Lack of Rain Keeps Some TVA Reservoir Levels Below Normal

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Terry D. Combs is appointed Assistant to the Regional Director in NLRB’s Tampa Regional Office

National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon announced the appointment of Terry D. Combs as the Assistant to the Regional Director of the NLRB’s Regional Office in Tampa, Florida (Region 12).  In his new position, Mr. Combs will assist Acting Regional Director Margaret Diaz in the administration and enforcement of the National Labor Relations Act in Florida and southern Georgia. Mr. Combs received a B.S.read more Announcements … [Read more...]

West coast log, lumber exports increased over forty percent in 2011

China remains largest importer of U.S. wood. Pacific Northwest Research Station … [Read more...]

Sherman Reaffirms Support for Adult Education Program

Urges LAUSD to Restore FundingWASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) again urged the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to restore funding for the adult education program and identify options to preserve the program for thousands of students and teachers in the San Fernando Valley and throughout Los Angeles.  In January, Sherman wrote to the LAUSD Board of Education to express his concerns with the plan to eliminate the program.“I understand the predicament the Board of Education faces in making program and staffing cuts to close the budget … [Read more...]

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Report on the Midwinter Meeting of the ABA NLRB Recent General Counsel Memos … [Read more...]

Norm Dicks Statement on the State & Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill, FY2013

"This bill, however, underfunds our nation’s diplomatic efforts, overall development initiatives, and multilateral obligations, while also containing a series of highly controversial legislative riders that neither the President nor the Senate will accept and will inevitably be removed in conference negotiations...I believe that by the end of the process we will be back at the balanced allocation in [the Budget Control Act], and can then repair many of the cuts proposed in this and other House bills."Read more... Commerce … [Read more...]

Pamela W. Scott appointed Resident Officer in NLRB’s Miami Resident Office

National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon announced the appointment of Pamela W. Scott as the Resident Officer of the NLRB’s Resident Office in Miami, Florida (Region 12).  In her new position, Ms. Scott will assist Acting Regional Director Margaret Diaz in the administration and enforcement of the National Labor Relations Act in Florida and southern Georgia. Ms. Scott received a B.A. degree from the University of Maryland at College Park, and a J.D.read more Announcements … [Read more...]

Two Groups Name GAO Among Best Places to Work

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 16, 2011) – The Partnership for Public Service and Washingtonian magazine have included the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in their latest lists of the best places to work.The Partnership for Public Service today released its 2011 rankings of the best places to work in the federal government. GAO Reports … [Read more...]

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Machinists, District Lodge 160, Local Lodge 289 (SSA Marine) NLRB Recent Judges Decisions … [Read more...]

Sage-Grouse on the edge: understanding and managing western landscapes for their survival

Scientists have had little information about how prescribed fire and cattle grazing—common practices in many Western ponderosa pine forests—affect plant abundance and reproduction in the forest understory. Pacific Northwest Research Station scientists began to explore how these practices affect vegetation in a five-year study of postfire vegetation in eastern Oregon ponderosa pine forests where cattle have been routinely pastured from late June or early July through early to mid August. For this area of eastern Oregon, they found that excluding cattle grazing during peak growing season … [Read more...]