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THE LAS VEGAS BUSINESS PRESS PRESENTS THE TOP STORIES OF 2008 (Las Vegas Business Press) Business Press' Tony Illia was the first reporter allowed into the CityCenter mixed-use project to bring readers a firsthand glimpse of daily life at the nation's largest construction project. END OF THE YEAR: State Supreme Court Says Same-Sex Couples Have Constitutional Right to Marry...Lee Edmon Becomes ... (Metropolitan News-Enterprise) 1- Jean M. Lawler, who became the first female partner at Murchison & Cumming, LLP in 1993, took over as managing partner of the firm. 3-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reappointed Michael Hersek as state public defender....Two denials of parole to a former motorcycle club member by then-Gov. From Wyoming to Broadway, 2008 was a year of change (Forest Lake Times) It was a year of change, progress and the loss of a number of key community members who served the... AIG's rescue has a long way to go (Fortune via Yahoo! Finance) Within insurance giant American International Group, but known to only a few people, is something irreverently called the "kill list." Weather makes employers make payroll decisions (South Sound Business Examiner) It's what some are calling the storm of the decade and it seems out of place in the Puget Sound. Unfortunately, the storm is here and businesses are having to make unfamiliar payroll decisions.For example, should employees who can't leave their houses due to the snow be docked a day's pay? Must the employer treat salaried and hourly employees differently? Are employees allowed to make up work ... events calendar (Visalia Times-Delta / Tulare Advance-Register) "Burn After Reading" (three stars) is one of those strange comedies from Joel and Ethan Coen that is surprising, funny, head-scratching and shocking. Clark County's vilification a testament to penny wise, pound foolish (Las Vegas Review-Journal) The arbitration decision that concluded Clark County bore the bulk of the blame for the construction fiasco known as the Regional Justice Center paints a dismaying picture of short-sighted decisions dogging the project from start to finish with one main goal: How do we do it on the cheap? BI Boost: Conquering Massive Data Sets With MapReduce (E-Commerce Times) Internet-scale data sets and Web-scale analytics have placed a different set of requirements on software infrastructure and data processing techniques. More types of companies and organizations are seeking new inferences and insights across a variety of massive data sets -- some into the petabyte scale. ILW.COM - immigration news: Temporary Agricultural Employment of H-2A Aliens in the United States; Modernizing the ... (Immigration Portal) [Federal Register: December 18, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 244)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 77109-77158] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr18de08-20] [[Page 77109]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Part II Department of Labor ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Employment and ... State diciplines health care professionals (South Sound Business Examiner) The state Department of Health has revoked or suspended the licenses, certifications or registrations of health care providers in Washington. The department has also immediately suspended the credentials of people who have been prohibited from practicing in other states. In Lewis County, the state summarily suspended the license of pharmacist Alvin Fitzgerald. His license to practice pharmacy ...
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