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“It’s definitely a cult.”: U.S. Christian Rapture, July 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. Christian shutdowns, layoffs and Rapture oddities for the Gregorian (western christian calendar) month of July 2018.

ALABAMA: Man reportedly admits to 5 church burglaries

local missionaries stuck in Haiti during riots

man arrested for reaching for gun at church

East Walnut Baptist closing

ALASKA: Another case of evil NIMBY as Residents fed up with homeless camp near Central Lutheran Church

ARIZONA: Dust storm starts church fire in Mesa

Man found dead in front of Phoenix church

church bus driver accused of molesting young girls

Aggressive man escorted from Avondale church

United Pentecostal Church changes name to First Pentecostal Church

Once zealously controlled by fundamentalist Mormons, a small town tries to rehab its image — with beer

ARKANSAS:  In violation of the U.S. 1st Amendment (religious freedom/freedom of expression) Arkansas Secretary of State objected to The Satanic Temple’s request to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Ten Commandments monument.

150 People Laid Off From Presbyterian founded Walmart Optical Lab

Burglar took van, debit card from church

More than $3000 worth of electronics reported stolen from Little Rock church

Cause of fire that destroyed church unknown

Osceola Church Deacon, Son Among 17 Killed in Missouri Boat accident

Church finds child porn on a man’s computer, there was no explanation of why the ‘church’ was looking at his computer, or even if the man was a member of the church!

Economy so bad that Bentonville church lends hand in providing summer meals for kids

CALIFORNIA: Too Big to Jail Anglican/Episcopalian/Presbyterian co-founded Wells Fargo issued a shutdown WARN for its Irvine ops, 126 jobs gone in August!  Non-profit Bethesda Lutheran Communities issued a shutdown WARN for its Redding location, 34 jobs gone by the end of August.  In Tustin, Trinity Christian Center issued a layoff WARN, 166 jobs gone by the end of September!

Vandalism of North Hollywood Church

Los Olivos landmark church damaged in crash

Bethel Church explains why it didn’t help local wildfire victims

Video of police Shooting That Killed hostage Held at Knife-point in church

Church worker killed by loader

Church Plans to Build Brewery

Economy so bad Hundreds turn to local church for school supplies

COLORADO: Another case of evil NIMBY as church’s attempt to build housing for homeless women is shot down by city residents (most of whom claim to be christians).

Castle Rock neighbors at odds with church construction, because it’ll obstruct the view

Church youth pastor pleads guilty to attempted sex assault

CONNECTICUT:  burglary at Stratford church

‘Mother Church’ is getting a makeover

Lawsuit Filed By Church Against Its Own Rector

DELAWARE:  Priest hospitalized after savage attack inside church

Lawyer Stole $600K From Church During Land Deal

Delaware Missionaries Stranded in Haiti 

‘Christian’ city employees force Muslim Children to Leave taxpayer funded Public Pool Due to Clothing (shows you how far we’ve come, there was a time you’d get kicked out of public pools for skimpy bathing suits)

FLORIDA: Tampa area church youth group stuck in Haiti

After 65 years, St. David’s Episcopal Church in Lakeland may close

Little Havana church to be replaced by apartment building

Officials hit pause on Bayside Church purchase

91 years old man threatens pastor over ex-girlfriend

Man arrested for stealing Florida church van

Civil war as Pentecostal church excommunicates five members for opposing leadership’s worship of money, leadership is also charging the congregation $6-thousand USD for legal fees as well as posting local police to guard the building: “They have the po-po going down there, one on on the east side, one on the west side. Why? We have no clue. Nobody’s ever threatened anybody.”-Patricia Boyd, excommunicated

“The head deacon is packin’ a gun every Sunday.”-Barbara Roberts, excommunicated

Economy so bad Local church gives out back-to-school supplies

GEORGIA: In Lake Park, after 22 years Baptist Village nursing home shutdown, apparently in preparation for sale to the Francis Lake Baptist Church.

Georgia church mission group stuck in Haiti

Alleged church vandal arrested

The House of Hope Atlanta church refuses to dedicate homosexual member’s baby

GUAM: Economy so bad Harvest Baptist Church says school supplies still needed

HAWAII: Honolulu Diocese was a ‘dumping ground for troubled clerics

58 Hawaii priests accused of child sex abuse

Murder suspected in death of man at church

IDAHO: In Mormon dominated School District 25 (aka Chubbuck/Pocatello) students experiencing skyrocketing disciplinary problems“More children were expelled… …and even elementary students got in trouble more often for threats, drug possession and sexual offenses.” 

couple arrested in child abuse case part of faith-healing church

priest’s home gets exorcism following child porn arrest

ILLINOIS:   priest ordered indefinitely to facility for sex offenders 

Fire at vacant downtown Rockford church

INDIANA:   Presbyterian founded Walmart suddenly laid off 108 people from its Optical Lab in Crawfordsville, no warning!

Judge Rules First Church of Cannabis Can’t Use Marijuana

Second member of Church of Jesus Christ appears in court on sex-related charges

“LGBTQ is a hate crime against God. Repent”-Remnant Fellowship Church

landlord evicts church over sign saying ‘LGBTQ is a hate crime’

Church burglar gets 10 years in prison

IOWA:   Church vs. church in a small town split by an immigration raid

KANSAS: church supporting pastor amid child sex crime accusations

Storm causes damage to Ellis Catholic school

KENTUCKY: After 119 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) furniture shop Alles Brothers shutdown by its new owner the Catholic Church.  The store founder died last month and willed the shop to the church.

church revokes memberships for nonattendance

Religious organizations, non-profits subject to new sales tax law

Car crashes into Bourbon Co. church, injuring four members

LOUISIANA: God’s own Loyola University New Orleans suddenly laid off more than 24 people, and suspended its payments into the employee retirement 403(b) plan.  The christian university is dealing with a deficit of more than $25-million USD blamed, in part, to the sudden and unexpected loss of 2-hundred freshmen students back in 2013 (The Rapture?).

Missionaries from area churches stuck in Haiti

Economy so bad Church gives fans to old people to fight global warming

MAINE:  After 141 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) god’s own sexist Maine Girls’ Academy-Saint Elizabeth’s Academy shutdown due to lack of students (The Rapture?).

Economy so bad church filling backpacks for students in need

MARYLAND: Bible Burned Outside Mardela Springs Church

Car Rolls Backward, Kills Woman in Church Parking Lot

Fire damages Funkstown church

church sues city after being prohibited from holding worship services in its coffee shop

“A priest kicked a funeral out of a Maryland church and the family says he disrespected the deceased.”

MASSACHUSETTS: Cardinal Warns Church Amid Sex Abuse Scandal

 Mission Street Church buys St. Joseph Catholic Church

MICHIGAN:  British empire United Kingdom based Salvation Army shutdown its 10 years old thrift store in Coldwater, due to lack of sales.

man electrocuted while power-washing Michigan church

Cash found in ceiling at home of priest accused of theft

State closes Greater Christ Baptist Church Credit Union for ‘unsafe’ practices

Michigan church group stranded in Haiti

MINNESOTA: Mega church pastor resigns after investigation into ‘inappropriate conduct’

Minnesota Churches Are In Steep Decline

CENTRAL MINNESOTA PASTOR ACCUSED OF SEX WITH PARISHIONER

La Salle Lutheran Church reflects declines in attendance

MISSISSIPPI: Benton County church destroyed by fire

Suspects in custody for church vandalism

Police investigate recent church break-ins

MISSOURI: man guilty in church theft case

Fulton church vandals

homicide victim found in alley behind church

City rejects plan to build a new church, for second time

MONTANA: Bishop criticizes priests who attended Trump rally

Montana diocese must identify 27 former clergy as abusers

NEBRASKA: church sues city for blocking expansion plans

Teen reported man groped her at Lincoln church

NEVADA: Las Vegas pastor killed on anniversary trip in Alaska

1 dead, suspect in custody after shooting at Mormon church in Nevada

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  Lightning strikes 186 years old church 

Man Sentenced For Lebanon Church Fire, Stabbings

Anti-Semitic Graffiti Drawn On Church Door 

NEW JERSEY:  Pastor Sentenced to 18 Years in Child Sexual Abuse Case

Woman Accused of Faking Brain Cancer, Conning Baptist Church

NEW MEXICO: Tears from ‘weeping’ Virgin Mary statue? Olive oil

Children break into, vandalize church

Church Arson

NEW YORK:    Islamic State supporting Hobby Lobby shutdown its store in Depew, local news media pointed out that a year ago the ‘christian’ owner of Hobby Lobby swore he was not going to shutdown stores!  Presbyterian founded Walmart issued a shutdown WARN for its White Plains store, 396 jobs gone by November!  God’s own Niagara Catholic Junior/Senior High School shutdown without warning, due to a “significant” reduction in church funding and students (The Rapture?).

The NYC based Episcopal Church debates god’s gender in Book of Common Prayer.

NYC based Episcopal Church considers investing in gun makers as way to covertly eliminate your 2nd Amendment gun Rights!

Man stabbed in front of Spring Valley church

NORTH CAROLINA: Sunday school teacher accused of child sex offenses, “It’s definitely a cult.” says church member

NORTH DAKOTA: Local church leader suddenly dies at age 29

School teacher accused of sex crimes is married to pastor, who was suddenly placed on administrative leave from the River City Church.

OHIO: 1 dead, 10 sick linked to Parma church

Ohio cafe suffers discrimination backlash after openly favoring christian customers

video shows 2 break-ins of the same church

boy drowns at christian camp

OKLAHOMA:  Economy so bad First United Methodist Church conducts “Back to School Blessings” event.

Suspect tries to flush items she stole from Walmart down church toilet

Mormon Church creates new geographical area in Edmond

OREGON: Trinity Church Pastor Admits to ‘Sexually Immoral’ Acts

Church expects weddings to continue after land use dispute

faith-healing couple sentenced to 6 years in prison for baby’s death

Economy so bad Local church braving the heat to build a homeless village 

PENNSYLVANIA:  Bankrupt busted Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) of Greater Pittsburgh shutting down three locations in August, affecting 234 employees!

Catholic Church abuse grand jury report should be public

Massive Fire Rips Through Catholic School

126 years old church burns to the ground

RHODE ISLAND: Deadly duck boat driver in Missouri was co-founder of Olneyville church

SOUTH CAROLINA:  Upstate church vandalism

Episcopal Church asks court to order accounting of assets

“There’s no point in pastoring a sick church full of sick members.”-Reverend Juenarrl Keith

Man with machete threatening to kill churchgoers

SOUTH DAKOTA: Rapid City priest charged with embezzlement, theft

Catholic Church considers declaring sainthood of Lakota leader Black Elk 

church recovering after fire

TENNESSEE: United Methodist Meharry Medical College suddenly laid off 55 people in order “to optimize our resources”.

church group on Haiti mission trip told to shelter in place

pastor charged with trying to rape girl, 12

top official resigns from Tennessee diocese 

TEXAS: Catholic founded Too Big to Jail Bank of America shutting down its office on Midwestern Parkway, in Wichita Falls, by the end of October.

Need money for your church? Pray for a false flag shooting and get $3-million USD in donations.

Driver Facing 270 Years for Church Bus Crash

Woman admits to stealing $67000 from local church alliance

UTAH:   Mission at Bear River Rehabilitation Center shutting down its 40 years old Tremonton location, some employees will move to a new facility near Brigham City.

Illegal immigrant vows to fight for asylum from Utah church

Can The LDS Church Be Blamed For LGBT Suicides?

LDS Church seeks to dismiss sexual abuse case

Man goes on hunger strike to protest “…one-on-one bishop’s interviews with children and youth and to end the use of what he described as sexually explicit questions during those interviews.”  The interviews are really covert interrogations to find out if Mormon youth are sexually active.

VERMONT: revelations against Catholic orphanage; “We saw nuns kill children.”

pastor uses gun to try to catch church burglar, the church has been burgled multiple times 

Church as god to “Forgive the U.S.A.”

VIRGINIA:  Virginia churches join growing  illegal immigrant movement

man accused of sexual abuse while serving as church youth leader

Pastor goes online for video game church

WASHINGTON: Jehovah Witness worship halls targets of organized shootings and fires!

Pastor misconduct complaints rattle Tacoma megachurch

Economy so bad Edmonds church offers safe parking to people living in cars

WASHINGTON DC: Prominent progressive DC church, accused of racism

WEST VIRGINIA: Pastor taken hostage inside Berkeley Springs church

Man threatens missionaries with knife

WISCONSIN:  pentecostal church to be torn down

Police were called to Peace Lutheran Church after people were observed doing illegal drugs

Woman Faces 20 Years in Prison for Embezzling Over $800K From Church

WYOMING: Abuse allegations against retired bishop ‘credible’

U.S. Christian Rapture, June 2018: FIRE AND HONEY BEES…IT’S ‘GOD’S PLAN’!

“No man can work for two masters, for either he will hate one and will love the other, or he will honor one and the other he will ignore. You cannot work for God and for money.”-Matthew 6:24, Aramaic Bible

“But the root of all these evils is the love of money, and there are some who have desired it and have erred from the faith and have brought themselves many miseries.”-1 Timothy 6:10 Aramaic Bible

“And Yeshua [Jesus of Nazareth] entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And he said to them, It is written: ‘My house will be called the House of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.’ “-Matthew 21:12-13 Aramaic Bible

“Yeshua said to them, ‘Give what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God’s to God.’ And they marveled at him.”-Mark 12:17 Aramaic Bible

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.-1st Amendment, U.S. Constitution

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance (or even be counted as unemployed): “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

“We survived Target. We survived Walmart, but we couldn’t survive the road construction…”: U.S. retail/banking/service sector collapse, July 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. retail/banking/service sector job loss WARNings and store shutdowns made or announced in July 2018:

WFMYNews2.com: These 11 retailers may not survive 2018

The Washington Post: Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: After 83 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Zoghby’s Department Store shutdown so the owners can focus on their more profitable commercial real estate business.  After 70 years Friedman’s Fine Jewelry shutdown.

