Employers

The new director of the Workforce Development Board is Francisco Marquez, former adviser to the Governor’s Office and chief executive officer at the San Gabriel Economic Partnership. The WDB sponsors job training programs for youths and adults,...

About every 15 minutes, trains block a busy corridor in the near west suburbs — a problem so frustrating that state officials created a special board to oversee construction of a tunnel or bridge. That was nearly 12 years ago. The agency has yet to...

Seattle Mariners President & Chief Operating Officer Chuck Armstrong announced today that Executive Vice President & General Manager of Baseball Operations Jack Zduriencik has agreed on a multi-year extension of his existing contract. Per club policy,...

When Dwayne Yoder, Somerset, was helping take care of his elderly parents, he found that it was difficult to find the time to do all the chores that needed to be done. “It would have been nice if there had been services like personal grocery...

The bedsheet banner, hanging outside a Jamerson Center window, begged him to stay. "Dutch Don't Go We Need U" But Dale T. "Dutch" Baughman is a cowboy by birth and a rebel at heart. After six contentious months as Virginia Tech's athletic director, he...

Maryland quarterback Danny O'Brien stood on the sidelines at M&T Bank Stadium on a warm summer day, casually watching a seven-on-seven touch football tournament while flipping a ball up and down with his large right hand. So much had happened since the...

Two teachers who are new to the Petoskey school district will be among the faces students see when they begin the 2011-12 school year on Wednesday, Sept. 7. District officials recently hired Sara Jonker, 32, to teach in a multi-age classroom with first...

Theo Epstein didn’t say no to the Cubs’ job. Vic. To. Ry. Lookee, lookee, lookee, kids: Someone really good and smart didn’t say no to a team and an owner and an organization that is really bad and stupid. No “no’’...

The surgery on Don Hayden's son was successful. The only lingering complication: a bill for $23,000. The Gaithersburg family, surprised that insurance didn't cover the cost, spent about a year fighting the charge from the medical clinic — even...

Because Labor Day weekend is upon us, I am passing along to you some insights I have picked up over many years while working to help resolve employment disputes. I hope that they can help you or people close to you in applying for, keeping and being...

Sara Sauer was a fit athlete who played golf and softball at LaVille Junior-Senior High School in Lakeville, but when she graduated in 2004 and got an office job, she ballooned to up to more than 200 pounds. The weight piled on, she said, because of...