Job alert - - Protecting our heritage: Byrd opposes outsourcing of Amtrak jobs

Protecting our heritage: Byrd opposes outsourcing of Amtrak jobs
Bluefield Daily Telegraph - As a railroad community proudly built upon the foundation of coal, we join U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., in opposing the proposed outsourcing of America s national railroad jobs to foreign countries. Byrd, along with U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D

Expanded bus service includes jobs line, specials for seniors
Lexington Herald-Leader - Beginning August 21, LexTran will venture into new territory, sending buses into the belly of some neighborhoods in an effort to offer more personalized service. LexConnects, the umbrella for LexTran's special services, will offer: Two

Stocks down after warnings, jobs data
WOOD - NEW YORK Stock prices are mostly weaker on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average is down 82 points at 11-thousand-145. Decliners on the New York Stock Exchange hold a slim lead over advancers. The Nasdaq Composite Index has lost nearly eleven

Bell Industries to add 500 jobs, gets $30M in contracts
Los Angeles Business - Bell Industries has received new service contracts for its technology services business expected to add 500 jobs in the next six months and $30 million to its 2007 sales, the company said Friday. The new customers include a broadband phone service

Grant to pump jobs at Vineyard
News-Star - At least 45 jobs will be created at Vineyard Furniture International's Winnsboro headquarters after the Louisiana Economic Development Corp.'s approved a $336,000 grant Friday to build an office complex at the town's industrial park. Winnsboro will

Five Iowa towns join forces to attract corporate jobs
KWQC - DES MOINES, Iowa Five Iowa towns are joining forces to bring corporate jobs to their communities instead of overseas. Leaders in Algona, Harlan, Mount Pleasant, Oelwein and Osceola have started "Offshore Iowa." They say their towns can offer

Drug-maker looks to grow: Plans call for 350 jobs
Boston Herald - B ristol-Myers Squibb Chief Executive Peter Dolan said yesterday that the creation of a manufacturing plant in Devens will be the company s biggest investment to date. It s the single largest capital investment Bristol-Myers Squibb has ever

Deluges delaying drainage, road jobs
Corpus Christi Caller - "With the rain we had here, there hasn't been much progress, if any, on all of the construction projects," he said. "Really nobody has done much of anything." Power said delayed city projects include construction at Cimarron and Yorktown boulevards

Stocks plunge on profit warnings, oil prices, jobs report
Baltimore Sun - NEW YORK // Corporate profit warnings and record oil prices accompanied a lukewarm job-creation report to send stocks sharply lower yesterday, as investors worried that the economy was cooling too quickly. The Dow Jones industrials shed 134 points as

Jobs 2010 gets its first leader
Chillico Gazette - A Cincinnati native will head a local effort to develop the area's economic base. Christopher Manegold, 56, will become the first chief executive officer of the Economic Development Alliance of Southern Ohio on July 24. He's currently the president