ALASKA:  The last two Blockbuster video stores in the state shutdown.

ARKANSAS: 150 People Laid Off From the Walmart Optical Lab

CALIFORNIA: In San Louis Opisbo, after 45 years Betty’s Fabrics shutdown.  Alaska USA Federal Credit Union issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Apple Valley, 135 jobs gone by the end of August!  Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo issued a shutdown WARN for its Irvine ops, 126 jobs gone in August!  Banc of California eliminated 45 jobs in Santa Ana.  Stearns Lending issued a shutdown WARN for its Santa Ana ops, 136 jobs gone in September!  Airlines Swissport South Africa issued a shutdown WARN for its LAX ops, 829 jobs gone in September! Best Buy issued a shutdown WARN for its Long Beach store, 68 jobs gone by October.   Selma Hote laying off 81 people in September. BMA Car Wash issued a shutdown WARN for its Canoga Park location, 47 jobs gone in September.  In Peteluma, property management company Pyramid Petaluma Management eliminating 89 jobs in September.

FLORIDA: After 30 years, Massachusetts based gas station operator shutdown the only two Cumberland Farms gas stations in Citrus County, as part of the company’s restructuring.  In Tampa Bay, employment agency CareerSource eliminating 130 jobs due to fraud investigation by the federal government!  Menzies Aviation eliminating 21 jobs at Tampa International Airport.

HAWAII: Jack’s Tours shutdown due to crashing tourism caused by the volcano.

IDAHO: In Twin Falls, Elite Health Club forced to shutdown because “The owner of the building was not willing to renew the lease with us.” 

ILLINOIS: New York owned Chicago stock exchange laid off 11 people.  In Rockford, after 48 years Fisher’s Ethan Allen furniture store shutdown. After 72 years, Curtis Brothers Furniture & Mattress shutting down when the inventory is gone.  Famous Footwear shutting down its store in Fairview Heights, at the Lincoln Place Shopping Center.  Graphic designer Schawk issued a layoff WARN, 55 jobs lost to crashing sales. Too Big to Jail JPMorgan Chase issued a shutdown WARN, 53 jobs in Downers Grove gone in September.

INDIANA:  Fleet Services eliminating 25 jobs in Fort Wayne, due to the city not renewing the taxpayer funded contract.   Walmart suddenly laid off 108 people from its Optical Lab in Crawfordsville, no warning!

KENTUCKY: After 119 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) furniture shop Alles Brothers shutdown by its new owner the Catholic Church.  The store founder died last month and willed the shop to the church.

LOUISIANA: In Baton Rouge, after 30 years Classic Jewelers shutdown so the owners can travel.

MICHIGAN: In Saint Johns, after 37 years Radio Shack-Clinton Electronics shutting down in August.  After seven decades Teboe Flourist shutdown due to increased competition.

MINNESOTA: AAA (American Automobile Association) shutdown its office in Mankato, because the lack of customer traffic didn’t “justify it”.  In Rochester, after more than 50 years The Barber’s Hut shutdown.  In Excelsior Mill, after 34 years gift store DB & Company shutdown.  In Alexandria, the owners of the 54 years old Ben Franklin Crafts remember when there was no such thing as minimum wage and they were paid only 25 cents per hour, now they’re forced to shutdown the store they’ve owned since the 1960s, not because of big box competition but because of taxpayer funded gentrification and online shopping: “We survived Target. We survived Walmart, but we couldn’t survive the road construction and we can’t survive the Internet.”-Judy Meyer, co-owner

MISSOURI: Law firm Lathrop Gage shutdown its Springfield office due to all the employees at that office being hired by a competitor!

NEW JERSEY: In Trenton, after 110 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Perlstein Plumbing shutdown blaming online competition, however local news media says the owners of the old-school plumbing store can find plumbing parts faster than a search on Google!  The saddest shopping mall in America, Burlington Center, shutting down by September (when the last store, a Sears, shutdown).  Natirar Resort Development eliminating 160 jobs in September! Toys R Us eliminating 212 jobs in Wayne!

NEW YORK: Islamic State supporting Hobby Lobby shutdown its store in Depew, local news media pointed out that a year ago the ‘christian’ owner of Hobby Lobby swore he was not going to shutdown stores!  NYC based JetBlue warning of mass layoffs due to restructuring.  In Upper West Side-NYC, after 57 years Laytner’s Linen & Home shutdown because in the past few years “business was not good.”  In Gates, after 72 years Becker’s Furniture shutdown so the tired third gen owner can focus on being an author.  Walmart issued a shutdown WARN for its White Plains store, 396 jobs gone by November! Sterling National Bank issued shutdown WARNs for its Melville Financial Center and East Rockaway Financial Center.  Canandaigua Hotel Corporation-Inn on the Lake issued a shutdown warn, 202 jobs gone, supposedly temporarily, due to remodeling!  In Ithica, Vanguard Printing issued a shutdown WARN, 120 jobs gone by the end of October!  Spa Bliss World issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC Lexington Avenue location, 89 jobs gone in September.

NORTH CAROLINA: In Winston-Salem, after 26 years Long Jewelers shutdown due to increasing online competition. Gildan Activewear shutting down its ops in Hildebran, at least 1-hundred jobs gone by mid-September!  It’s blamed on “changes in the marketplace.”

OHIO: DTV-Danny Vegh’s Home Entertainment retailer now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to a lawsuit saying it hasn’t paid back-due rent on stores that were shutdown.  PNC Bank issued a shutdown WARN for its call center, 96 jobs gone by the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.  In Cincinnati, after 80 years Greenhills Barber Shop shutdown due to years of crashing sales, with the final nail being the landlord jacked up the rent.  In Zanesville, after 25 years Then & Now Antiques shutdown, the owner blames gentrification: “…Zanesville needs to save some of its history. People in Ohio and the United States go to Europe to see the old past – we’ve got it here, but we’re tearing it down.”-Shirley Labaki

PENNSYLVANIA: FYE (For Your Entertainment) shutdown its store at the Lycoming Mall.  Battlespace Flight Services suddenly shutdown.  In Greensburg, after more than 30 years Patty Weir’s Paperbacks shutting down in August after failed attempts to sell it, local news media said it was the only book store in town.    Bling Bridal now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and being liquidated, people who had paid for orders were told no orders will be delivered.  After 67 years the Erie Sport Store shutting down when the inventory is gone.  In Wilkes-Barre, British empire Canada owned clothing retailer Lord & Taylor laid off 83 ‘fulfillment center’ workers, this is apparently in addition to the 202 jobs eliminated in April!  In Locust, Palachick’s General Store sold-off due to the owner’s bad health, one loyal customer is old enough to remember when there were no credit cards and credit was based on the honor system, and it obviously worked: “There were times when they would write down what we owed them. We could come and pay them later.”-Cynthia Raugh

SOUTH CAROLINA: In Bennetsville, after 25 years close-out clothier Hi-Lites shutdown with no explanation from the corporate owners.  Jewelry Warehouse shutting down its Harbison location due to not being able to renew the lease.

SOUTH DAKOTA: In Watertown, after 114 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Mahowald’s Hardware is for sale and will shutdown if a buyer is not found soon.

TENNESSEE: Bad health forcing the owner of four years old Clementine’s Women’s Boutique to shut it down.

TEXAS: In El Paso, after 58 years Holland’s Department Store shutdown, the owner said in the 1960s the cost of living was so low, and the economy so good, that his father started the store with only $1-thousand USD, however James Holland said “Business has been tough the last five years…With the internet going on, you have to reinvent the business…Sometimes to reinvent, you have to start from scratch.”  Too Big to Jail Bank of America shutting down its office on Midwestern Parkway, in Wichita Falls, by the end of October.  In Midland, after several decades Terry’s Kids Shoes shutdown due to not being able to compete, even after spending $20-thousand USD remodeling the shop. The owners blamed ‘big box’, online, and even the city of Midland: “…it’s just too hard for a small shop, like us, family-owned, to compete with the big stores and online shopping….The location wasn’t great back here. The city wouldn’t let us put signs up without fining us a ton.”-Marcella Cato, co-owner

VERMONT: In Danby, White’s Fuel Stop now up for sale, asking $175-thousand USD.

VIRGINIA: After more than 97 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Bluefield based Magic Mart  shutting down all 16 stores between now and September, saying “… the difficult economic conditions that continue to persist in the markets we operate in have left the company no other choice.”  In Lynchburg, after four years comic book seller Star Port shutting down in August, blaming online competition.

WASHINGTON: In West Seattle, after 50 years Terjung’s Studio of Gifts shutdown, the owner blames his 88 years of age and crashing sales for his decisions to retire.  What housing market recovery? Kent based online mortgage company The Money Store suddenly laid off 60 people, without warning, executives claim the layoffs are part of their ‘growth’ plan.

WISCONSIN: In Milwaukee, after five years Rusty Sprockets Antiques shutting down in August so the owners can focus on their more profitable coffee shop.  In Superior, Engwall Florists shutdown due to the decision to consolidate stores into fewer locations. In Lake Geneva, after seven years second hand store Chris Ann’s Helping Hands shutdown.  In Madison, after 18 years Capitol Kids shutting down in August, the owner blames the anti-mom & pop attitudes of toy and kids clothing makers/suppliers.  Gold’s Gym shutdown its Waukesha location due to “unsuccessful negotiations regarding its rent structure.”

U.S. RETAIL/BANKING/SERVICE SECTOR COLLAPSE, JUNE 2018: “ANEMIC”

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, JULY 2018: “THE RISE OF BIG BOX STORES”

SEARS KMART DEATH SPIRAL, JULY 2018: “THIS WAS THE SLOWEST ICEBERG HIT.”

U.S. HI-TECH/COMMUNICATIONS BREAKDOWN, JULY 2018: “WE NEED TO GET THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OUT OF THEM.”

U.S. INDUSTRIAL/MINING/LOGISTICS layoffs, JULY 2018: “GET YOUR STUFF IT’S TIME TO LEAVE.”

U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, JULY 2018: TAXES & NEW LAWS PROVE IT’S NO LAND OF THE FREE!

DUMBING DOWN THE U.S.A., JULY 2018: SCHOOL CRIMES SKYROCKETING!

OBAMACARE ACA DEATH SPIRAL, JULY 2018: ‘PHANTOM MEDICAL’ CLAIMS

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, JULY 2018: “A STATE OF NEAR DEATH.”

“the rise of big box stores”: U.S. Food Crisis, July 2018

Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of July, 2018:

Farmers are using artificial intelligence to force cows to be more productive

Goldfish Crackers recalled over salmonella 

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALASKA: We can’t survive more cuts to Alaska king-salmon quota

ARIZONA: In Tucson, after only ten months Classic Spaghetti Western Steakhouse shutdown, the owner saying that even though the food is great the sales are not, and he has other restaurants to worry about.

CALIFORNIA: DW Berry Farms suddenly laid off 380 strawberry pickers, apparently without warning!  The J.M. Smucker Company issued a shutdown WARN for its San Francisco ops, 1-hundred jobs gone by Halloween! Apple Gilroy-Apple By The Bay-Applebee’s issued a shutdown WARN for its Milpitas location, 51 jobs gone in September.   Ingredient provider Ingredion issued a layoff WARN for its Stockton ops, 65 jobs gone by October.  Upscale restaurant Hakkasan issued a shutdown WARN for its West Hollywood location, 99 jobs gone by the end of September.  P.F. Changs issued a shutdown WARN for its El Segundo restaurant, 94 jobs gone by the end of September.    In Vista, after 40 years popular Village Cafe shutdown so the owners can retire.  In Bakersfield, the Sweet Factory shutdown its Vally Plaza Mall location.  Struggling Chipotle shutdown its San Louis Opisbo, Higuera Sreet, location.  Marie Callender’s shutdown its 40 years old ‘flagship’ restaurant in Los Angeles, because the landlord demanded a new lease that doubled the rent!  In San Francisco, after 28 years Castro’s Harvest Ranch Market shutdown, the owner blaming lack of sales and greedy landlords:  “If you can’t make any money, there’s no sense in keeping it open. We did our best and we negotiated with the landlord, and it didn’t work out.”-Gilles Desaulniers

FLORIDA: In Deerfield Beach, after 17 years Marlee’s Diner suddenly shutdown after failed restaurant management deals forced the owner to sell the property to a developer.  Evil Cerberus Capital owned Albertsons-Safeway issued a mass layoff WARN, 452 grocery workers jobless by the end of August!  Food service contractor Aramark issued a mass layoff WARN, 428 jobs in Miami gone in August!  After 34 years Betty’s Laughing Horse Tavern shutdown, the property was sold.

IDAHO: Chipotle shutdown locations in Twin Falls (open less than one year) and Chubbuck (open less than two years).

Farm worker impaled by baling spike

Future Treasure Valley farmers face a tough road

Six wildfires ignited in Boise region, on July 4 holiday

Idaho-based Lamb Weston trying to deliver fries that stay crispy longer

Quigley Farm annexed for major property re-development (gentrification)

ILLINOIS: In Chicago, Howells & Hood Restaurant issued a shutdown WARN, 133 jobs gone by October due to the business being sold!

