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Wiggle Room: Why employers pay what they pay

Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:07 Julie Desmond

Is there any wiggle room in the salary? Can they go any higher on the pay? Will they bend at all on the dollar amount? Not surprisingly, people considering accepting a job offer commonly ask for “a little more.” Some people think they have to. They want to tell their friends and former colleagues about their negotiating prowess and to feel the power that seems to come with starting a new job on one’s own terms.

That’s what Christmas is all about

Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:13 Timothy Houston

What is Christmas all about? What is the real meaning of Christmas? In 1965, CBS debut the animated TV special “A Charlie Brown Christmas” to address this all important question. At the beginning of t...

Shift wasteful defense spending to domestic needs

Monday, 23 July 2012 14:14 Fred Easter

Nobody asked me, but a lot of people are paying attention to the wrong set of facts. I hear Tea Party politicians complaining about the deficit. They say that Obamacare and Medicare are too costly, no...

(Artspeak) Lest We Forget...

Thursday, 19 March 2009 14:05 Irma McClaurin, PhD

I have learned over time that it is always good to listen when Elders speak. And when someone as prolific and sanguine as John Edgar Wideman opens his mouth, we’d be fools not to hungrily hang onto h...

Dead Man Down: Revenge-minded neighbors enter pact in convoluted thriller

Monday, 18 March 2013 13:56 Kam Williams

Grief-stricken Lazlo Kerick (Colin Farrell) never recovered from the gruesome murder of his wife (Beata Dalton). It came on orders from a vicious mob boss intent on preventing her from testifying in c...

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