One of the largest employers in Davie County is planning job cuts.
Ingersoll-Rand will be lying off 110 employees at its Mocksville plant by the first on next year. On Tuesday, Hanesbrands announced that close to 400 jobs will be eliminated. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/20/ingersoll-rand-cuts-jobs/news/
Ministries and non-profits feeling the effects of the bad economy: ‘Focus on the Family’ has eliminated more than 200 positions…the largest staff cuts in the group's 31-year history. www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=326008
www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000008708.cfm
Slumping TV ratings and lower-than-projected race attendance has prompted some NASCAR teams to eliminate jobs. Petty Enterprises in Mooresville will lay off 26 employees. Last week, Dale Earnhardt Inc. announced it was cutting as many as 110 jobs by the end of the year. A merger of DEI and Chip Ganassi Racing is in the works.
www.wxii12.com/sports/18018057/detail.html
Wall Street dropping to a 5 year low on Wednesday. Crude oil prices holding steady at about $53 dollars a barrel.
Lawmakers lashed out at the CEOs of the Big Three US auto makers for flying private jets to Washington, DC to request taxpayer bailout money. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-New York saying: "It's almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in high hat and tuxedo."
www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/19/autos.ceo.jets/index.html
THE CALIFORNIA STATE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT WILL HEAR A CHALLENGE TO PROPOSITION EIGHT. That's the ballot measure defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman which was passed by California voters on November 4th. A major point of the legal challenge is over whether Proposition Eight was a constitutional revision or an amendment.
http://srnnews.townhall.com/news/religion/2008/11/19/calif_supreme_court_takes_up_prop_8_case,_but_lets_it_remain_in_effect_during_interim
President Elect Obama has decided to nominate Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader, as secretary of health and human services.
Former President Bill Clinton has agreed to all of the conditions sought by President-elect Obama's transition team to eliminate potential conflicts of interest if Sen. Hillary Clinton (his wife) becomes secretary of state.
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/20/bill-clinton-reported-to-have-okd-terms-for-wife-t/
TEMPERS HAVE FLARED FOR A SECOND DAY IN THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT, AS LAWMAKERS DEBATE A PLAN FOR U.S. TROOPS TO STAY IN IRAQ THROUGH THE
END OF 20-11. The plan calls for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq until the end of 20-11…replacing
the current U.N. mandate that expires on December 31st of this year.
Bless You? An untimely sneeze nearly cost Andrew Hanson his life. The 42-year-old man from Boston told authorities that a sneeze caused him to lose control of his pickup on Soldiers Field Road and plunge into Boston's Charles River on Tuesday. Andrew said later…after I sneezed, "the next thing I knew I was in the river." http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081119/D94HN8R80.html
A North Carolina sheriff's official has apologized for disrupting a funeral when undercover agents tried to arrest the dead man's son - and used a Taser on him in the process. It happened as the coffin was being loaded into a hearse. The officers planned to quietly arrest pallbearer Gladwyn Taft Russ III.
Read more: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081120/D94ICEGG0.html
Survivor: Guatemala Voting continues. Read the final four stories: www.wbfj.org/event3.htm Survivor: Guatemala underwritten by “Castaway Kid” a must read by Rob Mitchell. November is National Adoption Awareness Month
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season
Details about the Great Stocking Stuff with WBFJ and the Salvation Army online @ http://www.wbfj.fm/
High scoring Deacons: Wake Forest running away from UNC-Wilmington 120-88
So Conn: ASU over UNC-Charlotte (double OT) 87 – 84