INDIANA: In Newburgh, after being brought back to life in 2014 Pizza Chef shutdown for good because the owner wants to try a different food venue. In Evansville, after four years Cisse’s Bread Bakery shutting down in August “because of the time the bakery is taking away from family.”  Grocery store Wesselman’s shutting down when the inventory is gone, blaming ‘big box’ competition. Also in Evansville, Schaum’s Pizzeria suddenly shutdown. In Greenwood, after 45 years Hampton’s Market shutdown due to “the rise of big box stores”Monarch Beverage issued a shutdown WARN for its Wine Division, 94 jobs gone by the end of August.

KENTUCKY: In Owensboro, after 44 “fun” years The Bakers Rack shutdown, the owner said she wants to “go out on top”.

MAINE: Border Patrol Stops Canadian Fishermen in Disputed Waters

MARYLAND: Giant Food shutting down its store in Windsor Mill by mid-August, calling the store “outdated” but also admitting they have too many newer grocery stores in the area.

Some residents will pay more for water

MASSACHUSETTS: Without warning, the new owners of America’s oldest candy company (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) shutdown its Necco factory in Revere: “Round Hill Investments was very excited to acquire Necco’s historic brands and to be part of their national resurgence. After careful engagement and consideration, however, the firm decided to sell the brands to another national confection manufacturer and today announced the closure of the operations in Revere, Massachusetts.”

In Boston, after four years restaurant Bisito shutdown its Burlington Mall location, local news media say its the third restaurant in the mall to shutdown this year.  In Worcester, after 89 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Mrs. Mack’s Bakery shutdown, the owner saying her health problems might force her to move back to Ireland.

MICHIGAN: Ken’s Fruit Market shutdown its two years old Wyoming location to “focus on our other locations” because “this one isn’t doing as well”.  In Detroit, after 19 years restaurant Andiamo shutdown, the owner saying in the past six years too many new restaurants have opened, meaning the local restaurant market can’t support them all.

MINNESOTA:  Coburn’s-Save-a-Lot Food Stores shutdown its Saint Cloud, West Division Street, location due to low ‘customer count’ and the fact the company is spending money remodeling other Save-a-Lot stores in the area. Coborn’s also suddenly shutdown its grocery store in Montevideo, 59 jobs gone.  In Duluth, Grizzly’s Wood Fired Cooking shutdown with short notice, the restaurant and a car dealership on the property are being torn down after the city approved a redevelopment plan.

MISSOURI: In Saint Louis, the owner of Porana Pasta shutdown his Washington Avenue location, blaming crashing sales on declining activity at the nearby convention center.

NEVADA: A 15 years old Dairy Queen in Northwest Reno shutdown, the aged owners (who claim they’ve worked with Dairy Queen since they were teenagers) say that for health reasons they’ve been advised to reduce their stress by reducing the number of restaurants they own. Local news media said the shutdown came as a shock to the employees.

China builds giant indoor vertical farm just east of Las Vegas 

NEW JERSEY: In Parsippany, Cups Frozen Yogurt That’s Hot shutdown.  Italy owned food service company HMS Host issued a WARN for its ops in Trenton, 287 jobs gone by mid-September!

NEW YORK:  In Albany, after 42 years, and failed attempts to sell the property, Grandma’s Pies & Restaurant shutdown.  In Great Neck, after only four months Ren Wen Noddle Factory shutdown, the owners saying “Based on your feedback, we will be temporarily closing this location to readjust”.  In Larchmont, after 40 years La Riserva shutdown. In NYC, after less than two years the pro-veggie restaurant Hemlock shutdown.  Gourmet Management issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC Penn Station TGI Fridays, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Haagen Dazs, Tim Hortons & Beer Cart Restaurants, 92 jobs gone by mid-October due to lost lease.  Chipotle issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC corporate office, to happen between now and March 2019.  Also in NYC, Union Square Catering Facility blamed the bad economy for issuing a shutdown WARN for its The Coffee Shop, 150 jobs gone by mid-October!  Food service contractor Compass Group issued a shutdown WARN, 84 jobs gone due to losing a contract with Credit Suisse.

NORTH CAROLINA: Greensboro base The Fresh Market announced it will shutdown 15 stores across the U.S. “for a variety of reasons unique to each retail location”.  Four years old The Fresh Market store in Charlotte on the shutdown hit list.

607 poisonous plants of North Carolina

NORTH DAKOTA: State sues Dakota Access oil pipeline over farmland ownership

ethanol plant to explore use of barley feedstock

ND State University accused of negligence after dozens of farm research animals were crushed to death! (the future farmers of America?)

OHIO: In Mason, after 56 years Angilos Pizza shutdown, the owners saying “Mom and I are tired, we work full time jobs and run Angilo’s.”  In Mount Adams, after 55 years Celestial Steakhouse forced to shutdown after the landlord suddenly leased the location to a competing food venue!

OREGON:  In Salem, after 22 years Croissant & Company shutdown after failed attempts to sell, and even give away, the restaurant!

Wheat Farmers Fight to Stop Substation Fire

fire crushes wheat farmers during bountiful harvest

Feral pig population plummets

PENNSYLVANIA: In Allentown, two Grain & Centro restaurants were shutdown with short notice, it’s blamed on the “challenging” design of area, local news media pointed out the restaurants were located in the failed Neighborhood Improvement Zone where dozens of restaurants have come and gone since 2014. J.M. Smucker Company issued shutdown WARNs for its Sewickley and Meadville operations, 131 jobs gone by between the end of August and the end of September!  France owned food service company Sodexo issued a shutdown WARN for its St. Luke’s Hospital Allentown Campus ops, 67 jobs gone by the end of September.

SOUTH CAROLINA: In Greenville, DishOut Cafe & Catering shutdown because the owners were making more money with their new taco joint.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Lawsuit over prison food going to court

New breed of salmon to be stocked

North American Manure Expo

TENNESSEE: On Oak Ridge Highway, after five years Archer’s BBQ shutdown due to lack of profits, the owners saying “businesses have to be profitable to survive.”  The Fresh Market store in Hendersonville shutting down, 61 jobs gone by August.

TEXAS: In Houston, after 72 years Kegg’s Candies suddenly shutdown its retail store, as well as its chocolate factory, due to the “slow economy”.  Also in Houston, El Tiempo Cantina forced to shutdown its Montrose location so that apartments can be built.  In Austin, after 65 years The Frisco (the last of the Frisco Shop/Night Hawk chain of restaurants) shutdown. In Beaumont, after three years Wood Fired Grill-Backyard Dance Hall shutdown, the owner blamed lack of  sales on the current “entertainment and dining landscape”.

UTAH: McDonald’s soda spiked with synthetic heroin

VIRGINIA: In Richmond, after 22 years Nacho Mama’s shutting down in August, the property has been sold.

WASHINGTON: Farm equipment plows into Fairfield fitness center

Washington DC: financial aid offer to farmers criticized as tax-funded ‘welfare’

WEST VIRGINIA: CKE Restaurant Holdings shutdown its Hardee’s in Oceana due to lack of sales, local news media said local customers were interested only in the breakfast menu.

WISCONSIN: After less that two years of operations, New Jersey based Schuman Cheese suddenly laid off 51 people from its ‘new’ Imperia Foods factory in Fall Creek, local news media blames it on automation.  The Fresh Market issued a shutdown WARN for its stores in Fox Point and Brookfield, 102 jobs gone in August!

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, JUNE 2018: “A THOUSAND PAPER CUTS”

“a change in business circumstances”: Sears-Kmart death spiral, October 2018

New York Post: Whirlpool doesn’t want Sears selling any of its appliances

9News.com KUSA: Sears is delisted on NASDAQ

Yahoo Finance: lifetime warranties in question

National Real Estate Investor: Sears Will End Up in Liquidation

Delaware Online: Decisions to ax unsuccessful local locations were made well before bankruptcy!

WCPO: How safe are Sears warranties and gift cards?

Chicago Tribune: Whirlpool to Sears: We want our appliances back

Bankruptcy judge to OK Sears’ store closings

bankruptcy to close another 142 stores

CNBC: Sears Holdings plans to file for bankruptcy protection early morning Monday

The Business Journals:  bankruptcy deal to keep Sears Holdings alive through Christmas

Reuters: Eddie Lampert stepped up to contribute toward a bankruptcy financing package 

Sears aims to close up to 150 Sears stores in bankruptcy, 250 Sears stores in limbo!

Market Watch: 100-thousand retirees to be screwed!

Business Insider: Sears’ top spokesman jumps ship

Marea Informative: Major Shareholder dumps 25,700 Shares of Sears Holdings

Wall Street Journal: Lenders Make Push to Liquidate Sears

Lampert Won’t Give Sears Another Lifeline

Sears Holdings prepare for bankruptcy filing that could come as soon as this week

Forbes: Got $592 Million? You Could Buy Sears And JC Penney

CNN: How Sears wasted $6 billion that could have kept it out of bankruptcy

Things are bad at Sears. They’re worse at Kmart

Landlords cheer the end of Sears-Kmart

Sears stopped paying vendors?

Sears hires a bankruptcy expert

Pacific Daily News: man who swung a knife at Guam Kmart employees had his sentence commuted.

MyPalmBeachPost: New Sears vs Gardens Mall lawsuit 

Seeking Alpha: Is October 15 THE Date For Sears Holdings?

Madison County Record: Woman sues Sears-Kmart saying her clothes burst into flames

Motely Fool: Should Seritage Growth Properties Investors Fear a Sears Bankruptcy?

CT Post: man awarded $1.6 million for Sears warehouse injury

NJ.com:  $21K in damage, mold, after faulty Sears appliance install

ALABAMA: Gadsden Sears.

ARKANSAS: Russellville Kmart. 

ARIZONA: Massive Sears shutdowns for Sierra Vista, Yuma, Mesa/East, Phoenix-Desert Sky and Chandler.

CALIFORNIA: Kmarts in Lemoore, Modesto, Riverside, Visalia, Delano, Ontario and Placerville, bringing total California Sears-Kmart job losses to 1-thousand-211 by Xmas!

Massive Sears shutdowns for Pleasanton, Santa Rosa, Costa Mesa, Merced, Florin, El Centro, Modesto, Cerritos, Montebello and Bakersfield.

COLORADO: Sears in Lakewood and Centennial.

CONNECTICUT: Sears store-Auto Center-Lands End in Milford (69 jobs gone by Xmas) and Waterford.

Local news media discovered the still active Sears Outlet store in Newington was recently sold-off to a New York property developer, for $3.2-million USD.

FLORIDA: Kmarts in Gainesville and Miami (98 jobs gone by Xmas). Massive Sears shutdowns for Panama City, Walton Beach, Melbourne, Lakeland, Bradenton and Ocala.

GEORGIA: Kmarts in Peachtree and Covington.

IDAHO: Boise Town Square Mall Sears.

“…U-Haul is buying former Kmart stores all over the country”, including the Ammon Kmart and “another storage facility in Idaho Falls.”

ILLINOIS: Joliet Sears.  Kmarts in Quincy, Norridge and Moline. Sears Holdings issued a shutdown WARN for its Sears store in Niles, 75 jobs gone a week before Xmas.  Local news media also reported that Sears Holdings also suddenly laid off 75 people at its HQ in Hoffman Estates.  Sears Holdings suddenly announced the December shutdown of its Sears store in the Golf Mill Shopping Center, blaming it on “a change in business circumstances”, 75 jobs gone by Xmas.  A newly reduced-in-size Oakbrook Center Sears store re-opens. 

Canada fronts $25-million USD loan to partially pay for redevelopment of Revenswood Sears

INDIANA: Sears in Greenwood, Indianapolis and Terre Haute.

Kmarts in Griffith (113 jobs gone by Xmas) and Jasper. Little Caesars, which operate restaurants inside Kmarts, denies a video revealed an Indiana Kmart Little Caesars was serving frozen DiGiorno pizzas!

IOWA: Kmarts in Council Bluffs, Cherokee and Webster.

KANSAS: Kmarts in Salina and KC.

KENTUCKY: Kmarts in Grayson and Russell Springs.

Sears in Louisville-Okolona and Bowling Green.

LOUISIANA: Metairie Kmart.

MAINE: Madawaska Kmart.

MARYLAND: Kmarts in Prince Frederick and Oxon Hill.

Sears in Bowie, Westminster and Columbia.

MASSACHUSETTS: Sears-Land’s End in Natick.

MICHIGAN: Kmarts in Charlevoix and Lake Orion.

Sears-Land’s End in Ann ArborSears store and Auto Center in Lincoln Park (at least 96 jobs gone by Xmas).

MINNESOTA: Sears in Saint Paul and Minnetonka.

MISSOURI: Kmarts in Saint Joseph, KC and Florissant.

NEVADA: Henderson Sears.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Sears-Land’s End in Portsmouth.

NEW JERSEY: Glassboro Kmart.

Sears Auto Center in Deptford (10 jobs gone by Xmas) and Sears store in Middletown (57 jobs gone by Xmas).

NEW MEXICO: Coronado Sears.

NEW YORK:  Taxpayers being forced to pay tens of millions of dollars to turn the vacant East Greenbush Kmart into a training facility for state Family and Children Services.  The Executive Director for Rensselaer County’s Industrial Development Agency called the growing trend to use vacant retail buildings for taxpayer funded government ops “a Renaissance”.

Kmarts in Mahopac (42 jobs gone by the end of January 2019), Batavia (73 jobs gone by the end of January 2019), Niagara Falls (58 jobs gone by the end of January 2019), West Seneca (92 jobs gone by the end of January 2019) and  Schenectady (63 jobs gone by the end of January 2019).

Sears in Nanuet (88 jobs gone by the end of January 2019), Garden City (126 jobs gone by the end of January 2019), Yorktown Heights (55 jobs gone by the end of January 2019) and Lakewood (40 jobs gone by the end of January 2019).

