Business Insider:
For Anyone Who Thinks Wisconsin State Workers Are Overpaid...

First, the comparisons for public and private employees nationwide.


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L.A. Times: Borders Group files for bankruptcy reorganization

The bookseller, struggling with poor sales and heavy debt, will close about 200 stores - including 35 in California - and lay off about 6,000 workers.

This is a sad day, as I lived in Ann Arbor for 10 years and have lived in Michigan for 22 years, so I consider Borders to be my hometown ( Read more... )

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Examiner.com: Cook's Source Magazine scandal: When David becomes Goliath
By Chris Griffy, Business Trends Examiner

For those who haven't heard the story, it has all of the hallmarks of a good story in any media. It contains a traditional underdog with a self-deprecating style, a cartoonishly sinister big business villain, and the most ridiculously ( Read more... )

Crossposted to ontd_political and awaiting moderation posted here.



CNN Money: Twitter COO: Still not profitable

Dick Costolo, COO of the micro-blogging site explains how Twitter hopes to one day turn tweets into profit.
New York Magazine's Daily Intel Blog has some snarky commentary, which reads as follows.

Dick Costolo, Twitter COO, said the micro-blogging site' ( Read more... )

I wrote for Drum Corps World from 1996-2008, and I can tell you that the activity always wanted attention from the mainstream media. Well, they got it, just in time for their championship this week.

CNN: Trouble at 'Marching Music's Major League'
By Kevin Voigt, CNN

A powerful group of players known as the 'G-7' has sparked tumult amid accusations ( Read more... )

Ad Busters' Buy Nothing Day page

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Let's see if I can follow through with not shopping tomorrow. I'm certainly not going to a Black Friday sale.

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New Geography: Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier
by Aaron M. Renn

The troubles of Detroit are well-publicized. Its economy is in free fall, people are streaming for the exits, it has the worst racial polarization and city-suburb divide in America, its government is feckless and corrupt (though I ( Read more... )