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I noticed on the KGW story online they listed the dianedowns.com website. I followed the link and it was an entire site created by her father about evidence pointing to her innocence. I thought it was strange for the news source to leave that link at the end of story without additional information. I do not think there is a lot of sympathy for her case but it added some credibility to his argument to be linked on the site. I was surprised that they didn't just say "her family maintains a web site that supports her innocence" and leave it at that. Off the point of this program but strange that the posted a link.

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As I was listening to the record unemployment figures this morning and also about the threat of mass layoffs by the automakers I was wondering how efficient those big 3 are as employers? How many people do they directly employ per $1 million in revenue for example. (not including suppliers or retired pension recipients etc)

As a small business we employ 8 people. I am wondering if we employ more or less people than the mega corps when compared to revenue. I think we need to look at what composes good employment. The automaker's union jobs are a good example of living wage jobs that include benefit packages etc. I think as we are hearing about ideas for job creation it would be interesting to look at what type of jobs are created and how they meet or fall short of the social need.
Just a thought . . . I have a few more I will submit.
Sarah L
NE Portland

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