NORTH CAROLINA: Kmarts in Statesville, Raleigh and Asheville.

Sears in Goldsboro, Fayetteville and Pineville.

Taxpayers turned the vacant Independence Mall Sears store into a Disaster Recovery Center: “This is new territory. This storm has been like no other I think that we’ve seen in very recent history and memory. So this community recovery resource center is, it’s very exciting that we were able, if there’s a silver lining in all of this, it’s very exciting that we were able to provide this to the community in fairly short order.”

NORTH DAKOTA: A family reports they found mice living inside winter boots they were trying on in a Bismark Kmart.  But that didn’t stop the family from buying the boots, it was the deciding factor in favor of buying the boots!

OHIO: Illegal dumping, homeless encampment found behind former Kmart

Kmarts in East Liverpool and Middleburg Heights/Cuyahoga (63 jobs gone by Xmas).

Niles Sears.

The Streetsboro Sears Appliance Showroom shutting down by the end of the month, a city official blames Eddie Lampert: “I don’t think it’s location; I think it’s more corporate. I was surprised that ours was still open. No one told me officially why they’re closed.”-Deborah Covert

OKLAHOMA: Sears in Tulsa and Norman.

According to local news reports, the vacant Arrowhead Mall Sears store, in Broken Arrow, is being replaced with a U.S. Post Office and Distribution Center.  The mall itself went bankrupt in 2016 (despite a 2014 remodel) and was sold by evil Wells Fargo to ‘an investor’ this year, it is currently managed by Texas based Property Managers.

OREGON: Beaverton Kmart. 

Salem-Lancaster Sears.  Portland Sears store-Auto Center-Land’s End (72 jobs gone by Xmas).

PENNSYLVANIA: Sears in Pittsburgh, Dubois, and Cornwells Heights.

Sears-Land’s End in Langhorne.

Massive Kmart shutdowns for Pleasant Hills, Altoona, Allentown, Phoenixville, Hummelstown, New Kensington, Carlisle, Thorndale and Matamoras.

Kmart manager chokes on final store ‘store is closing’ announcement.

The owners of Hershey Square Shopping Center, in Derry Township, revealed that the currently active Big Kmart store will be vacated sometime after Xmas, by listing the space as available to lease in 2019.  The Shenango Valley Mall Sears Auto Center, in Hermitage, suddenly shutdown with little or no warning to employees, inventory is already being shipped to other locations.  The Shenango Valley Mall Sears store shutdown more than a year ago.

SOUTH CAROLINA: Kmart in Mauldin, and what local news media suspected the still active Rock Hill Kmart sold at the end of September for $6-million USD, the buyer operates large scale storage units and plans to redevelop the Kmart property and the Kmart will shutdown.

TENNESSEE: Knoxville Kmart.

Sears Land’s End in West Town and Cordova.

Sears in Clarksville and Chattanooga.

TEXAS: Massive Sears shutdowns for Victoria, Austin/Barton Creek, Dallas, Irving, Ingram, Austin, Lubbock, Harlingen and Frisco.

After six decades the Sears store and Auto Center in Baytown shutting down in time for Xmas.

VIRGINIA:  Hampton Sears.

Kmarts in Springfield, Williamsburg and  Waynesboro.

The still active Sears store at the Landmark Mall , in Alexandria, could shutdown.  Local news media reporting that the mall owner and Sears Holdings’ REIT spin-off Seritage Growth Properties are in negotiations to re-develop the property, and the City of Alexandria “has approved this effort as a priority in the FY 2019 Long-Range Planning Work Program.”  The Annandale Big Kmart shutting down a week before Thanksgiving.

WASHINGTON: Puyallup Sears.

Bellingham Kmart.

WEST VIRGINIA: Charleston Kmart. 

Westover/Morgantown Sears.

WISCONSIN: Taxpayers of Portage screwed over for another 27 years as a tenth tax increment financing district, which includes a vacant Kmart, goes into effect!

WYOMING: Both the Casper Kmart and Casper Sears. 

SEARS – KMART DEATH SPIRAL, SEPTEMBER 2018: IS THIS IT?

“Get your stuff it’s time to leave.”: U.S. industrial/mining/logistics layoffs, July 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in July 2018.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

The Washington Post: Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside

ALABAMA: Hyundai plant could be first shut down under tariff plan

ALASKA: Oil giant reports 2018 profit, compared to big 2017 loss

ConocoPhillips Swaps Assets With BP, Expands Alaska Base

CALIFORNIA: No more Barbie or Hot Wheels? El Segundo based Mattel announced plans to eliminate at least 2-thousand-2-hundred toy jobs around the world, due to massive crashing sales possibly due to the death of retailer Toys R Us! Already Mattel laid off 140 people at its El Segundo HQ! Furniture company Minson Corporation issued a shutdown WARN for its Montebello ops, 113 jobs gone by September!  Freight Handlers Incorporated (FHI) issued a shutdown WARN for its Riverside ops, 115 jobs gone by September! Recycler Aqua Metals issued a shutdown WARN for its Alameda location, 12 jobs gone in September.  Golden State Overnight Delivery Service issued layoff WARNs for its Gardena and Santa Ana ops, 138 jobs gone mid-September!  ITW Bay Area Label issued a shutdown WARN for its San Jose ops, 54 jobs gone by October.  MV Transportation eliminating 135 jobs in Visalia, by the end of September!

COLORADO: Drillers Fuel Record Oil Output in Rush to Finish Wells

FLORIDA: C&S Wholesale Services eliminating 319 jobs in Orlando by October!

IDAHO:  Bankrupt and suddenly dead Indiana based Koontz-Wagner Custom Controls suddenly laid off 51 people at its now dead Caldwell ops.

ILLINOIS: Iconic cosmetics maker/seller Avon (now known as New Avon) just sold-off its last U.S. factory, in Morton Grove-Chicago, to a French company, 3-hundred to 4-hundred jobs affected!  The French company will make products for British empire United Kingdom owned Walgreens-Boots Alliance.  One of the last U.S. plastic model kit and RC toy manufacturers/distributors, Hobbico, officially chapter 7 bankrupt dead, resulting in iconic Revell kits being 100% German owned.  In Chicago, MW Industries issued a shutdown WARN, 49 jobs gone by Xmas.  In Aurora, Jacobson Warehouse issued a shutdown WARN, 134 jobs gone due to consolidation operations!  Stack-On Products issued shutdown WARNs for its operations in Wauconda and McHenry, 153 jobs gone in October!

INDIANA:  In Bristol, Diversified Machine warning 5-hundred employees of layoffs due to losing a contract with Ford!   Chapter 7 bankrupt and suddenly dead Koontz-Wagner Custom Controls suddenly laid off 104 people (according to official WARN) at its now dead South Bend factory and HQ, one employee told local news media there was no warning: “No one knew about it to 9 o’ clock this morning when we had a meeting and they told us ‘We are shutting the doors. Get your stuff it’s time to leave.'”-Ron Randolph, employee for 16 years

Japan based Wire-Maker TOKUSEN Says it Will Idle Clark County Operation

IOWA: Construction industry tool maker Black Cat Wear Parts laid off ten people, blaming it on the tariff war with British empire Canada.  Winnebago Industries eliminating 31 jobs by the end of August.

KENTUCKY: Greeting card maker American Greetings shutting down its factory in Bardstown, more than 250 jobs lost between September 2018 and February 2019!

MASSACHUSETTS: Partly taxpayer funded uniform maker Pepperell Mills now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and liquidating.  Technetics Group shutting down ops in Oxford due to “the current industrial gas turbine market”, 97 jobs lost.

MINNESOTA: United Sports Brands eliminating 20 jobs in Minnetonka, by November.

MISSOURI: Lawnmower engine maker Briggs and Stratton cutting production and warning of mass layoffs at its factory in Popular Bluff, in “coming weeks”, due to lack of sales.  Also in Popular Bluff, Mid Continent Nail Corporation cut production by half and laid off 60 people, blaming lack of sales on new tariff wars.

NEW YORK:  Fischer Price laid off 50 people at its HQ, as part of parent company Mattel’s plan to eliminate thousand of jobs globally!  Advanced Motors and Drives issued a layoff WARN for its East Syracuse location, 51 jobs gone between August 2018 and March 2019.  Verrino Construction Services now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to lack of cash caused by lack of sales. Hebeler Process Solutions issued layoff WARNs, at least 60 jobs gone in September due to a sudden loss of sales from a major customer.

NORTH CAROLINA: American Tire Distributors suddenly laid off 1-hundred people because “…the industry is going through its largest change in decades”.  Home furnishings maker Heritage Home Group (Broyhill, Lane, Thomasville, and Drexel Heritage) now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Mattress maker Serta Simmons shutting down its factory in Whitsett, 112 jobs gone by September!

OHIO: Chinese owned (Hong Kong) vacuum cleaner maker TTI Floor Care (Oreck) issued a shutdown WARN for its Glenwillow ops, at least 75 jobs gone starting in September due “to changing business circumstances” forcing the company to consolidate operations.  Germany based Siemens issued a shutdown WARN for its Aero-Derivative Gas Turbine ops, 134 jobs gone “due to conditions within the global energy market”.

OKLAHOMA: Aircraft parts maker NORDAM Group now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to problems with Pratt & Whitney Canada, local news media say NORDAM is the second biggest employer in the state.

U.S. oil production hits 11 million barrels a day

PENNSYLVANIA: ArcelorMittal Plate issued a layoff WARN, 125 people in Conshohocken jobless by September!  Jacobson Warehouse issued a shutdown WARN for its Lancaster ops, 62 jobs gone in September.

SOUTH CAROLINA: Tariffs Imperil BMW in South Carolina

SOUTH DAKOTA: Hultgren Construction now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to lawsuits over a deadly building collapse.

TENNESSEE: TEC Industrial Maintenance & Construction laid off 238 people due to a lost contract!

TEXAS: Bankrupt and suddenly dead Indiana based Koontz-Wagner Custom Controls suddenly laid off 52 people at its now dead Houston ops.

WASHINGTON: Germany based logistics company Arvato issued a shutdown WARN for its Yakima ops, 168 jobs gone by the end of September!

WEST VIRGINIA: MRC Global shutting down its Nitro distribution center, 38 jobs lost to consolidation ops.

Diversified Gas & Oil buys EQT assets

Pinnacle Mine to lay off roughly 90 miners

WISCONSIN: Mayline-Safeco laying off 127 furniture makers in September, as part of plans to shutdown operations at several locations by November! Cooper Power Systems eliminating 52 mechanic jobs by September.  In Waukesha, General Electric (GE) laying off 236 people by shutting down its Distributed Power Facility!

U.S. INDUSTRIAL/MINING/LOGISTICS SHUTDOWNS, JUNE 2018: “GLOBAL RACE TO THE BOTTOM.”

Taxes & New Laws prove it’s no Land of the Free!: U.S. government shenanigans, July 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for July 2018:

It’s ironic that during the month that the independence of the United States was officially declared, a massive amount of new imperialist laws and taxations were made!

04 July 1776:  How Taxes, Tariffs & Tea Led To American Independence

Why is there a lawyer shortage? Maybe it’s because too many Americans have become Dumbed Down!  “It’s an intense time for recent law school graduates, and following wave after wave of record-setting failure rates on bar exams nationwide, many of them are incredibly nervous about how they’ll perform on the July 2018 exam.”

ALABAMA: Shelby, other senators criticized for spending July 4th in Russia

Alabama to enforce internet sales tax collections

ALASKA: Anchorage Marijuana Store Owner fails to pay taxes

Alaska Wants to Fight Warming While Still Drilling for Oil

ARIZONA: Hundreds of new laws

Arizona tops record state revenue, supposedly due to high tax collections rate

ARKANSAS: ‘Non-profit’ Preferred Family Healthcare loses taxpayer funded contracts after being caught in a state lawmaker corruption scandal!

CALIFORNIA:  The Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission issued a layoff WARN, 47 jobs gone in September.

What You Need to Know About California’s New Data Privacy Law

New staffing law bedevils nursing homes

Hate crimes rise for third straight year

Gun owners couldn’t meet registration deadline due to state computer crashes, yet that didn’t stop spike in assault weapon registrations

Glendale police detective pleads guilty to obstruction, lying to feds

U.S. Marine sentenced in stabbing of Janesville man

Millionaires Leaving California Over Taxes

Tesla will be the first automaker to lose the taxpayer funded federal tax credit for electric cars

COLORADO:  Federal tax payers funding repair of storm damaged Reservoir In Thornton

How a Denver Post reporter found that thousands of Colorado court cases have been hidden from public view

How To Protect Your Colorado License Plates From Theft

CONNECTICUT: New State Laws

rise in online dating, internet crimes

police chief retires amid scrutiny over suicide probe

DELAWARE: County corrections officer charged with sexual misconduct 

FLORIDA: Search and rescue volunteer arrested for impersonating a cop

Corrections officer arrested and fired after she beat pregnant shackled woman

More than 450 people in Florida ordered to surrender guns

Hundreds of new laws that took effect July 1 (and one law that didn’t)

GEORGIA: Gang activity getting worse

Other Georgia laws that took effect 

GUAM: Lieutenant governor apologized for grabbing a police officer’s holstered gun at the Tumon barbecue street festival

HAWAII: 2 arrested after cop killed 

Appeals court: 2nd Amendment protects open carry of guns

IDAHO: Once again exalted taxpayer funded leaders of Pocatello are claiming their city is booming, even placing an article in the local newspaper disputing all claims of increasing poverty.  Pocatello native Reverend Roger Bray got so upset he countered with his own article saying “…the poverty rate in Bannock County was 16 percent of our households; while households classified in the ALICE category were listed at 22 percent. The combined rate of those struggling added up 38 percent of all Bannock County households…   ….the conclusions of the 24/7 Wall St. study and the ALICE study, conducted by two divergent groups with different methodologies and for different purposes, converge. Together they demonstrate that there are significant economic challenges faced by a large portion of our community…..   …the levy rate for Pocatello has moved up steadily. Pocatello now has the highest accumulative property tax rate of the 10 largest cities in Idaho….” 

