My Husband Needs a Job Website helps a wife help her husband

Myhusbandneedsajob.com is a new site that helps wives help their husbands find a job. The site was created by a woman in California after watching her husband desperately try to find a job. " "I grew frustrated. He has been sending out resumes since he graduated but nothing...

10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009

'social media today is a pure mess.' ""Social media" was the term du jour in 2008. Consumers, companies, and marketers were all talking about it. We have social media gurus, social media startups, social media...

Bosses hiring diet police to stop office workers piling on the pounds

I wonder if NowPublic will start hiring these Weight Watchers and have mandatory weekly weigh-ins. Looking around the office now, we definitely do not need one of these and it would be a total waste of money. It...

Mexico probes online 'hitmen ads'

"Mexican police are investigating a number of classified ads on the internet which purport to be from hitmen offering the services. The ads can be found alongside ones for private tuition or domestic help. In one of them, a person describing himself as an ex-military killer...

'lyingeyes98@yahoo.com' guilty of murder conspiracy

In Ireland this crime is unique but I am willing to bet that anyone anywhere would consider it to be very unusual. It would make a great film script."The jury in the Ennis murder conspiracy trial has returned a verdict on some of the charges. Sharon Collins, who had denied...

U.S. Embassy staff, soldiers killed in Baghdad blast

At least 10 people are dead after a bomb exploded in a municipal building in Sadr City on Tuesday. Six Iraqis, Two US soldiers and two civilian US Embassy employees were killed after a blast went off during a meeting of the district advisory council. The deputy head of the...

Landmark move to outlaw ageism

In a land where old people will soon outnumber young by many to one this has to be good news! " Elderly people should no longer be denied NHS treatment, credit cards, travel insurance or even car hire because of their age, under government plans to outlaw age...

London: One Killed in Tower Bridge Bus Crash

One person has been killed and several injured in a bus crash this morning near Tower Bridge in London."The accident, involving a route 188 bus, happened at the junction of Tower Bridge Road and Tanner Street at...

Murdoch's WSJ Changes Creates Opening for NYT

An interesting analysis from Barry L. Ritholtz on the opportunities open to news organizations like the NYTimes now that Murdoch is shaking up the WSJ.  "Murdoch's changes are both ambitious and perplexing:...

At Least 300 Workers Taken From Chicken Factories, Company Not Facing Any Cha...

At least 300 workers have been arrested in chicken factories in Texas."Federal agents arrested hundreds of people in raids at Pilgrim's Pride chicken plants in five states, the latest crackdown on illegal immigrant labor at the nation's poultry producers.In separate sweeps...

Army of Ohio attorneys battle foreclosures pro bono

"COLUMBUS -- Ohio's top government officials announced a new weapon for battling the state's foreclosure crisis on Tuesday and its army is comprised of at least 1,100 Ohio attorneys. The Save the Dream...

Katrina victims may have to repay money

The residents of New Orleans are still trying to rebuild their lives after Hurricane Katrina, and now it seems as if their situation is going to get even worse.The residents who were given a federal grant to...

What happens after you stand by your man?

You have to feel sorry for Silda Spitzer.  She's now suffered 3 times:  first her husband's betrayal, then the public humiliation and now the judgement of blogosphere and others.  Is there a right way of handling this? "-- Don't decide immediately whether to...

Spitzer 80G Hooker Tab; When you hire a pro ...

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly Spitzers Tab assumed to be as much as $80,000 worth of Tang, certainly shows Good Time Eliot, was giving it as good as it gets, giving New York Taxpayers...

House Panel Questions High Pay for CEOs

Like the oil company profits last year, it's another situation of individuals making a lot of money in sectors experiencing trouble."The heads of three companies implicated in the mortgage crisis have been asked to explain how they collectively received hundreds of millions...
 

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