City planning shift to third-party inspectors
The elimination of Lancaster City's plumbing, electrical and commercial building inspectors sounds like a good idea, acknowledges city plumber Robert Moser."It all looks good on paper," Moser admits, yet, he believes the cost-cutting move will lead to shoddy work being done by unlicensed plumbers th...

Plumbers Union Pressured To Raise Rates
A local union meets while speculation swirls that their national organization could end up costing Volkswagen millions of dollars and send them looking out...

A drain on plumbers: Friday is busiest day of year for their services | By Pamela Dickman Loveland Reporter-Herald
The day after Thanksgiving means leftovers ? turkey, potatoes, gravy, deviled eggs ? to treat the tummy. For plumbers, those treats mean clogged drains and one of the busiest weekends of the year, according to several local plumbers.

Plumbers profit from overstuffed disposals / Thanksgiving Day clogs, cooks' impatience fatten workers' wallets
OGDEN -- Plumbers dream of potato peels, turkey fat, rice and especially pasta for Thanksgiving because those culinary delights make their phones ring the next day.

Plumbers root for Thanksgiving clogs
Black Friday has another meaning for plumbers -- it's their busiest of the year after the food-heavy get-togethers stop up disposals and pipes.

Del Webb to pay $27.2 million in faulty plumbing lawsuit
The developer of the Sun Cities in the Las Vegas Valley has reached a tentative settlement in a class action lawsuit over faulty plumbing.

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The Putnam County Legislature is expecting a full house when it votes tonight on a revised child-safety-zone bill to limit where convicted sex offenders can live and work in the county.

Day After Thanksgiving Busy For Plumbers in Kennewick
Plumbers get a lot of calls for clogged sinks and sewers. Plumbers say you don't want to be putting your chunky left overs down the garbage disposal, because it could get backed up.

Linked Out
Like most people my age, I get most of my news online. I begin the day by checking The New York Times, The Washington Post , and several local papers and blogs.

Building Blocks for Bronx? resurgence
Home to a development deluge and prepped for more, the Bronx is booming.

Demand For Plumbers Up After Thanksgiving Holiday
The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers. Apparently homeowners are also in need of assistance.

Black Friday for Plumbers Too
North Texas plumbers say the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is among their busiest.

Missing state owned truck found on fire
Investigators in Bristol are trying to figure out who took a state owned pickup truck, and how it ended up on fire.

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Putnam lawmakers are considering a bill that would require plumbers, electricians and others who are licensed or registered in the county to use the federal E-Verify program to ensure that their newly hired employees have authorization to work in the U.S.

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CARMEL - The Putnam Legislature last night approved a revised child-safety-zone law that limits where convicted sex offenders can live and work in the county and does not exempt those already in the community.

Plumbers: unsung heroes of the holidays
All the work it takes to put on a Thanksgiving feast also creates work for others. For local plumbers, Thanksgiving is one of the busiest days of the year.

Nurses rally behind disciplined co-workers
With a verbal reprimand issued to a nurse from North Haven Manor and instances where three nurses in Botwood have received one-day suspensions, two have received written reprimands and another Baie Verte nurse also received a written reprimand, nurses across the province joined in a rally of solidarity last Wednesday.

Obamas face new life in 'Goldfish Bowl'
Life in the "Goldfish Bowl" -- What the Obamas Can Expect

Lost Rivers from Above: The Tyburn Part II
Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. The above plan is of a location not far south of the Regents Park ponds, where we left off in Part I . This is in fact Baker Street station, as it looked in 1863 at the establishment of the world's first underground rail service, the Metropolitan Railway. Today the area pictured is the unfashionable end ...

Ten Jobs Unlikely To Be Outsourced Announced
The Department of Labor estimates that since 2000, nearly a million American jobs have been outsourced to other countries, but the agency said some positions are less likely to be shipped overseas.