Refugee who fled violence in Ethiopia mourns daughter slain in Boise

Domestic violence deaths are on the rise in Idaho – especially murder

Prison overcrowding forces Ada County To Study Criminal Justice Reform

Statewide prison overcrowding causing ‘criminal justice crisis,’ may have to declare emergency

New Tricky Trespass Laws

Drivers ticketed for going too slow under new law

Planned Parenthood, ACLU Sue Idaho (and taxpayer funded leaders of Idaho have a real good record of losing lawsuits)

Idaho Public Utilities Commission postpones Avista and Hydro One merger 

Idaho gears up to boost logging on federal land

ILLINOIS: More than half the state’s counties are on a poverty watch list

Nearly 2,300 women are now serving time in prison

transgender woman sues to move to women’s prison

Herrin Police Department initiates new ‘street crimes’ unit

property crime up in Rockford

Belleville cop forced woman into sex act

INDIANA: The city of Fort Wayne not renewing a contract with Fleet Services Company, 25 taxpayer funded jobs gone in September.

Van Buren town marshal arrested on burglary and thefts charges

Dozens of NEW Laws Went Into Effect (eyeball tattoos?)

IOWA: New state laws affecting farmers

KANSAS: New state laws

tax receipts up $1.2 billion from previous year, due to lawmakers reneging on promised state income tax cuts!

KENTUCKY: Record number of new laws you have to obey!

LOUISIANA:  No tax-free weekends for 7 years

Local sales tax rates reduced, but still considered high 

MAINE: 15000 Taxpayers May Have to File Amended state tax Returns!

U.S. Border Patrol Stops Canadian Fishermen in Disputed Waters Off Maine

Medical marijuana legalized but age to smoke tobacco raised

MARYLAND: Federal regulators approve natural gas pipeline on west side of state

several new state laws that may affect your business

MASSACHUSETTS: New anti-gun law allows your anti-gun relatives to legally take your guns by claiming you’re a threat!

Marijuana sales to begin

Police Release School Vandals Due to Change in state law

“NASTY Women” abortion act

MICHIGAN: History of Michigan’s unConstitutional religious ‘blue laws’, used to punish ‘non-believers’!

150 new laws

Municipalities bristle at state’s copper, lead laws

MINNESOTA: New Laws In Minnesota 

People with records of intoxicated driving now banned from state parks?

will early property tax payments pay off

Minnesota to e-retailers: Start collecting taxes 

State income tax not unconstitutional (according to taxpayer funded state court)

MISSISSIPPI: Mississippi laws: What’s new this month

MISSOURI: prison guard sued for third time over alleged sex assaults 

New prison system program costs taxpayers $5-million USD

Sheriff and deputy caught having affair, also facing multiple felony charges

Continued Increase in Federal Regional Violent Crime Prosecutions

MONTANA: Tracking ‘Dark Money’ in Montana Elections

Riot at Cascade County Detention Facility

NEBRASKA: In the predominantly ‘christian’ state, cops have been using convict data to seek out, harass and intimidate state employees who were former prisoners!

Looser gun restrictions among new state laws

NEVADA: more than a dozen new laws

Tax revenue from marijuana sales set new high

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Online taxes: New Hampshire Steps Back

New Hampshire’s new poll tax

New Hampshire makes it tougher for students to vote.

NEW JERSEY: State taxpayers forced to fund local news media!

NEW MEXICO: Political corruption killing local economy

State cop preyed on woman, teen

State prisons will soon fill up

NEW YORK: State ‘criminal justice system’ is not about fighting crime, it’s all about Social Control.

New law forces Airbnb to open its books to New York 

A state Law Tailored for Orthodox Jewish Schools Is Unconstitutional

New Yorkers Trying to Flee High State Taxes Find Moving Isn’t So Easy

NORTH CAROLINA: consumers could see $5B coal-ash cleanup bill

28 Sex Crimes Charges Dropped Against Police Officer

17 new laws 

NORTH DAKOTA: Supplier of electricity to public utilities, Basin Electric Power Cooperative eliminated 25 jobs, and warned of possible future layoffs.

Groups sue over oil refinery near national park

OHIO: Fat taxpayer funded Pentagon budget brings jobs to struggling M1A1 tank factory 

payday lending law could slam short-term lenders

OKLAHOMA: Prison incarceration rate “up 700 percent”

State Health department attorney confessed to faking threats 

” the largest abrogation of state sovereignty by a federal court in American history”

New Gas, Cigarette Tax Rates

OREGON: The mayor of Portland, and its Police Chief, swore they are not targeting people for being homeless, but 2017 arrest records prove they are!

 Black U.S. politician reported to police while canvassing for votes

Federal taxpayers now owners of bankrupt Lost Valley Farm mega dairy!

Asylum-seekers endure horrible conditions in Oregon prison

PENNSYLVANIA: Court upholds Philadelphia soda tax

PUERTO RICO: mayor, two others arrested on corruption charges

U.S. Army to Invest $62M in Puerto Rico

SOUTH CAROLINA: New South Carolina laws

gas taxes rising by another 2 cents per gallon

SOUTH DAKOTA: Nearly 300 new laws take effect!

Dentist and community activist accused of ‘touching’ female prisoners in Minnehaha County Jail

Wrong Man Released From Jail Turns Himself In

Lawsuit over prison food going to court

TENNESSEE: State Bureau of Investigation spokesperson placed on administrative leave as part of the criminal investigation of his taxpayer funded boss

TEXAS: Taxpayer funded Red River Army Depot to layoff more than 300 workers

VERMONT:  Legalizes Limited Amounts Of Recreational Cannabis

Tax Department Backlog Leads to Errors in Tax Bills

WASHINGTON: A look at Seattle neighborhoods where crime is up 

Gun owners face fines up to $10000 for not locking up their guns

From straw bans to $15 minimum wage

Washington DC: DoD Contractors Can Self-Report Derogatory Information

New tax law creates challenges for farmers

 Trump signs new law to Help Grandparents Raising Grandkids

“Recent tax law changes gave Treasury discretion to set the value of the withholding allowance for 2018.”

Don’t Count On A Tax Refund Next April

tax-exempt organizations no longer need to list donor information

WEST VIRGINIA: Berkeley County attorney found guilty of witness intimidation

“law enforcement teacher at Putnam County’s Career and Technical Center accused of sexual abuse of a student is among 49 people indicted by a Putnam County grand jury” 

WISCONSIN: ‘It’s a huge subsidy’: the $4.8bn taxpayer funded gamble to lure foreign Foxconn to Wisconsin, and to steal your property Foxconn and Eminent Domain: Using Blighted Property Designations

Court OKs Unconscious suspected intoxicated Drivers’ Blood Draws

State to expand collections of online sales tax

Self-Storage Lien-Law 

WYOMING: New ‘Gun’ Law

City of Cody, known for no animal laws, now wants to regulate your pets and livestock.

DUMBING DOWN THE U.S.A., JULY 2018: SCHOOL CRIMES SKYROCKETING!

OBAMACARE ACA DEATH SPIRAL, JULY 2018: ‘PHANTOM MEDICAL’ CLAIMS

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, JULY 2018: “A STATE OF NEAR DEATH.”

U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, JUNE 2018: “THIS ISN’T FOSTER CARE, THIS IS STATE-SPONSORED KIDNAPPING!”

“a state of near death.”: Drugs, the American Way, July 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of July 2018.

“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, 19MAR2018

On 01 July, somewhere in the eastern Pacific the U.S. Coast Guard captured a drug boat, three smugglers and 2,263 pounds of cocaine.

ALABAMA: Drug roundup results in 40 arrests; 30 cars seized

19 Arrested as Part of “Operation Street Sweeper”

ALASKA: Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Drug and Money Laundering Crimes

33 pounds of meth in backpack

Shooting in Mountain View started with fight over drugs

ARIZONA: 12 arrested in 13-month investigation

Border Patrol seize $1.4M in illegal drugs in tractor-trailer from Mexico

Union Pacific train derailment turns into drugs crime

New prosecution policy targets marijuana backpackers

ARKANSAS: Prisoners want information on execution drug

Prisoner dies of suspected overdose

Pulaski County Circuit Judge admits to rude and unprofessional behavior during Drug Court hearings

Drug crimes so numerous that taxpayers forced to build New State Crime Lab in Northwest Arkansas

CALIFORNIA: “Medical students, residents and even doctors in practice don’t recognize the addictive potential of benzodiazepines. There’s been all this awareness on opioids but very little focus on benzodiazepines and yet people are dying from them.”-Anna Lembke, Stanford University Medical Center, about the Next Drug Crisis

In San Diego, the U.S. Coast Guard off-loaded 8.5-U.S. tons of cocaine on 16 July.

DEA Arrests Eight People Linked to Coachella Valley-Based Meth Gang 

Doctor and His Assistant Charged in Scheme to Illegally Distribute Prescription Drugs and Commit Health Care Fraud

Demi Lovato hospitalized for apparent drug overdose

COLORADO: Man Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for Growing Marijuana on an Island in the Colorado River

Legal marijuana caused emergency room visits to skyrocket?

Despite legal ganja, Colorado still has an illegal immigrant run black market marijuana problem 

Just because you legalize ganja it doesn’t reduce other drug crimes as A Surge In Meth Use In Colorado Complicates Opioid Recovery

CONNECTICUT: Hartford Man Sentenced to Prison for Distributing Crack

10000 bags of heroin seized in Hartford

10 arrests in Waterbury area

9 Arrests During Thompsonville Crackdown

Cop contaminated by Dangerous Drug: “This officer, from all we can understand, merely picked up a packet of drugs. That’s all it took to send him into a state of near death.”-Sergeant Chris Fry, Meriden Police

DELAWARE: Nearly Half of Overdoses Were in Sussex County

FLORIDA: 

On 03 July, the U.S. Coast Guard, and Tactical Law Enforcement Team South, captured a drug boat and more than 7-U.S. tons of cocaine.

Miami-Dade County Resident and Haitian Immigrant Charged with Cocaine Trafficking in South Florida

Four Foreign Nationals Indicted for International Cocaine Smuggling

Dark Web Vendor Sentenced to 108 Months in Prison for Narcotics Trafficking and Money Laundering Charges

new opioid-prescription law

Synthetic marijuana K2 most prevalent drug in Florida

Drug-smuggling operation at Florida jail uncovered

‘excited delirium’ 

GEORGIA: 18 homes raided in drug busts across Gwinnett County

Meth, cocaine are the most commonly seized drugs

Majority of those killed by cops tested positive for drugs

Judges across Georgia are releasing non-violent drug offenders

Deadly drugs ending up in counterfeit pills

GUAM: Woman pleads guilty to selling meth to U.S. military personnel

Attorney General employee sentenced to 3 years for smuggling drugs into prison

Recycling center ‘finds’ five pounds of cocaine

HAWAII: Drastic drop in drug supplies for hospitals

Opiate and cocaine use is climbing among workforce

medication drop-box program launched

IDAHO: Idaho State Police, Lewiston Police Department, Nez Perce County Sheriff’s Office and Nez Perce Tribal Police Department conducted a seven hours long vehicle stop & search op resulting in six felony drug charges, 25 misdemeanor drug charges and made one outstanding warrant arrest.

State senate candidate confronted cops with knife during drugs search

Major court case screw-up as jury member admits they know (and possibly hated) accused meth dealer defendant, resulting in an unfair conviction!

Nampa police arrest 20 for drugs in one week!

Who’s tracking opioids in the Treasure Valley?

ILLINOIS: Overdose deaths on the rise in Winnebago County

6 charged in drug-trafficking ring, including 2 previously acquitted

$1M coke, meth bust

Operation Fat Chance: More than 50 people facing criminal charges  for heroin and fentanyl sales on Chicago’s West Side

INDIANA:  police jail 129 in 6-day drug take-down event!

police seize orange ecstasy pills featuring Trump’s face

$750K worth of drugs, guns and cash seized 

IOWA:  Meth, marijuana, opioid tests rising at crime lab

Decorah parents charged with possessing meth around kids

Two major drug bust arrests in one week for Clear Lake

Two hospital nurses charged with drug theft

Halfway house prisoner accused of selling drugs

KANSAS: Increase in violent crimes comes with growing drug problem

Mexican Drug Cartels Sending Drugs Directly To Kansas

Drugs maker Cingulate Therapeutics raised $16-million

Prescription drug with marijuana to be sold in Kansas for the first time

KENTUCKY: Mexican illegal immigrant Pleads Guilty to Distribution of Methamphetamine

Drug Overdose Deaths up 11.5 Percent

Boyd County 3rd in state for OD deaths; suicides also up

Couple accused of kidnapping kids, having drugs, owning pet squirrel

LOUISIANA: Massive drug bust yields 221 felony charges!

more than $14,000 in marijuana seized

Drug roundup leads to 13 arrests

prison employee accused of trying to smuggle drugs in a sandwich

100-plus officers, K9s at Angola after drugs kill 2 prisoners

Amid Ringgold drug turmoil, residents pray

MAINE: State cop Accused of Selling Drugs makes Plea Agreement

$200000 worth of crystal meth

Operation SOS could mean harsher sentences for drug dealing

School district wants to punish “who are knowingly in the presence of prohibited substances”.

