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Starting August 1, the left-wing Ohio newspaper, The Toledo Blade, intends to lay off about 130 of its unionized employees due to a permanent shutdown of its Toledo production center that handles printing and inserting. ... In 2013, The Blade lost $8.5 million and has been losing millions for years. As of now there are no plans that will affect the advertising and news-gathering departments. In 2012, The Toledo Blade urged it readers to re-elect President Obama, arguing in part that "He has dealt effectively with economic recession at home

A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves. The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land. Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.” “Prohibited places of employment,” a Department press release read,...

Posted on Thu, Jan. 21, 2010 No response from Obama to invites BY MOLLY MCMILLIN The Wichita Eagle President Obama has not responded to the Machinists union's invitation to visit Wichita, the union's international president said. Obama has twice been invited to Wichita by Tom Buffenbarger, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The effort has been joined by the governor, senators and leaders of Wichita's planemakers, Buffenbarger said. They want Obama to come to Wichita to see how the downturn and negative remarks made by Congress about the use of private jets has hurt the business...