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 [...]
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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 [...]
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