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General Motors to Close Baltimore Assembly Plant Next Year
Tuesday, November 16, 2004"PONTIAC, Mich. -- The discontinuance of the Chevrolet Astro and GMC Safari next year means the General Motors assembly plant in Baltimore will close as well, GM officials announced yesterday. GM currently employs approximately 1,000 hourly and 100 salaried employees at the Baltimore plant. The United Auto Workers/GM National Agreement provides a comprehensive plan and provisions for the GM employees affected by the decision. UAW Local 239 represents the plant's hourly work force.
Cut Phone Cord Without Cutting Service
Tuesday, November 16, 2004"VERNON HILLS, Ill. -- A growing number of consumers are dropping their telephone landlines for wireless as cellular calling packages become increasingly attractive and network reliability continues to improve. This year, 14.4% of U.S. consumers are using a wireless phone as their primary phone, and nearly one third of all U.S.
Points of View
Tuesday, November 16, 2004"Alternative History Asks, 'What If?'Our serious historian's response, 'So what?'The Plot Against America. By Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin Co., 400 pp., $26). Charles A. Lindbergh was one of the most beloved Americans in the 20th century: The heroic aviator who accomplished the first solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. Husband of the poet Anne Morrow Lindbergh who suffered the excruciating kidnapping and death of their first-born son in the spring of 1932. A champion of modern industry, saluted by the Nazis for praising German technology.
Journal Opinion
Tuesday, November 16, 2004"The Spoils of DefeatIf President George W. Bush and Mahoning County commissioners have anything in common, it's that both face similar challenges in bringing together divided electorates as they address the challenges they face.Despite winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College, Bush has the responsibility of leading a nation nearly as divided as when he took office. Nearly half of those who went to the polls cast votes against him -- hardly the "mandate" his supporters claim.
Success Story
Tuesday, November 16, 2004"Score Guides Small Companies to Viability'They made me realize I could start a business,' says Paul Gaydosh.Score, the Service Corps of Retired Executives at Youngstown State University, can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. But its 35 members can, and do, help small-business owners transform raw silk into silk purses.From 9 to 11 a.m.
Rendell Outlines ACRE Initiative to Farm Bureau
Tuesday, November 16, 2004"HERSHEY, Pa. -- Pennsylvania's proposed Agricultural, Communities and Rural Environment initiative was outlined by Gov. Edward G. Rendell at yesterday's 54th annual meeting of the Pennsylvlania Farm Bureau. The initiative emphasizes negotiation rather than litigation in local disputes over changing farm operations.The ACRE initiative includes new farm-management regulations that are substantially broader than federal regulations, encompassing more farms and farm types, and puts in place some of the most comprehensive environmental protections in the nation, Rendell said.
Ohio Forms Marketing Partnership to Boost Development
Tuesday, November 16, 2004COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A new statewide, nonprofit marketing partnership called the Ohio Business Development Coalition is getting $8.1 million from the Ohio Department of Development, according to Bruce E. Johnson, ODOD director. The primary objective of the coalition is to provide the department and regional development organizations with qualified business development leads and effective tools to retain and expand Ohio companies and attract new companies to Ohio.
Guild, Vindy Bargain Briefly; No Progress to End Strike"
Tuesday, November 16, 2004By Andrea WoodYOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- A two-hour meeting Tuesday afternoon between leaders of the striking union and management at The Vindicator brought no progress to end the day-old strike at the Mahoning Valley's largest newspaper. "We accomplished nothing -- absolutely nothing," said Anthony Markota, president of Local 34011 of the Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America. "We made a counter offer.
Forge Consensus Minus Boundaries, Penn Northwest Told"
Tuesday, November 16, 2004By Hal Johnson GREENVILLE, Pa., -- A self-confessed election junkie, Larry Segal, executive director of the Governor's Housing and Community Revitalization, watched Mercer County's Web site as the votes came in against the consolidation in the Shenango Valley. Voters defeated a referendum that would have merged Sharon, Hermitage, Farrell, Sharpsville, and Wheatland."You have to do this as a region," Segal said at last night's annual meeting of Penn-Northwest Development Corp., held at Thiel College.
$3.5 Million in Third Frontier Fuel Cell Program Grants
Tuesday, November 16, 2004WESTERVILLE, Ohio -- Gov. Bob Taft joined local officials and fuel cell industry experts yesterday to dedicate one of the nation's first utility-scale fuel cell power plants, located at a substation in here. The AMP-Ohio/City of Westerville Commercial Fuel Cell Demonstration project, a 2003 Third Frontier Project grant recipient, is a fuel cell power plant substation designed to feed power directly into a local distribution for general consumption, which will provide enough electricity to power more than 180 homes in the City of Westerville, Taft said.