MARYLAND: U.S. Navy Academy’s biggest drug bust involving taxpayer funded students!

2472 Bags of Heroin From Worcester County Home

MASSACHUSETTS: Revere Men Sentenced for Oxycodone

Prison Guard Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Smuggle Opioids Into Prison 

Fentanyl-Laced Heroin, Cocaine, $60K Seized in Drug Raid

Fire Call Results in Unlikely Stoughton Drug Bust

MICHIGAN: Residents Sentenced for Oxycodone Distribution 

Woman Sentenced for Pill Charge

MINNESOTA:  Controversial ketamine trial sparks ethics complaint

Law officers nab 7 in what they say is first fentanyl operation in Duluth

Woman’s Airbnb home becomes drug-dealing venue

Parasite Drugs Its Hosts With the Psychedelic Chemical in Shrooms

MISSISSIPPI: Rankin County Man Sentenced to Five Years for Cocaine

Traffic stop leads to $2.5 million drug bust

Woodlands Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center nurse arrested for stealing drugs

MISSOURI: Details of Years of Drug Trafficking, Homicide, and Deadly Drug Overdoses at Clinton-Peabody Housing Complex

Drug crimes so bad that taxpayers forced to spend and extra 37% on funding for the 2nd Judicial Circuit’s Drug Court program!

Psychotropic Drugs Given To Missouri Foster Kids

Drugs maker TrialCard hiring 225 people to take drug orders

MONTANA: Men Sentenced to Federal Prison on Drug and Gun Charges

HIV on the rise in drug users 

Special anti-drug Highway Patrol team seizes record amount of drugs in first year

Drugged up fugitive buries alive five months old baby

NEBRASKA:  11 pounds of heroin strapped to man

168 pounds of marijuana

Drug company accuses taxpayer funded Nebraska Prisons of lying about what it was going to do with $20-million worth of killer drugs!

NEVADA: Las Vegas Doctor Pleads Guilty to Illegal Distribution of Hydrocodone and Oxycodone

Nevada prison execution connected to Drug company accusing Nebraska Prisons of lying about planned use of drugs.

Bail set at $1.5-million USD for two Canadians caught trafficking drugs

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  What to do with a sudden increase in federal taxpayer funding to fight opioids

New Drug Enforcement Surge to Focus on Hillsborough County

K-9 Units Sniff Out Drugs in Prisons

NEW JERSEY: Mercy County drug bust nets heroin, guns and cash

More than 8 people are dying from overdoses each day

Operation Red Raider: 21 Busted 

NEW MEXICO: State Police Officer Arrested on Federal Drug Trafficking Charges, accused of using drugs from evidence lockers to influence females, could lead to dismissals of 68 pending drug cases because the arrested cop probably falsified evidence against innocent people!

NEW YORK: Buffalo Man Pleads Guilty to Cocaine Conspiracy

Clifton Park Doctor Arrested for Unlawful Drug Distribution

Suspected leader of Queens-Based Meth gang Arrested

Drug Bust At Blue Heron Festival

An NYC bathroom set up to stem overdoses

NORTH CAROLINA: doctor wrote phony Oxyco prescriptions

Operation East to West results in 25 arrests

Day-care raided in massive drug bust

15 Arrested On Drug Charges

NORTH DAKOTA: teacher must surrender license because of drug charges

Drug crimes continue rise

new anonymous drug texting tip line

1/2 pound of meth

OHIO: drug dealer gets life sentence

Shooting victim arrested on drug charges

spike in drug-related deaths 

highest overdose rate in nation

OKLAHOMA: Mayes County deputy fired after stealing meth

Woman accused of bringing drugs into state prison

Changes to marijuana laws

Woman faces multiple life sentences

OREGON: High demand for legalized ganja turned out to be overblown, prices crash due to lack of buyers!

Dog detected meth, Adults charged with child neglect

$45000 worth of MDMA

Astoria-based Coast Guard crew aids in $260 million drug capture

PENNSYLVANIA:  Pittsburgh Man Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison for Trafficking Heroin and Fentanyl Derivative

Man gets Probation for selling Oxycodone

Bad drug batch hospitalizes more than 100 in Philadelphia area

PUERTO RICO:  Nationwide legal drug shortage; partly due to hurricane in Puerto Rico

New Zealand news media reveals U.S. police love their state, or territory like Puerto Rico, being designated a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area because it forces U.S. taxpayers to give the cops an extra $3.1-million to $14.6-million USD each year!

RHODE ISLAND:  ADHD drugs do not improve cognition in healthy college students

“Three people are accused of running a drug house and holding another man against his will to steal his Social Security disability checks.”

SOUTH CAROLINA: Taxpayers spent $5-million USD on covert state police unit that was supposed to target drug dealers but was actually going after migrant workers!

police chief arrested on drug charge

pill gang used bitcoins, ‘dark web’

‘Operation The Heat is On’ drug roundup

SOUTH DAKOTA:  man sentenced to 25 years

man indicted in ‘darknet’ undercover operation

Mother sentenced to 40 years for toddler son’s beating death, after drinking alcohol and taking pain medication

TENNESSEE: Top Narcotics Officer Placed Under Investigation, calls into doubt dozens of drug convictions

Tipton County Public Defender’s investigator arrested for buying marijuana

Nashville warehouse distributing drugs illegally

New laws on the books to fight opioid epidemic

60 Pounds Of Pot Found At Nashville Airport

TEXAS: Federal Jury in Waco Finds Leader of Cartel Del Noreste and Nephew of Los Zetas Leaders Z-40 and Z-42 Guilty on All Charges

35 arrested

Coke, meth and booze: The flip side of the oil industry 

These guys smuggled pot to Dallas AFTER they’d been arrested 

UTAH: Girl tied to boys’ deaths charged with distributing drugs

teacher convicted of sex with minor charged with selling drugs

battle over pot pits the Mormon Church against its own members

County jail accused of giving newly arrested drug addict (and father) the drugs he used to kill himself with

VERMONT: 10 arrested

Royalton cop who stole heroin from police evidence room goes to prison, for a piddly six months!

Drug use so bad taxpayers forced to hire 9 More ‘Drug Recognition Experts’

Ganja ‘gifting’ is illegal

More bad news on the marijuana law

Metal dealers caught up in drug crimes

VIRGINIA: 

At Fort Belvior, scientists with Northwestern and Cornell Universities, in conjunction with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department, spent 2.6-billion of your tax dollars finding a way to manufacture drugs faster, and to make the drugs take effect faster; Glycosylation Sequence Characterization and Optimization by Rapid Expression and Screening.

1,538 people died in Virginia from a drug overdose

Man Dies After Choking on Bag of ‘White Powder’ 

Prisoners to get treatment for addictions

WASHINGTON: Drug bust at Paradiso Festival

Moses Lake cops find fentanyl disguised as prescription medicine

Feds arrest 11 in alleged heroin, meth trafficking ring

Man acquitted of killing toddler sentenced for drug charges

Drug dealer takes customers hostage for failing to pay

Female prisoner sneaks meth and heroin into jail inside her body

Washington DC: Man Sentenced to Over 10 Years in Federal Prison for Phencyclidine (PCP) 

“U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said in Fargo on Thursday, July 26, that many American Indian tribes are in free fall due to overdose deaths involving opioids.”

WEST VIRGINIA: Charleston Doctor Arrested for Illegal Distribution of Opioids Resulting in Death

7 Arrested After Drug Raid in Huntington

deaths of despair

WISCONSIN: Man arrested in heroin bust worked for ‘christian’ YWCA

Rock County Jail nurse arrested on drug charge

Fatal drug overdoses in La Crosse County climb 

81 grams of drugs found inside woman’s body

Heroin deaths at all-time high

Chippewa Indians join War on Drugs

WYOMING: probation officer pleads guilty to drug charge

Nurse Indicted for Unlawful Distribution of Drugs Resulting in Death

UPS (United Parcel Service) employee admits to stealing drug packages

Colorado pot finds its way to northeast Wyoming

DUI arrest rate is among the highest in the country

‘phantom medical’ claims: ObamaCare ACA death spiral, July 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes in July 2018:

$32-million fraud lawsuit settled

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: 1-thousand-2-hundred people could be eligible for compensation because of hospital data breach

ARKANSAS: Walmart suddenly laid off 150 people from its Optical Lab in Fayetteville, due to “changing business needs”.

hospitals accuse EMS provider of ‘balance billing’

‘Non-profit’ Preferred Family Healthcare loses taxpayer funded contracts after being caught in a state lawmaker corruption scandal!

CALIFORNIA: Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research issued a shutdown WARN for its Emeryville operations, 149 jobs gone by mid-September! Non-profit Bethesda Lutheran Communities issued a shutdown WARN for its Redding location, 34 jobs gone by the end of August.

One hospital executive sues another hospital executive over sexual harassment

Doctors indicted in $950M kickback scheme 

A shutdown hospital is now blaming it on the National Union Fire Insurance Company

CONNECTICUT: Rosegarden Health and Rehabilitation Center issued a shutdown WARN for its Waterbury location, 45 jobs gone by mid-September.  Bridgeport Manor issued a shutdown WARN for its nursing home ops, 2-hundred jobs gone starting at the end of September!

court documents reveal money woes at Bridgeport nursing home

DELAWARE: Psychotherapist Sexually Abused Patient

FLORIDA: Lake Emergency Medical Services eliminating five jobs at the end of September.  In Orlando, DaVita Rx eliminating 109 jobs between September and December! In Tampa, Health Net Federal Services eliminating 131 jobs in September!  CareSync finally notified state unemployment administrators that it suddenly eliminated 292 jobs in June!  WorkNet Pinellas eliminating 133 jobs by the end of August!

ILLINOIS:  Rush University Medical Center outsourcing 110 jobs by September! Convey Health Solutions issued a shutdown WARN for its Decatur call center, 150 jobs gone in October!  Nursing home services company SeniorWell issued a layoff WARN for its Buffalo Grove ops, 48 jobs gone in September.

‘Christian’ hospital mishandled Legionnaires’ test of dying veteran

Taxpayer funded Cook County prisons fail to pay for $500-thousand worth of hospital care for prisoners

Ransomeware attack lawsuit

INDIANA: Medical supplier HLS Health and Wellness now bankrupt busted and liquidating, the bankruptcy is blamed on a contracted billing service provider which apparently ripped everybody off.  Kindred Hospital issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Mishawaka, 117 jobs gone by the end of September!  Walmart suddenly laid off 108 people from its Optical Lab in Crawfordsville, no warning!

MASSACHUSETTS: Providence Behavior Health Hospital warning of mass layoffs due to “operational changes”.

MICHIGAN: Hospital and patients suing over negative facebook comments

MISSOURI: BJC HealthCare suddenly laid off 113 InfoTech employees and contractors, in connection to its new Epic go-live ops!

Children’s Mercy facing lawsuit after data breach

MONTANA: “At least since 2011, Kalispell Regional has engaged in a scheme to pay excessive compensation to certain employed physicians to reward or induce them to refer patients, including Medicare patients, to Kalispell Regional hospitals and clinics.”

NEW JERSEY: Van Dyk Health Care eliminating 287 jobs in Trenton, by mid-September!  British empire United Kingdom based Hikma Pharmaceuticals eliminating 78 jobs in Eatontown, by the end of September.

man impersonates doctor, bills insurance companies more than $1M+ in ‘phantom medical’ claims

NEW MEXICO: Doctor fakes own cancer in order to avoid prison sentence

NEW YORK: In NYC, after 20 years physical therapy Support by Design forced to shutdown by the greedy landlord, and the operator couldn’t find any new locations that they could afford.

Pharmacy owner gets jail time for $1.5M kickback scheme with hospital employee

Health Quest Systems paying more than $15-million in fines for ripping off taxpayers 

Hospitals accused of age discrimination

OHIO: RiteAid shutting down its Steubenville pharmacy, due to being taken over by British empire based Boots-Walgreens. The mayor of Steubenville says it’s proof corporations don’t care about customers: “…there are many people living downtown, especially in government housing that do not have automobiles….Rite Aid was a source they could at least walk to and get their necessities to function.”-Jerry Barilla

MetroHealth COO found guilty of fraud, accepting bribes

OKLAHOMA: $1-thousand worth of medical equipment stolen from medical supply van

OREGON: legal cannabis actually made things worse for sick people

PENNSYLVANIA: Texas based LifeCare Hospitals decided to shutdown its Mechanicsburg long term care hospital, 122 jobs gone in September!

Medtronic closing office & eliminating 63 jobs

TENNESSEE: Michigan based Jackson National Life Insurance issued a WARN, 64 jobs in Franklin gone by August, however, optimistic company leaders told local news media that somehow the layoffs would pave the way for 250 new jobs.  Meharry Medical College suddenly laid off 55 people in order “to optimize our resources”.

United Benefits of America CEO gets 5-year prison sentence for health insurance fraud

TEXAS: hospital co-founder admits to bribing physicians for high-volume surgeries

drug company executive gets 15 years in prison for $50M pill distribution plot

Hospital accused of violating Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and falsifying lab results to support police claims

Doctor sues news media for defamation

UTAH:  Mission at Bear River Rehabilitation Center shutting down its 40 years old Tremonton location, some employees will move to a new facility near Brigham City.

VIRGINIA: Criminal charges against employees of North Spring Behavioral Healthcare after 16 years old female suffers back injuries

WASHINGTON: Taxpayer funded public hospital operator Trios-Health now chapter 9 bankrupt busted as part of plans to find a new private sector owner.

