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...Christmas and the Packers with a problem: Lambeau Field had to be cleared to prepare it for the National Football Conference divisional playoff game on Jan. 4. So Ted Eisenreich, the Packers' buildings supervisor, did what he usually does in similar situations. He put out the word in the mill town of 96,466 that he needed 200 shovelers to dig out the field at $6 an hour. Dozens had to be turned away, while still others offered to work for free. "I don't want the money," a 50-year-old Packer fan told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...
...have stayed are increasingly going organic, not for religious reasons but because they have found that the public will buy any product that contains the words Amish and organic because it seems extra wholesome. Though a little less so when you realize your organic millet was made in a mill where workers were barely paying attention, Rollerblading around, gabbing on their Amish party lines. "Oh, no, you didn't, Jebediah! No man can drink that much buttermilk and keep his beard so silky clean...
There is little economic diversification in rural areas; hence, the economy becomes dependent upon a small number of large employers. Reminiscent of the old mill towns in New England, many southern towns formed around manufacturing centers. Then came outsourcing, and with outsourcing, the closure of numerous factories. Factory closures led to layoffs, and layoffs dealt devastating blows to rural economies, many of which have such low education levels and wages that they fail to draw in new, well-paying businesses. Unemployment payments are only a temporary respite for those who cannot afford to move to where the jobs have gone...
...advantage of a large class is that students share a common intellectual experience. Discussions of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant spill out of Sanders Theater into the Houses and dining halls,” he wrote in an e-mail...
...June 24: 9:56 p.m.—An officer was dispatched to Mill Street because of an alleged “simple” assault that had just occurred in front of Quincy Gate. The victim alleges that he or she was touched in the area of the chin, following a dispute concerning parking. A report was filed...