December 21, 2009
Alabama
By Dawn Kent — The Birmingham News
Unemployment fell in metro Birmingham and across Alabama last month, but experts caution that the decline doesn’t signal a true turnaround in the state’s slumping job market.
Metro Birmingham’s jobless rate for November was 9.5 percent, down from 9.9 percent in October, the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations said Friday.
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December 9, 2009
Alabama
By David White — The Birmingham News
Key Democratic senators today blasted Gov. Bob Riley as a hypocrite, saying state government has issued more than $2 billion in unbid contracts while he’s been governor even though he campaigned against unbid contracts in 2002.”Now we know those were simply words, not deeds,” state Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe.But Riley’s [...]
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