Washington DC: Court says 277 hospitals can challenge Medicare reimbursements

Doctor accused of bringing guns into a Trump hotel makes plea deal

ObamaCare (ACA) death spiral June 2018: “…WE HAD THE WORST YEAR…EVER…”

“we need to get the life expectancy out of them.”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, July 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction and chicanery announcements in July 2018:

The Washington Post: Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside

The Guardian:  Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: Verizon shutting down its call center in Huntsville,  some employees will continue working from home while others will get laid off.

Facebook to Build $750M [spy] Data Center in Huntsville

ARKANSAS: Hewlett-Packard to Lay Off 500 in Conway

CALIFORNIA: Univision continues killing jobs, this time an additional 6% of its workforce.  San Francisco based rideshare Uber suddenly laid off about 1-hundred ‘self-drive’ employees across the U.S., apparently due to self-drive accidents!  Sony Pictures suddenly laid off 25 people. Mountain View based InfoTech company Tintri now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Entertainment marketer Ant Farm issued a shutdown WARN for its Los Angeles office, 80 jobs gone in September. In Palo Alto, Space Systems/Loral revealed they laid off 109 people last month!  Fabless semiconductor maker Cavium issued a layoff WARN for three locations, 45 jobs gone by September.  In Mountain View, ‘data protection’ company Veritas Technologies revealed it laid off 71 people, back in April.  Marvel Semiconductor issued layoff WARNs for two locations, 45 jobs gone by September.  Taylor Communications revealed it shutdown its Livermore ops last month, 37 jobs killed without warning.  Embedded software company Wind River Systems issued a layoff WARN for its Alameda location, 64 jobs gone by Mid-September. iPayment issued a layoff WARN for its Westlake Village location, 30 jobs gone by mid-September.

 A shadow workforce of contract labor keeps Google humming

Layoffs and Management Shuffles Plague Seagate 

Tesla, Pushing for Profit, Faces New Questions Over Finances

Tesla finally hits weekly production target for Model 3 

Elon Musk’s ‘pedo’ attack rattles Tesla investors: ‘This thing is unraveling’

COLORADO: Phone-book publisher turned tech company reveals Denver-area layoffs

CONNECTICUT: What housing market recovery? Online based home loan lender The Money Source suddenly laid off 60 people across the U.S., unnamed victims reported to industry news media that they were only told to attend a webinar where they were informed they were no longer employed.

State taxpayers forced to ‘loan’ Chinese tech company $10-million USD to set up shop in Connecticut!

FLORIDA: Taxpayer funded Space Coast Launch Services eliminating 102 jobs by the end of September!

Industry leaders sound off on Orlando’s high-tech disconnect

GEORGIA: High-level Georgia Tech administrators out after internal audit

IDAHO:  InfoTech company Sykes issued a shutdown WARN for its Boise call center, 640 jobs gone, asks police to be present! Also in Boise, Marvel Semiconductor issued a WARN, 16 jobs gone in September.  Now bankrupt busted Tintri has city of Lewiston upset because they’re on year one of a three year contract: “We put a lot of money into these Tintri boxes, and we need to get the life expectancy out of them.”-Danny Santiago

North Idaho tech innovator arrested under suspicion of domestic battery

Idaho Inmates Hacked Prison Service for $225000 in Credit

Taxpayers forced to give Wendell High students new laptops

ILLINOIS: The new owner of computer driven Chicago Stock Exchange suddenly laid off about 12 people (the new owner is New York Stock Exchange). Chicago based in-flight wi-fi Gogo laid off 55 people, possibly in connection with problems with its new airliner wi-fi antennas.

Nutrien buys startup Agrible for $63M

INDIANA: Electronic resistor maker CTS issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Elkhart, 103 jobs gone by Xmas!

Soon taxpayers will be forced to fund a new public school district  ‘financial monitoring system’, in an attempt to halt the massive numbers of school district financial failures!

IOWA: Iowa Wireless/T-Mobile eliminating 27 jobs in Cedar Rapids, by November.

KENTUCKY: Lexington based Lexmark eliminating at least 1-thousand jobs globally!

MARYLAND: Tech engineering company Sierra Nevada lays off ‘approximately 40’ at Hagerstown-area facility

MASSACHUSETTS: Data storage firm Western Digital to close Marlborough office

F5 Networks ….plans to close an office in Massachusetts

MICHIGAN: Teleperformance USA shutdown its Grand Rapids call center, 91 jobs goneCharter Communications laying off 111 people at two locations in August!

MINNESOTA: Information solutions company NCS Pearson issued a WARN, 82 jobs in Bloomington gone in September.

Great Lakes Polymer Technologies plant in Albert Lea to close

Duluth confronts expensive reality of school tech push

MISSOURI: BJC HealthCare suddenly laid off 113 InfoTech employees and contractors, in connection to its new Epic go-live ops!

Another 40 employees laid off at EaglePicher Technologies

MONTANA: Five workers in Butte, 100 in Moses Lake lose REC Silicon jobs

NEVADA: After forcing utility customers to pay for car charging stations and revealing that most of its revenue actually comes from casinosTesla awards a piddly $1.5 Million To Nevada STEM programs.  Other news reports say Tesla will donate $37-million in total, albeit spread over five years.

‘All humanity has left the area’: paying for Tesla’s Gigafactory

NEW HAMPSHIRE: California  based software maker Extreme Networks WARNing it could eliminate as many as 99 jobs at its ops in Salem, apparently no reason was given.

NEW JERSEY: Taxpayers forced to give $5-million USD to save the main stream news media!  or New Jersey’s Experiment in State-Funded News

NEW YORK: The Illinois based owner of New York Daily News suddenly laid off 93 people. In Painted Post, Sitel shutting down its call center, 184 jobs gone before Halloween! Brooklyn-NYC based advertiser Laundry Service eliminating 45 jobs by October, including its founder.

NORTH DAKOTA: Investigation discovers that State College of Science’s workforce TrainND computer system is a technical failure resulting in “improprieties, or incorrect reporting”!

OHIO: ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM OF TOMORROW unsure of status of 2,300 students

PENNSYLVANIA: Aptiv acquires Winchester Interconnect in $650 million agreement

Medtronic closing office & eliminating 63 jobs

SOUTH CAROLINA: InfoTech company Sykes shutting down its Greenwood ops, 213 jobs gone by mid-September!

TEXAS: Circuit board maker Dynalyst now chapter 11 bankrupt busted with more than $1-million USD in debts. San Antonio Express News laid off 20 people.

UTAH: IM Flash to lay off 7% of Utah workforce

VERMONT: WCAX to Cut Production Staff

WASHINGTON: Seattle based multi-cloud F5 Networks laying off 230 InfoTech employees, despite still advertising for more than 3-hundred open jobs and claiming to have made $150-million USD in profits! China based Ofo Bikeshare halting U.S. ops, including in leftist liberal Seattle where local news media speculated that the city’s plans to regulate bike sharing is the reason.  Germany based InfoTech/logistics company Arvato issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Yakima, 168 jobs gone by the end of September!

Washington DC: DC-based tech start-up FiscalNote to buy CQ Roll Call

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, June 2018: “REDEPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES”

School crimes skyrocketing!: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., July 2018

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

 Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.

“Sesame Street is taking its beloved, critically acclaimed brand of educational television into the highly profitable world of classroom curriculum — a move that experts say could open the door for other companies to move into the sensitive learning space with possible influence on children.”-Associated Press

Nature-Genetics: Scientific study of 1.1-million people proves your DNA affects your ability to stay in school!

The Washington Post: Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside

Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, July 2018:

ALABAMA: At least 46 Alabama students disciplined for making threats since Parkland

Alabama labels 75 schools ‘failing’ 

Proof it’s still about the ‘jocks’ and not education as University of Alabama opens $15M dining hall for athletes

Paranoid City of Dothan wants to hire 19 more school police officers

school police officer facing three charges of sex crimes

State health and education departments make immunization records easier to get

You know things are bad when a school supply give away is called Christmas in July

ALASKA: Rural students need support

Federal taxpayers fund Refugee/immigrant Students Backpacking program

vandalism of Alpenglow Elementary

ARIZONA: The Art Institutes of Phoenix shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Why Arizona Is Building Tiny Homes for School Teachers

California students flocking to universities in Arizona

specialty license plates garner $1.45M for education

Former Scottsdale school district CFO under indictment breaks silence

ARKANSAS: Panel Calls For Every School To Have An Armed Presence

Mental Health Counseling for Students Must be Priority

Taxpayers raped of $13.6-million USD for school-to-work program

Taxpayers spend $540-thousand to help one school district buy building for use as health clinic.

CALIFORNIA: In San Diego, after 53 years Adams Avenue Bookstore shutdown, the owners said it made more sense to sell the building than to continue selling books.  The Art Institutes of San Bernardino, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Ana shutting down, more than 5-hundred jobs gone by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!   Privately run Argosy University campuses in Alameda, Ontario and San Diego shutting down, about 150 jobs gone by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!

Celerity charter network closes a school

Auditors call for criminal investigation of Montebello school system

How one California county is criminalizing bad grades

Los Angeles school board member pleads guilty to conspiracy and resigns

Lawsuit over state’s literacy education can proceed

In high gang violence areas police “…found that school buses were dropping off students from different gangs at the same time.” 

Judge Considers Injunction Against Anti-Islamophobia Program In San Diego Schools

COLORADO:  The Art Institutes of Denver shutting down, 160 jobs gone by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run Argosy University in Denver shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.  Kinder Haus Learning Center shutdown, Mesa County Public Health says the shutdown aggravates the local child care crisis as Kinder Haus was the largest provider in the county.

19 students hospitalized after school bus crash

Colorado Springs School District 11 wants to sell a parcel of vacant land that was slated for a new school

Taxpayers shell out $20-million USD for new District 49 school

You know things are bad when a taxpayer funded school supply give away is called Christmas in August

CONNECTICUT: New Haven Public Schools eliminating 37 teacher, librarian, and counselor jobs due to an audit that showed there weren’t enough students to justify the positions.

Teacher, Supervisors Arrested After Alleged Abuse

Bond raised for special ed teacher charged with sexually abusing students

Police Probe Alleged Criminal Conduct At School Events

DELAWARE:  claims suggest DOE Secretary lied during audit 

FLORIDA: The Art Institutes of Fort Lauderdale shutting down, 148 jobs gone by Xmas, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run Argosy University in Sarasota shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Florida Increases Student Surveillance

At least 1040 teachers out of jobs after failing state test

Charter school amendment triggers School Board dispute

‘No homework’ policy gets bad grade

Manatee County principal under criminal investigation

Four-star university freshman footballer charged with two felonies

First class of armed school cops sworn in Polk County

GEORGIA: School District with less than 3-hundred students gets taxpayer funding to make upgrades to offer “anything that a bigger school would offer.”

New this year, sexual abuse education

Gwinnett Schools in sexual assault lawsuit

assistant principal, teacher arrested for alleged sex crime

teacher sentenced to 2 years in prison for firing gun in class

High-level Georgia Tech administrators out after internal audit

Student says ‘My Rifle Makes Me An Athlete, Not A Criminal

GUAM: Trial set in teacher’s sexual misconduct case

school supplies still needed

HAWAII: New law allows schools to sell products

State Revokes Charter Of Big Island School

School DESTROYED by Kilauea Volcano 

Kamehameha Schools and plaintiffs announce settlement

IDAHO: State education superintendent amended campaign reports after paying herself $2400

Taxpayers forced to pay $375-thousand USD per year to hire 15 unarmed security guards for Twin Falls School District

Xavier Charter School voted unanimously to allow a school employee to carry a concealed firearm on campus.

Taxpayers forced to give Wendell High students new laptops

Idaho is last in pre-K participation

IDAHO TEACHER SALARIES RANK LOWEST IN NATION

College of Southern Idaho claims increase in revenues, no ‘external’ debt!

In Mormon dominated School District 25 (aka Chubbuck/Pocatello) students experiencing skyrocketing disciplinary problems, “More children were expelled… …and even elementary students got in trouble more often for threats, drug possession and sexual offenses.” 

ILLINOIS: The Art Institutes of Chicago and Schaumburg shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run Argosy University in Schaumburg shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.  Rush University Medical Center outsourcing 110 jobs! 

After years of  mass layoffs schools continue to face teacher shortage (really?)

School, trainer sued over alleged sex crimes

83 school districts flagged by State Board of Education for high rates of suspension and expulsion for three consecutive years.

How Public (taxpayer funded) Education Ranks In Illinois

Investigation discovers that State Board of Education itself caused spike to taxpayer-funded pension

INDIANA: The Art Institutes of Indianapolis shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Gary schools hit the real estate market

teen gang connected to at least 24 violent crimes

State taxpayers to provide handheld metal detector wands to local schools

police arrested teen at school for having e-cigarette

Teacher accused of intentionally making a special restraining chair for autistic student!

Student accused of bringing gun to Griffith High School 

Soon taxpayers will be forced to fund a new public school district  ‘financial monitoring system’, in an attempt to halt the massive numbers of school district financial failures!

IOWA:  University of Iowa furloughed (supposedly temporary layoffs) 33 people and is shutting down seven ‘centers’ and selling off property, due cuts in state taxpayer funding.

The University of Iowa Labor Center is one of the seven centers slated for closure due to budget cuts.

Taxpayers forced to pay an additional $1.13-million USD for Davenport School District’s “emergency” security funding!

