Plumbers Union Pressured To Raise Rates
A local union meets while speculation swirls that their national organization could end up costing Volkswagen millions of dollars and send them looking out...

A drain on plumbers: Friday is busiest day of year for their services | By Pamela Dickman Loveland Reporter-Herald
The day after Thanksgiving means leftovers ? turkey, potatoes, gravy, deviled eggs ? to treat the tummy. For plumbers, those treats mean clogged drains and one of the busiest weekends of the year, according to several local plumbers.

Plumbers profit from overstuffed disposals / Thanksgiving Day clogs, cooks' impatience fatten workers' wallets
OGDEN -- Plumbers dream of potato peels, turkey fat, rice and especially pasta for Thanksgiving because those culinary delights make their phones ring the next day.

Plumbers root for Thanksgiving clogs
Black Friday has another meaning for plumbers -- it's their busiest of the year after the food-heavy get-togethers stop up disposals and pipes.

Day After Thanksgiving Busy For Plumbers in Kennewick
Plumbers get a lot of calls for clogged sinks and sewers. Plumbers say you don't want to be putting your chunky left overs down the garbage disposal, because it could get backed up.

Demand For Plumbers Up After Thanksgiving Holiday
The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers. Apparently homeowners are also in need of assistance.

Black Friday for Plumbers Too
North Texas plumbers say the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is among their busiest.

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Putnam lawmakers are considering a bill that would require plumbers, electricians and others who are licensed or registered in the county to use the federal E-Verify program to ensure that their newly hired employees have authorization to work in the U.S.

Plumbers: unsung heroes of the holidays
All the work it takes to put on a Thanksgiving feast also creates work for others. For local plumbers, Thanksgiving is one of the busiest days of the year.

Ten Jobs Unlikely To Be Outsourced Announced
The Department of Labor estimates that since 2000, nearly a million American jobs have been outsourced to other countries, but the agency said some positions are less likely to be shipped overseas.

Paulson Bucks Paulson as His Hedge Funds Score $1 Billion Gain
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- There?s not a lot of light in Paulson & Co.?s 28th-floor headquarters on a drizzly November afternoon. The Alexander Calder sculpture and multicolored prints have been shipped to the firm?s new offices six blocks south. Darkness envelops the New York skyline.

State board keeps its eye on unlicensed plumbers
Unlicensed plumbers can create potential health hazards for you and your neighbors.

Thanksgiving grinch steals copper from dentist's office
WESTMINSTER - Sometime over the Thanksgiving holiday, a thief stole every inch of copper tubing from the crawl space under a dentist's office.

State board keeps its eye on unlicensed plumbers
By DARREN BARBEE Unlicensed plumbers beware: The state is tough on handymen who think they know a thing or two about plumbing but don?t have the credentials to back it up. The Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners aggressively pursues unlicensed plumbers, slapping them with thousands of dollars in fines. That?s because shoddy work, such as an improperly installed water line, can contaminate ...

`Neighborhood Celebration' at Olive Avenue Market
REDLANDS - A "Neighborhood Celebration" is planned Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Olive Avenue Market, 530 W.

O.C. real estate loses fewer jobs than other sectors
Real estate related companies cut 16,100 jobs in October but job loss in other areas was 18,700.

Union Leader Does Not Believe VW Jobs Will Go Elsewhere
A local union meets amidst speculation that their national organization may try to cost Volkswagen millions of dollars.

London close: Surge on Wall Street lifts London
LONDON (SHARECAST) - With a little bit of help from a buoyant US market, London?s blue-chips reversed earlier losses to finish predominantly higher. Part-nationalised bank Royal Bank of Scotland was the day?s best performer after US broker Merrill Lynch resumed coverage with a ?buy? recommendation and a price target of 93p.

News and views on Linux on the desktop ...
MEPIS jumps on 2.6.27 ? Oct. 20, 2008 ? Only ten days after the release of Linux 2.6.27 , the SimplyMEPIS project has decided to work the new kernel into its next release. The project today used the kernel in both 32- and 64-bit versions of the third beta release of SimplyMEPIS 8. ...

News and views on Linux on the desktop ...
Lightweight, Linux-compatible browser evolves ? Oct. 16, 2008 ? The eight-year-old Dillo project has released version 2.0 of its Linux-compatible, ultra-lightweight HTML browser for embedded systems, antiquated PCs, and other low-powered devices.