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Cry the beloved CEOs and their 2.2 percent pay raises
IT'S TIME TO SHED A TEAR for those bloated, overpaid chief executive officers I often beat up on. Shocking as it may seem, over the past four years the total pay of U.S. CEOs has risen just 2.2 percent annually. That isn't much different from the paltry raises they give their employees. I reached th is conclusion after I did a study of 688 CEOs, all of whom had held their job for the years 2001 through 2005.Give me life, liberty and a cheap tank of gas
When President Barack Obama took his deficit reduction show on the road last week, he found audiences had more on their minds than spending cuts and tax increases. "What are you doing about gas prices" someone at a town hall-style meeting at North Virginia Community College in Annandale wanted to know. The reaction of town hall attendees to soaring gas prices, which hit a nationwide average of $3.Nichols lawyers renew request to block DA from prosecuting accused gunman
ATLANTA AP - Defense lawyers for a man accused of killing four people in a shooting spree that began inside a courthouse renewed their request Tuesday seeking to block the district attorney's office from prosecuting their client. Brian Nichols' defense team also filed a copy of a letter it sent to Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard on Dec.Shifting Burdens:Age Discriminationin Employment Act
Lynn KochSpecial to the Daily ReportRecent cases from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Georgia's federal district courts highlight the difficulties that plaintiffs encounter in asserting claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.Threshold IssuesThe first hurdle that a plaintiff must clear is establishing that the ADEA applies to his claim of age discrimination.Ga. judge hears case pitting Navy vs. rare whales
BRUNSWICK, Ga. AP - Environmentalists asked a federal judge Thursday to decide whether the Navy must halt plans to build a $100 million offshore training range because of potential threats to endangered right whales.The Navy wants to install an undersea array of cables and sensors for training warships, submarines and aircraft about 50 miles off the Atlantic coast of southern Georgia and northern Florida.Two more judicial hopefuls' eligibility contested
The candidacies of attorneys hoping to unseat judges in the Augusta and Northern judicial circuits have been challenged, with protests asserting that each owes tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes and is thus ineligible for office.Appeals court to decide fate of detainee lawsuits
By Toni Locy, Associated Press WASHINGTON AP - A federal appellate court pressed the Bush administration Wednesday to say how much authority judges have in examining hundreds of claims by detainees challenging the legality of their detentions at Guantanamo Bay.The three-judge panel is being asked to decide whether the Detainee Treatment Act, signed by President Bush on Dec.Trending Stories
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