Waterloo, Nashua educators’ licenses suspended for drinking at work

Complaint filed against Schools for use of restraints, seclusion

KANSAS: Two workers shot on Kansas elementary school playground

No felony charges against teacher accused of sex crimes

middle school teacher granted probation

sheriff proposes arming teachers

Reward increased for info about the murder of an immigrant Harmon High School wrestler 

Taxpayers funding new mental health program for five school districts

Taxpayers forced to pay $5-million USD for school security

KENTUCKY:  Kentucky State University eliminating 75 jobs (40 vacant positions and 35 filled positions) in an attempt to reduce labor costs by $2.3-million USD, partly blamed on a 6.25% reduction in state taxpayer funding.

Fayette school board approves tax increase for school safety

Kentucky schools ranked 20th

State offers settlement in Jefferson County Public Schools takeover case

School district sells three empty buildings at huge loss to taxpayers

LOUISIANA: God’s own Loyola University New Orleans suddenly laid off more than 24 people, and suspended its payments into the employee retirement 403(b) plan.  The christian university is dealing with a deficit of more than $25-million USD blamed, in part, to the sudden and unexpected loss of 2-hundred freshmen students back in 2013 (The Rapture?).

Little change in public school performance from last school year

Director of School for the Deaf replaced as part of state level staff shakeup

New state law allows families paying private school tuition a tax break

private schools could face sanctions if voucher students opt to go elsewhere

Louisiana leads the nation in high school seniors asking for federal tax-dollars to help pay for college

Southern University students will have to pay more

MAINE:  After 141 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) god’s own sexist Maine Girls’ Academy-Saint Elizabeth’s Academy shutdown due to lack of students (The Rapture?).

School ban on cell phones blamed for cell phone addiction?

MARYLAND: Incredibly high graduation rate at DuVal High School now considered a scandal

Maryland schools CEO handed six-figure severance payout

Restraining order remains in place against school board chairman

Asian students ask for a day off on Asian calendar Lunar New Year

new law allows students to bring sunscreen to school

MASSACHUSETTS:  Schools allowed to continue electric shock torture of students!

defunct New England Institute of Art/Brookline Art College accused of lying about employment success of graduates

Charter school funding formula is broken

Fall River schools gets 453-thousand federal taxpayer ‘hurricane relief’ dollars for enrolling 152 students from Puerto Rico!

New law lets juveniles off

MICHIGAN: The Art Institutes of Novi shutting down, 114 jobs gone by Xmas, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!  Privately run South University in Novi shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

“Federal education officials say Michigan is the only state in the U.S. that needs intervention after failing to meet federal special education requirements”

Students in Detroit Are Suing the State Because They Weren’t Taught to Read

University of Michigan doctor charged with yet more sex crimes

MINNESOTA: Capella University issued a layoff WARN, 125 jobs gone in August!

boys sue to join girls high school dance teams

Duluth confronts expensive reality of school tech push

District 518 in violation of special education rules

District 518 battle now includes criminal charges

Teen sentenced for threatening Futures School

Lincoln Park Junior High School teacher accused of sex crimes back in court

Austin school district to raise lunch prices, blames federal government

MISSISSIPPI: Gov’na orders takeover of Noxubee schools

Starkville teacher charged with child exploitation

Sex Education Lessons From Mississippi And Nigeria

Convicted Columbus music teacher gets appeal

School principal arrested for DUI 

MISSOURI: Immigrant student from India, attending University of Missouri-Kansas City, murdered 

University of Missouri’s Columbia campus raises a record $147-million in donations!

Lindbergh is the last taxpayer funded school district where parents pay out-of-pocket for kindergarten

STEM bill vetoed because unAmerican corporate America wrote it!

Federal court orders change to local school board elections

Charter school parents deserve a say in lawsuit

Without warning one of the oldest charter schools in Kansas City suddenly shuts down

Brentwood woman stole $8000 from high school PTO

Gunshots during a football scrimmage at Saint Mary’s High School

Missouri is known as a haven for child marriages.

MONTANA: Victim of high school shooting released from hospital, then arrested

Teen denies Bozeman High School bomb threat

teacher who was convicted for assaulting student selected for new teaching job

Former teacher may have probation revoked due to new sex offense charge

teacher charged with sexually assaulting a student

NEBRASKA: State’s top educator says he’s ‘sick’ of racist comments

For a few terrible hours, Nebraska City feared a school shooting

Walthill school failed to provide special education services

Test scores at Schuyler Central don’t make the grade

New Millard policy prohibits texting between teachers and students

Taxpayers funding $75-million USD in renovations for UNL

Taxpayers funded $43.9-million Student Health Center

NEVADA: After forcing utility customers to pay for car charging stations and revealing that most of its revenue actually comes from casinosTesla awards a piddly $1.5 Million To Nevada STEM programs.  Other news reports say Tesla will donate $37-million in total, albeit spread over five years.

Clark County School District hired 105 special ed teachers, all of them foreigners!

Feuding teachers’ unions battle over package delivery

Marijuana tax money for schools: Where is it going?

NEW HAMPSHIRE: PSU Teams Up With Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network of N.H. to Address Bullying in Schools  (when they say ‘address’ does that mean they’re sending them a letter in the mail?)

Parents Think Of Leaving due to new Franklin School Budget

criminal probe of school lunch program

School counselor gets 2½ years for teen sex assault

EPA Money To Address Asbestos In Schools

Accreditation’s Insidious Impact On Higher Education

NEW JERSEY: Why are so many high school students leaving New Jersey?

Too many school boards wasting too much money

Ewing school teacher gets fired amid child sex crimes

ACLU sues 12 school districts for being anti-illegal immigrant

Another Catholic school announces closure

NEW MEXICO: State loses education lawsuit over Constitutional Rights

UNM No. 1 in stolen autos

Youth gangs on rise in Santa Fe

Man who pled guilty to felony appointed to Luna college board

New Mexico Nursing Education Consortium secures only a fraction of what’s needed for yearly budget

Brain drain hurts New Mexico

NEW YORK: The ‘future leaders’ of America prove they are prejudice when New York University students express disdain for the Supreme Court nominee, days before the President made the nomination!  One prejudiced and politically out-o-touch student even said the “…the new nominee is like racist, and he’s starting a new wave of something very negative…”  God’s own Niagara Catholic Junior/Senior High School shutdown without warning, due to a “significant” reduction in church funding and students (The Rapture?).  Conduent Education Services halting ops in Utica, at least 129 jobs affected by Halloween!

Trooper Is Killed Answering Call to Home of School Principal

Mental health education now required 

Special ed teacher convicted of sex crimes, now pleads guilty to welfare fraud

Does Admissions Exam for Elite High Schools Measure Up? No One Knows

Speed Cameras shutoff in NYC School Zones

Taxpayer funded public schools to educate students about Sikhism

NORTH CAROLINA: The Art Institutes Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run South University in High Point shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

How does North Carolina rank for education?

Teachers view student behavior differently based on race

The Rise Of Charter Schools 

School board makes gutsy decision not to give taxpayer money to its own state government lobby group!

NORTH DAKOTA: For the first time ever, the state Department of Public Instruction asked Native Americans about their education desires!!!

Junior High teacher arrested and accused of enticing boys to have sex with her

Teacher facing drug charges loses license

Minot Teachers at fault 

Number of students who can’t speak English increasing

Investigation discovers that State College of Science’s workforce TrainND computer system is a technical failure resulting in “improprieties, or incorrect reporting”!

North Dakota State University prepping to lose 3-hundred students this school year!

“North Dakota State University has clearly demonstrated negligence which led to dozens of animal deaths, I must insist that you take the most severe action allowable under the Animal Welfare Act and immediately begin the process of issuing the maximum fine allowable…..$10,000 per infraction/ per animal”

Despite oil revenues, the state university system faces lowest taxpayer budget in a decade!

OHIO: Wright State University eliminating 26 jobs in accordance with its new budget.  Privately run South University in Cleveland shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Investigation Reveals Thousands Of Ohio K-3 Students Suspended Each Year!!!

U.S. DoE leader’s $40 million yacht vandalized in Ohio

taxpayers paid $7.7 million to renovate charter-school 

ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM OF TOMORROW unsure of status of 2,300 students

Thousands Of Ohio Seniors Unsure of Graduation Status

Uncertainty and confusion for school districts promised funding windfall from gas pipeline 

Summit Academy Secondary School violations

Open Enrollment actually covert Segregation?

More Than 100 Former Ohio State Students Allege Sexual Misconduct

Ohio State football wide receiver coach fired amid allegations of domestic violence

Ohio State University gets record $600M in donations 

OKLAHOMA:  University of Oklahoma eliminating one third of executive jobs in an attempt to keep student tuition from being increased.

Lottery proceeds for education top $63 million thanks to new law

Declining state taxpayer funding caused by declining student enrollment, yet local school districts say they need more money despite fewer students

Taxpayers forced to pay Tulsa Public Schools administrators who were not certified and did not have employment contracts!

Education Board charter school Langston Hughes Academy on probation

pervasive hunger impacting school, workplace

Judge says Bixby High School football players committed rape

Hartshorne schools allow trained teachers to carry firearms

OREGON: The Art Institutes of Portland shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.  It leaves “students scrambling for ways to continue their education.”

Dallas School District ordered by state to provide more special education

teacher arrested in drug case could return to classroom

Leftist liberal school district forces taxpayers to shell-out $25-thousand USD, because the district illegally suspended a student for wearing a Trump t-shirt!

PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh based Education Management (the now former owner of Art Institute) now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and liquidating.  The Art Institutes of Philadelphia shutting down, 171 jobs gone by the end of August, the new corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!

Chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School spending up to 20 months in federal prison, for his part in an $8-million USD taxpayer scam.

Property tax rates going up because of schools, “It’s getting tougher each month to pay that” says a retired homeowner on a fixed income who just got hit with a 2.4% increase in property tax.

Lancaster County school districts raise property taxes as much as 6.3 percent!

Taxpayers forced to spend $2-million to license more people as teachers

How Perverse Incentives Leave Struggling School Districts Behind

Pennsylvania has among the biggest student loan debt

Investigation says Hazleton Area School District has a bullying problem

Emmaus High School forces students to watch LGBT videos, yet bans parents

Influx of Puerto Rican families challenges school district

Massive Fire Rips Through Delaware County Catholic School

Holy-er than thou christian school principal says city kids need to be taught “to be quiet, clean and orderly.”!

SOUTH CAROLINA: The Art Institutes Charleston shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition, Students left dangling.

Cost of replacing a principal: $24000

Education still an obstacle

Tax credits for college tuition just got supersized

Charleston County Schools forced taxpayers to give $64000 to marketing company

school district abolished snow days

RHODE ISLAND: More high schoolers consider suicide

$25-million USD taxpayer funded Providence Public Library redeux will somehow create ‘lifetime education’

North Providence school chief accused of using taxpayer funded credit card for personal purchases

Latinos face hurdles in accessing adult ed classes

Teachers overwhelmed by students who can’t speak English

TENNESSEE: The Art Institutes of Nashville shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition. Privately run Argosy University in Nashville shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Metro Schools Director Accused Of ‘Election Interference’

Principal Sex Scandal Emerges 

Systemic problems in special education

City schools below state averages

Lottery claims it will give nearly $422 million to education

School district replaces snow days with eLearning Days

TEXAS: Privately run Argosy University in Dallas shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

In a Migrant Shelter Classroom

Arrests of students have increased

Number of students accused of making threats triples: “We saw a large number of kids who were being referred to juvenile probation for behaviors like pretending to shoot aliens…” 

Christian mom pleads guilty to trying to hide her high school aged son’s sex crimes, that he committed with elementary students right after going to church!

Administrators to carry guns in east Texas school 

Are college courses for high schoolers worth it? Maybe not

Texas wants to rape taxpayers of nearly $1 billion to help students afford college

UTAH: Privately run Argosy University in Salt Lake City shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

school counselor, custodian charged with sex crimes

Student accused in backpack bomb case to face adult trial

teachers taking up guns in their classrooms

Nebo School District to eliminate cross-dressing ban

VERMONT: Law School revokes tenure for 75% of faculty

Half of towns will see increased property tax rates, in the name of education

Teachers union claims to have plan to eliminate education property tax

Taxpayers forced to give schools $4-million USD for security

VIRGINIA: Mental health classes now required

The model state for school safety still has challenges

Lee County to arm school employees

teacher in child porn case had upskirt images of students

man facing child sex crimes used to be a teacher

Fairfax school system rejects former student’s assault claim

Investigators say elementary school teachers helped students cheat on state exams

WASHINGTON: The Art Institutes in Rosslyn shutting down, 118 jobs gone!

teaching assistant charged with raping child at Seattle school kept job

school board member accused of hitting bicyclist while driving

Students caught in middle of new college credit law confusion

Ocosta School District turning their new school into a Cascadia Event tsunami evacuation structure, as Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe gets 2.2-million taxpayer dollars to create vertical evacuation shelter

Why there aren’t any Native American charter schools

WASHINGTON DC: Education Dept. Illegally Curbed Workers’ Union Protections

Families accused of residency fraud re-enroll at Duke Ellington School

DC schools among nation’s worst

WEST VIRGINIA: Fayette County Board of Education employee accused of theft

“law enforcement teacher at Putnam County’s Career and Technical Center accused of sexual abuse of a student is among 49 people indicted by a Putnam County grand jury” 

school therapist accused of taking pics of naked students pleads guilty

WISCONSIN: school janitor faces child porn charges

State taxpayers forced to give $3.5-million USD for school security

Spanish immersion early childhood center planned in Shorewood

WYOMING: Riverton High School wrestlers face criminal charges for allegedly homo-sexually raping eight younger students on a school bus!

1 in 4 University of Wyoming students experience sexual assault

Reporting On Migrant Education 

Natrona County selling off Grant Elementary school

Dumbing Down U.S.A., June 2018:“LOCKDOWN, LOCKDOWN”