On Plant neighbor launches sign campaign
Posted on July 31 at 9:26 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I find it ironic that people want to shut this down yet keep GM open. (Granted they may not be the same people) I can hear the GM plant over a mile away and while I do not have the data, I can certainly bet that emmisions from GM and its suppliers far exceed this one plant in Milton. The area around GM is a huge eyesore to this community and while the ethanol plant is not great to look at its visual impact is certainly less appauling that the GM smoke stack.
I do feel for the direct neighbors but they should really throttling the Milton residents that bought into this co-op, paving the way for the possibility of a plant in the first place. Classic case of NIMBY.
On Permitting underage children to drink at home is a question of parenting, not the law
Posted on July 5 at 1:47 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
the US is the only counrty in the developed world that has a drinking age of 21, in most countries it is 18 or 19, yet driking deaths for those ages is the highest in the US - hmmm.
On Will the General Motors plant in Janesville remain open through the end of 2010?
Posted on June 9 at 4:45 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
For the people that think the town/county will die without GM - look at the numbers: GM represented only 5% or the county's total payroll. Add in services to GM for another 3%, tops - this is by no means as devastating to the total picture as people are stating. Its a less than 10% drop across the board only if those GM'er stop spending the day the plant closes. We all know that they will be paid for up to 2 years after the closing or find other work. Either way they will keep spending on food, clothes and gas.
Posted on June 4 at 10:22 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
People keep blaming high gas prices - essentially quoting what GM stated as the reason it shut the plants down. That is all spin by GM. Their failure to see where the car market was going compared to its competition, its granting the UAW of obsenely high wages on local and global level for its "brothers and sisters" is incredibly short sighted if you want succeed in a global marketplace for a job the requires no trainning or education before you walk in the door, are the real culprits here.
Why isn't GM turning the plant back to smaller cars the way it was in the early 90's If gas prices alone are the reason? The plant is too old and the wages and beni's are too high.
There is a reason there are "no jobs like these anymore"...it is simply not sustainable economically to support them. Look at Honda and Toyota's business model in the US - higher quality than GM, Ford and Chysler and no union labor.
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On Winter storm watch issued
Posted on December 7 at 5:46 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
a noted result of climate change is more severe weather patterns globally and longer winters in wisconsin. to suggest climate change is not happening because the term global warming is misused, is simply an uneducated statement.