Retailers enter the hiring season
Tis the season to be hiring. Local retailers are hiring seasonal help to get them through what is expected to be a slightly better holiday shopping season than last year. For Margaret Hutcheson, owner of Horsin Around at Pony Village Mall, this seas...
 3.9K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 389.0 EU feels employment pinch
PARIS (AP) Despite signs of an economic revival gathering pace around the globe, the millions of people laid off are unlikely to see relief any time soon as joblessness is still climbing in many of the world s largest economies. The European Union ...
1.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 64.0 Hitting 10 percent
WASHINGTON (AP) The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 and is likely to go higher. Nearly 16 million people can t find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended. Man...
7.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 168.0 Dems push for health care votes
WASHINGTON House Democrats are scrambling to secure enough support to pass President Barack Obama s historic health overhaul initiative, working to soothe last-minute concerns from rank-and-file Democrats ahead of a make-or-break vote. Voting is se...
3.7K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 64.0 Obama to sign jobless benefit
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers...
4.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 389.0 New therapists bring skills to area
Cory Dorland made an offer that John Bain and John Soukup just couldn t refuse. At least that is how Southwest Physical Therapy s two newest physical therapists feel about the situation. Bain, who relocated from California, joined the therapy center ...
2.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 64.0 Holiday outlook improves as jobs, spending rally
The Associated Press The U.S. economy yielded some encouraging news today on two of its biggest trouble spots consumer spending and jobs. Consumers, enticed by cooler weather and an improving economy, spent a little more in October. They gave the ...
1.7K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 102.0 Congress set to clear aid to jobless, homebuyers
WASHINGTON (AP) The House is poised to send the White House a bill extending aid to more than a million people in danger of exhausting jobless benefits and additional tax credits for prospective homebuyers crucial to rejuvenating the housing market...
3.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 64.0 10,000 children benefit from health plan
SALEM More than 10,000 children have been added to the state health plan under a new law aimed at expanding health insurance coverage to nearly every child in Oregon, officials said Tuesday. Cathy Kaufmann, manager of the program, said the sign-ups...
2.1K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 64.0 Hang up and drive law comes Jan. 1
SALEM As of Jan. 1, you can get slapped with a $90 fine if you use a hand-held cell phone while driving in Oregon. Will that be enough to encourage motorists to keep their full attention on the road? And how well can the law be enforced? Orego...
6.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 64.0 Liberals likely to accept compromise on health care
WASHINGTON (AP) They may not like it, but many House liberals look ready to accept a compromise health care bill, putting Democratic leaders well on the way to delivering on President Barack Obama s call for overhaul. After claiming for months they...
5.1K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 102.0 Flat income raises concern
WASHINGTON (AP) Flat incomes suggest more weakness ahead in consumer spending, reinforcing concerns about a ho-hum holiday shopping season and a sluggish economic recovery. This recovery is going to be very weak. Consumers are in no position or moo...
4.0K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 64.0 Airport names director
The Coos County Airport District board has selected a new director to head the North Bend airport. Theresa Cook will begin at the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport in December, bringing with her 14 years of experience in airport management. District ...
1.8K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 64.0 Stimulus creating jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama s economic stimulus plan, the White House said today, saying it is on track to reach the president s goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year. New jo...
2.0K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 64.0 Don't mess up a good program
Social Security is a glossy piece of paper on which nearly every politician wants to finger-paint an agenda. But Social Security has no need of ornament. It is a very grown-up program. Come January, for the first time since 1975, Social Security paym...
3.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 64.0 House unveils health reform
WASHINGTON After months of struggle, House Democrats unveiled sweeping legislation today to extend health care coverage to millions who lack it and create a new option of government-run insurance. A vote is likely next week on the plan patterned cl...
6.0K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 102.0 A fresh beginning
NORTH BEND A few hours a week delivering newspapers, handing out tickets or cleaning a sandwich shop may hardly sound like self-esteem boosters, but to people dealing with mental health issues, holding on to a part-time job is a big deal. Having a...
4.3K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 430.0 LeRoy V. Geroux
Due to a family illness, a memorial service is pending for LeRoy V. Geroux, 84, of Reedsport at the Powers Cemetery. LeRoy was born on July 15, 1925, in Roseau, Minn. He died Oct. 22, 2009, at the Life Care Center in Coos Bay. He was a veteran of Wor...
1.3K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 64.0 Recession is over, but job losses aren't
WASHINGTON It s about to become official: The recession is over but not the pain. The government will release figures this week expected to show that the economy has awakened from its deepest slump since the 1930s and is in the early stages of a ...
6.2K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 64.0 Questions surface in Astoria LNG probe
ASTORIA (AP) When liquefied natural gas developer Peter Hansen met Port of Astoria Director Peter Gearin and marketing consultant Susan Trabucco in San Jose, Calif., in October 2004, there was a moment when Hansen thought the two might be more than...
6.6K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 102.0 | 
