Authority: 604
  With only a lone Republican crossing the line and nearly 40 Democrats going turncoat, the House of Representatives still voted, 220-215, tonight to pass a historic health care reform. Locally, Representative Edward J. Markey (D), issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed a historic bill ...
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• Reds Stirrup Watch

  
  OMGreds.com — Authority: 485
  Four, count em FOUR Reds prospects rocked the 2009 AFL Rising Stars Game. It was great to see Yonder Alonso go 3 for 4 (Double, 2 RBI), Chris Heisey go 2-3 (1 HR, Double, Walk, 2 RBI) and Mike Leake pitch a scoreless inning. Zack Cozart didnt make an appearance. What did we love the most? A young Redlegs rockin ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• EPA Takes First Step in Addressing Risk Posed by Toxic Pesticide Drift

  
  Climate of Our Future — Authority: 414
  Agency announcement comes just weeks after groups petition for protectionsNovember 4, 2009  Washington, DC – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took a first step today in addressing the harmful effects of pesticide drift – the toxic spray or vapor that travels from treated fields and into neighboring ...
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• Senate Finance Committee Climate Hearing Features Questionable Witnesses

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 500
  Elana Schor has the details on Tuesday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing . She writes: The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, part of the AFL-CIO, is testifying and did support the House climate bill that passed earlier this year. Another witness comes from Pacific Gas & Electric, a utility ...
  2 days ago

• Hell No! We Won’t Send Our Tax Dollars to China

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 763
  Leo Gerard (photo: Frank Snyder for AFL-CIO via Flickr) Taking candy from a baby: A consortium of Chinese and American companies goes to Washington and announces plans to build a $1.5 billion windmill farm in West Texas using $450 million in U.S. Stimulus funds, which will create 2,330 jobs — 2,000 of them in ...
  2 days ago

• Clunker Claims and Cadillac Plans

  
  FactCheck.org — Authority: 132
  The AFL-CIO is running a print ad this week arguing that "the House bill gets it right" on health care. The Senate bill? Not so much, says the labor federation. Its beef is with the tax in the Senate Finance Committee bill on high-cost (a.k.a. "Cadillac") health care plans. Unions have come out against the tax, ...
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• Florida Activist Training Draws 200 Union Members

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
      Signing up for spcial activist training are (L-R) Beverly Curphey (IBEW), Claudie Pouncey (president of the Space Coast AFL-CIO) and Marita Palmer (AFGE).         Joshua Anijar, a zone coordinator for the Florida AFL-CIO , sends us this report on a recent activist training session ...
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• Workers Strike San Francisco’s Grand Hyatt Hotel

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
  San Francisco hotel workers rallied in September for a fair contract.   Hotel workers began a three-day strike this morning at the Grand Hyatt Union Square in San Francisco. The strike comes two weeks after members of UNITE HERE Local 2 voted by a 92 percent to 8 percent margin to authorize strikes at any of ...
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• Malthouse calls on AFL to resist free agency push

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 456
  The AFL’s longest-serving coach, Mick Malthouse, says player calls for free agency should be resisted for the sake of maintaining an even competition. The Collingwood coach says giving senior players the chance to join the team of their choice risked creating a league dominated by a select few clubs. “If we had ...
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• Matthew Johns’ footy show tackle

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 608
  Further reports on the future of Matthew Johns now suggest the (unnamed) production company he formed with John Singleton could develop a show to compete head to head with The Footy Show . The unnamed company touts everything from a new-look NRL footy show to a Paul Hogan-style comedy variety to a movie with John ...
  2 days ago

• Russell Simmons Joins Penn For Aqueduct Bid

  
  Southern Gaming — Authority: 130
  As Penn National competes with Wynn Resorts Ltd., Harrah Entertainment, MGM Mirage, Las Vegas-based Navegante Group and the Seminole Indians’ Hard Rock Casino Group for the Aqueduct gaming license, Russell Simmons teamed up with Penn National in hopes to give back to the community. LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Hip-Hop ...
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• How Are the S&Ps Dividend Aristocrats Performing?

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 681
  David I. Templeton submits: It seems it has been some time since I updated the performance of Standard & Poors Dividend Aristocrats. Year to date through November 4, 2009, the Aristocrats have generated a better return than the Dow Jones Industrial Index, 12.2% versus 11.7%, respectively. However, the ...
  4 days ago

• Geelong star signs with Seven’s AFL team

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 608
  Channel Seven has signed recently-retired Geelong captain Tom Harley to its AFL commentary team. Harley, who captained two premierships with Geelong, will join Bruce McAvaney, Dennis Cometti, Leigh Matthews and Tim Watson in Friday Night Football commentary roles. Channel Seven Melbourne General Manager Lewis ...
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• (WMT) China’s Economy Booming Again

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 506
  The World Bank now estimates that China will grow 8.4% in 2009, up from its June forecast of 7.2% growth. Like the U.S., China embarked on a large fiscal stimulus program, one that relative to the size of its economy is more than three times as large as the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act was. Well, surprise, ...
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• New Report Details the Chilling Effects of Immigration Enforcement on Workers’ Rights

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 485
  Our broken immigration system gives unscrupulous employers an incentive to hire unauthorized workers and exploit them—often resulting in depressed wages and working conditions for all workers in that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Dividend growth trio: Aflac, Medtronic and Colgate-Palmolive

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 663
  Filed under: Newsletters , AFLAC Inc (AFL) , Colgate-Palmolive (CL) , Stocks to Buy "One way to build an inflation hedge into your investment cash flows is to focus on stocks that are likely to boost their dividends on a regular basis," explains dividend specialist Chuck Carlson . In his The DRIP Investor , ...
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