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Emotional communication failings: Are they to blame for our economic woes? [Colleges]
Emotional communication is everything: a rich but often underappreciated influence in our working lives, enhancing or impeding occupational success, forging meaningful bonds among coworkers, and shaping the moral character of our workplaces. And a successful organizer must understand how to create and manage employees’ feelings, whether they be pride, fear, joy, shame, affection or resentment.
Update: Courier-Journal lays off 50 employees [News]
Sources are telling Louisville.com that 36 employees have been laid off at the Louisville Courier Journal, in what seems to be a nationwide two percent staff reduction by the Courier's parent company Gannett.
Sources tell Louisville.com that some of the cuts are coming from the the weekly Velocity publication and Neighborhoods section. At this point, our sources have told us that among those laid off were:
Senator McConnell says Americans aren’t amused by worsening economy [The Arena]
Amid the onslaught of bad news last week, President Obama’s message was that we’d hit some “bumps in the road” and that people need to be patient in the face of what called economic “headwinds.” He even joked about the wildly mistaken predictions he and others at the White House made a couple years back about the job-creating potential of the Stimulus.
Mayor Fischer says Museum Plaza isn't dead [News]
On a WFPL news special, Louisville's Mayor Greg Fischer took questions from listeners on all things Louisville.
I called in to ask him about the Museum Plaza project.
Senator Scott Brown gives his 10 Cents At UofL [News]
Earlier today I heard Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) speak to a room full of students and reporters at the McConnell Center at U of L. He was there to discuss “his election, recent developments in Washington and the future of American politics after the 2010 midterm elections." Brown famously was elected to the seat left vacant by Ted Kennedy’s death.
End of Bowling at Lyndon Lanes
Forty three years of locally owned neighborhood bowling ends May 23.
$140,000 is a lot of money for a small business. The McCarthy family doesn't have it, and with the whack-a-mole national credit situation, banks aren't in a mood to make loans to something like, say, a beloved neighborhood establishment with a 43 year long history and a loyal client base.
Keeping the stimulus money home: Sugarbaker’s Classy Consignments
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