By PUMA Pundit on August 3, 2009
Interesting how ‘exotic financial instruments’ are blamed and not the fact that those who were supposed to look after the county’s finances failed to do their jobs… Reuters Alabama’s debt-ridden Jefferson County laid off about two-thirds of its 3,600 employees on Monday because of plummeting revenues, a move that will sharply curtail services in areas [...]
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By PUMA Pundit on December 3, 2008
I knew it was coming, and finally here it is… A small central Alabama county whose mainly black residents gave Barack Obama more than 70 percent of the vote on Election Day has created an annual holiday in honor of the president-elect.The Perry County Commission voted 4 to 1 to observe the second Monday in [...]
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