How To Know When the Pink Slip Is Coming
13 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Life Changes Tags: "at will employment", employers, employment, legal
I’m willing to bet that each of us has experienced ‘the boot’ at least once in our career for whatever reason. Most employment is ‘at will’ so you can fire your boss ‘at will’ just as easily as they can fire you ‘at will.’ However, their way of doing it is an attempt to avoid law suit and unemployment benefit payout. So use caution.
Great article – check it out at Reader’s Digest online: What Your HR Person Won’t Tell You About Being Fired
Penalties for Getting Old-er
19 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
in Cogitations Tags: aarp michigan, michigan, pensions, retirement tax, taxes
Thought your retirement income and pensions were tax free? Read it and weep.
My grandmother was right when she told me years ago that there’s only two things in this world that you can never get out from under. Bills and taxes. So she was going to gift both to me in her will. 
yah, a family joke. Or is it?
AARP Michigan: Repeal ‘Unfair’ Pension Tax
November 19, 2011 8:27 AM
LANSING (WWJ/AP) - The Michigan Supreme Court has given the thumbs up to a new tax on pensions.
“Retirees had based their retirement plans on the no-tax status of pensions, and that’s why it’s unfair,” said Hornbeck.
Now, the AARP is pressing the State Legislature to overturn the new tax on public and private pensions.
“Not only are we talking about a pension tax in the State of Michigan, the discussion in Washington has been over possible cuts to social security and Medicare, so they’re sort of facing a triple threat,” said Hornbeck
Frick and Frack – Oklahoma Quakes
14 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
in Cogitations Tags: earthquakes, fracking, largest recorded earthquake
Interesting article on what might be behind (or underneath) the reason for Ok’s quake(s) in recent years.
Did Fracking Cause Oklahoma’s Largest Recorded Earthquake?
Serratia marcescens on a roll
11 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
in Cogitations Tags: bacterium, miraculous microbes, serratia marcescens
Answers a few questions and still leaves us stumped at the same time. Good article / education.
Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
03 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
in Cogitations Tags: keystone xl, sierra club, stop the keystone xl pipeline, white house
“The extraction of tar sands oil will decimate large areas of forest and bird habitat that will be lost forever. An area the size of Florida will become a wasteland full of toxic lakes that are so large they can be seen from space.
Keystone XL would deepen our dependence on oil and further escalate climate change in North America.”
“The Keystone XL pipeline will carry up to 900,000 barrels per day of the world’s dirtiest oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
On November 6th, thousands of us will encircle the White House to tell President Obama that he needs to reject this dirty oil pipeline proposal.
We know that many of you cannot be in DC with us but share our conviction to stop the Keystone XL pipeline.”
“The Keystone XL pipeline extends 1,700 miles across America posing a direct threat to our land, air, and water as well as the health and livelihoods of our communities. The pipeline crosses the Ogallala aquifer, which provides 30% of our agricultural water and drinking water to 2 million Americans. Our nation has experienced the real impacts of our addiction to fossil fuels with multiple oil spills still affecting communities and habitat today – any break in the pipeline could have devastating effects.”
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