Obama: (declares) Emergency for NC ahead of Irene

[uppityperson]

Source: Ap



President Barack Obama has declared an emergency for North Carolina that is expected to be hit by Hurricane Irene over the weekend.

Obama on Thursday night ordered federal aid to supplement state and local responses to the storm.

The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) can coordinate all disaster relief efforts.

It also means the state is eligible for federal funds to help in cleanup and other needs....(more)

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRENE_OBAMA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[Fearless]

1. Now lets bring that proactiveness to politics too? n/t

[UnrepentantLiberal]

2. I think he just did.

[Fearless]

3. Where?

[UnrepentantLiberal]

4. I meant he's trying to be proactive as far as winning in 2012.

[Fearless]

5. If he tried by being more pro-union I'd be more receptive I guess.

[jaxx]

7. New rule requires union rights posters at work

New rule requires union rights posters at work

Aug 25, 12:05 PM (ET)

By SAM HANANEL

WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Labor Relations Board has approved a new rule that requires private employers to display posters that tell workers about their right to form a union.

The rule requires businesses to prominently display the new posters that explain the right to bargain collectively, distribute union literature and engage in other union activities without reprisal.

Union advocates say the rule gives workers information they should know about their legal rights. But business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, say the posters will make it appear the government is encouraging workers to join unions and will create a more favorable climate for union organizing.

<..> Business groups have complained that the board, under the Obama administration, has taken a number of aggressive steps favorable to unions, which are trying to reverse years of membership declines. The board is poised to issue a much broader rule later this year that would allow votes to unionize workplaces to move more quickly, something unions have long sought.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20110825/D9PB75E80.html

[Fearless]

8. I am aware, that is why I said MORE pro-union.

I don't think he is anti-union. I think he needs help understanding that the American people deserve help before corporations.

[jaxx]

9. People need to remember the dive this country was in......

if all business fails there are no jobs. Survival isn't always pretty.

[Fearless]

10. I disagree.

People are already starving while millionaires and billionaires are raking in record profits. This crisis was manufactured and is being sold to the American people in spades.

[jaxx]

11. My guess is we'll never know all the truth about it.

There is a great deal of unfair money on Wall St., but how to get to it is something else. Ethics don't matter to them, maybe dubya knows.

[Jefferson23]

6. Good to be prepared...good luck North Carolina. n/t

[kickysnana]

12. Warning from Minneapols, that does not include black neighborhoods. n/t

[uppityperson]

13. What? Would you please let me know what you mean? Thanks. nt

[kickysnana]

14. Sure.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/06/14/fema-tornado-aid/

Minneapolis — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied Minnesota's request for individual assistance to victims of last month's tornado that touched down in and around Minneapolis.

FEMA officials say they denied the request for federal individual assistance because the agency determined that the state of Minnesota has enough resources to help property owners and renters.

FEMA spokeswoman Holly Stephens says the decision was also based on the amount of volunteer help that is available to victims of the storm.

http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/127132898.html

Eleven weeks after the May 22 tornado ripped through north Minneapolis, the phone at Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis rings twice a day, on average, with someone affected by the storm calling for help.

Often, the one picking up the phone is Drew Schaffer, recently appointed tornado response coordinator. He and other volunteer lawyers at Legal Aid and another Minneapolis group are doing pro bono work for 145 tornado victims in the low-income area.

To Schaffer, the volume of calls understates the level of need in the community, based on the kinds of landlord-tenant problems that have cropped up since the tornado. He has heard of landlords not returning security deposits after residents have left uninhabitable homes, delaying repairs and threatening eviction of tenants who refuse to pay back rent for time when their unit was uninhabitable.

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There is about one story every two weeks about people still just being sent in circles trying to get some help.

[uppityperson]

15. Thank you.