PROVIDENCE – Layoff notices were sent this week to nearly every employee in the Providence Public Library system as the private nonprofit prepares to hand over control of its nine neighborhood branches to the city government.
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We’ve never seen anything like it, and the series hasn’t even started. The Vancouver Canucks, unwavering in their meticulous 39-year march towards the Stanley Cup, will have gone nine days between games — during the playoffs! — when they finally open the National Hockey League’s second round Thursday against the Chicago Blackhawks
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Bad news: Layoffs likely for 2010-11 school yearThanks to conservative budgeting last year, it looks like Northwest College can survive a 10-percent budget cut next year without any layoffs.“For the current year, we estimate that revenues will significantly exceed expenses,” NWC President Paul Prestwich wrote in a campus update on Tuesday. “We are proposing to carry forward some of the excess …
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There have been layoffs today at CBS-owned WBBM-Ch. 2 in Chicago, sources confirm. Reporter Joanie Lum and some behind-the-scenes staffers have been among those cut. The station is said to be discontinuing its weekend morning newscasts.
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