Georgia Government Jobs News
- GRISWOLD: E-Verify threatens American jobs and liberties Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:07PMIf you are an unemployed American, Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas has a job waiting for you. We only need to find and deport the 7 million unauthorized immigrants who are now mowing lawns, scrubbing toilets, frying hamburgers, plucking chickens, slaughtering cattle and picking onions and lettuce across America. To ...
- Georgia Secretary of State makes quick visit to Wayne, stops at Chamber, probate office Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 1:35PMElections were the topic of discussion Tuesday as Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp visited the Wayne County Courthouse. Kemp stopped to meet with Probate Judge Tammy Thornton, left, and Chief Registrar Kay Arnold, right, during a brief visit to Jesup.
- Departments of Energy, Defense Partner to Install Fuel Cell Backup Power Units at Eight Military Installations Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:20AMWashington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that as part of an interagency partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to strengthen American energy security and develop new clean energy technologies, DOD will be installing and operating 18 fuel cell backup power systems at eight military installations across the country.
- Port CEO Paul Anderson: ‘We’re making generational decisions’ Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:47AMPaul Anderson recently completed six months on the job as CEO of the Jacksonville Port Authority.
- Jenkins alumni battle spread of HIV in Africa Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 9:19PMLaRon E. Nelson’s was 12 years old when he learned his estranged grandfather was dying. “They didn’t call it HIV,” said Nelson, remembering family conversations about the grandfather he never knew. “I remembered that people were getting this disease, like Rock Hudson and Magic Johnson. And how I understood it was that this guy, my grandfather, had also contracted this disease and was dying ...
- Letters to the Editor: July 19, 2011 Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 3:00PMHere are letters to the editor from recent editions of the Daily News
- BUZ LIVINGSTON: Debt, deficits and demographics — our 3D dilemma Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:39PMAfter all of the jacks are in the boxes and the clowns have all gone to bed, Congress will increase the debt ceiling. On the other hand, Democrats negotiate ala the Chicago Cubs when they traded Lou Brock to the Cardinals. I cringe when I see Elvis...
- Forum Focuses On Job Creation Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:48AMGov. Nathan Deal will host the second meeting of his Georgia competitiveness initiative, which focuses on job creation and a statewide economic development strategy. The meeting will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in Atlanta at the Georgia Tech Conference Center. The initiative is being coordinated...
- Gov. Deal to hold 2nd competitivness meeting Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:06AMATLANTA — Gov. Nathan Deal will host the second meeting of his Georgia competitiveness initiative, which focuses on job creation and a statewide economic development strategy.
- Ga. Gov. Deal to hold 2nd competitiveness meeting Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:31AMGov. Nathan Deal will host the second meeting of his Georgia competitiveness initiative, which focuses on job creation and a statewide economic development strategy.
- Spending up in local economy, taxes show Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:32PMSales tax revenues to counties around the region are rebounding from 2009 recession lows, a reflection of increased economic activity and, in some cases, rising prices.Most see the trend as an optimistic sign that consumers are loosening their purse strings as they get on more comfortable financial footing.
- Sheriff, former jail administrator facing off Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:26PMFormer Chatham County jail Administrator McArthur Holmes and Sheriff Al St Lawrence will be running against each other in the 2012 race for sheriff. Holmes says that’s why he was forced to retire last month, but insists he hadn’t decided whether he would run when St Lawrence told him he had to leave. St Lawrence doesn’t dispute that Holmes was fired because of his political ambitions. He says ...
- Letters to the Editor: July 16, 2011 Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 3:00PMHere are letters to the editor from recent editions of the Daily News
- Meredith Whitney Loses Credibility as Muni Defaults Fall 60% Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 7:03AMTime is running out on the credibility of Meredith Whitney, who has yet to acknowledge that her eight-month-old prediction of widespread defaults this year in the market for state and local government debt is proving unfounded.
- Should parents lose custody of super obese kids? Some doctors say yes Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 6:00AMShould parents lose custody of super obese kids? Some doctors say yes
- Biden’s White House Influence Seen From Stimulus to Debt Talks Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:24AMOn the campaign trail, Republicans are reviving attacks on the Obama administration’s $830 billion stimulus package. It’s a debate Vice President Joe Biden, who oversaw the program, won’t shy away from.
- Muni Default Plunge Belies Whitney as Borrowers Shun Insolvency Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 9:47PMTime is running out for Meredith Whitney’s municipal-market default prediction to come true.
- Red Fields to Green Fields Proposed for 11 Cities Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 11:59PM, July 12, 2011 (ENS) - With thousands of commercial buildings in foreclosure and many others in disrepair, cities around the country are looking for ways to rescue the properties and eliminate community blight.
- EPA Grants Fund Low Income Projects, Training Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 11:17PMEPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced on July 12 that her agency is giving $6.2 million to train unemployed people in poor neighborhoods in remediation, green building, and pollution reduction jobs.
- Hundreds protest privatization proposals Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 11:12PMA stream of Frederick County employees appeared before the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday evening at a packed public hearing where most speakers voiced strong opposition to large-scale outsourcing of government services
- Should parents of obese kids lose custody? Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 9:16PMFoster care is preferable to surgery, experts say.
- 12 OYS: States cut Medicaid; will federal government follow? Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 4:47AMBoth Georgia and South Carolina have slashed the Medicaid budget, and one group says possible federal cuts could further strain states.
- Business could bring jobs to Salina Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 3:48AMSalina is in the running for an aircraft maintenance facility that would bring a number of "good-paying" jobs to town that could give Salina and the area a significant economic jolt.
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- Film incentive program not a priority in times of tight budgets Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 11:42PMOne of the casualties of the 2011 state budget deficit was an incentive program to draw motion picture and commercial filming to Washington.
- No vote for EDF addition Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 9:18PMThe Athens-Clarke Economic Development Foundation has added a county commissioner to its board, but he will not be able to vote.
- Shocked by Kelly closure order, city scrambled to save jobs Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 4:07PMshare: digg facebook twitter Gen. Paul Roberson was back in command, this time running a “war room” for a local task force that aimed to save Kelly AFB. After the bad news broke in 1995 that Kelly had been marked for closure and a stunned city wondered what to do next, Roberson and other community leaders had few clues for resolving a big problem. Hours after the decision, then-Mayor Bill ...
- Be a Patriot, Hire an Illegal Immigrant Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 8:36PMU.S. immigration laws make little economic or moral sense, says Charles Kenny. So why punish the brave citizens who break them?
- Talks may mend rift over A-C jobs group Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 10:49PMFormer Mayor Doc Eldridge created the Athens-Clarke Economic Development Foundation 11 years ago with the intent of taking politics out of job creation.
- Tom Humphrey: Sales tax quandary disunites the states Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 9:00PMIn declaring last week plans to take a leadership role in urging a national solution to a state revenue problem, Gov. Bill Haslam was not plowing new ground.
