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Judge Mangieri Reelected By Running Clean Positive Campaign

I am really glad that Judge Mangieri was reelected. It is nice to see someone who runs a clean positive campaign reelected. James Standard ran a very negative campaign, spending his ad revenues misrepresenting Judge Mangieri's record. I hope we can see the last of the nasty, negative campaigning made infamous by the Bush family duo. Negative campaigning, which is often based on half-truths blown out of proportion, is nothing different than gossip and office whisper campaigns only less reliable.

Typography, The Letters Do Matter!

Reading text on a computer screen is different than on paper. Different computer screens may have different resolutions. A web page may have a different appearance on every computer is viewed on. Web pages are made up of hypertext. Hypertext is a document in electronic format. Documents on the web are linked by hyperlinks; this is how pages are transversed on the World Wide Web.
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Galesburg’s Free On-line Bulletin Board

Ever see one of those cork boards like the one at Giant Foods or the Broadview Restaurant? There would be business cards thumb tacked all over the place. This is kind of a nice free way for businesses to advertise but it is kind of hard to find what you want this way. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just type in what you want and several things would come up and you could just choose which one you wanted. What if you do all this from the comfort of your own home. Well you can do that here.
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What Happened To All The Donut Shops?

Remember how many donut shops we used to have? Lets see there was one on Grand Ave near the Laundromat. Both are gone now. The one on Broad and Fremont is still there but doesn’t seem to as busy as it once was.

Why Your Business Needs A Blog

What is a blog

The word blog comes the words web and log. It is a report or journal that is periodically updated like a kind of diary. Only they are intended to read by everyone. Readers can respond to blogs and they can become ongoing conversations.

Make Sure It Is A Job Offer Not A Sales Presentation

Remember the old envelope stuffing scam? They were not hiring people; they were selling envelopes or something. If it sounds to good to be true than it is. How about the ad which proclaims how much postal jobs pay and gives the their phone number as if they were hiring postal employees. After answering this ad you would find they were selling preparation tests in order to pass the test for potential postal employees. Your local post office may not even be hiring. Here again they are selling classes not hiring.

Since The Galesburg Maytag Closed

Since Maytag closed there have been numerous folks in Galesburg and surrounding cities that have started a small business either by themselves or with a group of people. Often this business is service oriented. There were already many talented people here in Galesburg who worked at various skill levels offering their time and talent for hire. People wanting this service did not know it was available because these independent contractors often have to rely on word of mouth for their next customer.

What Is A Golden Parachute?

A golden parachute is a very large bonus given to a person usually a company executive or CEO when they are replaced. These are often very controversial since the executive is often replaced because the company is going under or lost lot money in the past years. These executives often have salaries in the millions and so are destitute by no means.

Washington Mutual the largest bank to fail in history was taken over by the FDIC September 25, 2008. CEO Alan Fishman who had been on the job only 17 days was given severance pay of 11.6 million for those few days.

What Is Disparate Impact?

An act that has disparate impact is an act, which has an unequal affect on a specific group. If one or more supervisors spend a greater amount of time supervising people over the age of 55, this is definitely an act of desperate impact on the group of people over 55. These actions would have a greater impact the group of people over 55 than on the rest of the employee population.

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