Several groups emerge as potential buyers of Sparrows Point

“I told everyone just to relax and wait for the Brazilians to take over Sparrows Point and everyone said that I was a dreamer. The Brazilians really want to run SP full out because they have all the ore the L Furnace could ever ask for. They will have their foothold in the U.S. market, and even export Tin Plate to all of South and Central America.”
– Walter

“Say bye bye to the union if Nucor buys!”
– Crappy Beer

“Mark got this leaked info from RG management team who are busy trying to earn their $20 million bonuses. Bids are private. I am still a skeptic and see through RG just trying to create buzz. Remember RG management gets more $$ if the mills are sold as a ‘going concern.’”
– Sparrows Hater

“CSN:
1) Reduction in work force
2) Everyone starts at new employee pay rate(10.00 to 12.00 $ an hr.)
3) Hugh reduction in health care, and no dental or vision
4) No contribution toward pensions. . .
But on the bright side they will run it full out, and work you till you drop
NUCOR:
1) Will only run the blast furnce, no BOF or Caster
2) May run the Cold Mill, close the rest of the finnishing side, use it for scrap
3) No UNION
4) No health care
5) No pensions
But good pay for the few
RUSSIANS:
1) Reduction in pay
2) Reduction in health care
3) Will run at a reduced rate,and ship in slabs( A.K.A. Severstal)
4) Shutdown finishing side except for Cold Mill
5) Be gone in a couple years, same as see above. Whoever buys SP…..Good luck to all the guys that return, your going to need it.”
– Happy Man
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Anti-abortion signage at Artscape

“Really good point about Occupy. They wouldn’t let that artist Robert McClintock display his artworks cause they’re mediocre, but those posters are okay? I guess the difference is the anti-choice crew has teams of lawyers, and probably some friends at city hall, too.”
– marciejb

“Every human being is a unique creation of God. The human beings on the protesters’ placards are among 44 million killed since Roe v. Wade. But it’s an offense against their dignity that the protesters exploit them in this way. They didn’t choose to be aborted nor could they consent to being part of someone else’s campaign, whatever its motives may be. The protestors are profoundly wrong in their approach.”
– James Hunt

“They are a group of sadistic and pathologically narcissistic individuals whose sole purpose is to shock and dismay innocent passersby with their public obscenities. Their antics gives them a feeling of power and superiority and the more emotional distress they provoke, the more they enjoy it. It has nothing to do with protecting children or morals.”
– FrankM

“I am one of those folks involved in these displays . . .something done in solidarity with the persons whose corpses are pictured in our images. They had no name, no city, no family, no love from any of the self-branded tolerant-and-compassionate crowd.”
– Jordan Mooney

“If I am to have my six year old exposed to this graphic vulgarity then the demonstrators should be responsible for posting that the next mile of Public Roadway is rated MA, or R.”
– TimB
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RG Steel’s bankruptcy yields a feast of billable hours

“I am definitely applying to become a summer intern to make up some of the money that I have lost since being pretty much laid off!”
– Fordtrkfan

“It’s about time somebody in this country stands up to these elitest and why can’t it be us? Maybe the steelworkers can start the beginning of the end for these over- paid, prideless, financial leeches. I wonder how many of them could stand 8 hours in one of our mills?”
– appalledinohio

“Far too many of our citizens have become dupes for the rich. How to reach them is the question. If enough people finalize realize whats going on, then we would have the numbers to throw all those pious, sanctimonious liars who wrap themselves in the flag out like they did in 1932.”
– wciheycraneman

“This is total BS of the highest order.The unions are supposed to have lawyers to protect steelworkers from this form of robbery.”
– Dr. Raymond Boothe

“Has anyone ever watched the movie ” They Live”. Sort of makes you wonder.”
– Guest

“We all are about ready for our Stacy London makeover, I cannot wait!”
– Walter
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Workers say Hyatt management is punishing them for talking to union

“My heart goes out to people who work in hotels–under the best of circumstances, it’s a hard, low paying, largely thankless job. I grew up in a rural area where there were few summer jobs for college students, and I worked as a hotel maid for two summers. The manager of the hotel wouldn’t even let us run air conditioning while we were cleaning rooms, to save money. Some days were so hot, drops of my sweat would fall on the sheets as I was making the beds. I can’t imagine doing that job year round, and can’t begin to imagine how I would hold up physically doing it for decades. Whatever treatment the Hyatt Hotels are giving their employees, people like Ms. Knox deserve much better.
To those who have enough money to pay for a hotel room: would you please consider tipping the maid?”
– JS

“I am all for unionizing the hotel. But $13.20/hour x 80 hours is $1056 every two weeks. Subtract 7.5% for FICA and she’s at 976.80. Subtract 15% for federal income taxes and she’s at $830.28. Subtract another 4.75% for state taxes and she’s down to $790.84. Subtract $72 for insurance, she’s at $718.84 every two weeks.”
– Barnadine the Pirate

“The hotel is cutting hours of regular employees and bringing in temps to pump up their bottom line. Charlotte Knox has probably seen her hours shrink and shrink over the course of her employment at Hyatt. This is just another example of a big corporation suckling off the government subsidized teat while workers suffer. Shame on Hyatt!”
– Proud Pinko

“The Hyatt management called police to escort the workers out and if the workers who protested are fired, what is their protection? Was Ms.Clarke escorted out too? Disgusting! I will never, I mean never, book a room in the Hyatt, ever.”
-Unellu

“When fewer staff are called upon to do more work, workplace injuries result (any OSHA/NIOSH study will prove that). When someone who is asked to pinch-hit in the kitchen without knowing what pot to put fry-oil , burns are inevitable. Worklpace injuries should not be inevitable and workers shouldn’t be viewed as disposable casualties in avoidable workplace accidents.”
– Claudelaw

“Interesting. It seems the Hyatt management has a history on this front…Google the “The Boston 100 Hyatt,” or just check Wikipedia.)”
– AH
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Cell towers atop Baltimore public schools questioned

“This is NOT worth the unknown potential risks to young developing brains and bodies … Mr. Duke and Dr. Alonso put your law degrees aside and DO what’s best for our children … NO cell towers on school facilities!!!”
– Kim Trueheart

“$580,000! Put them up on my house please. We have two kids in an affluent city neighborhood and welcome the money to our schools. And yes, I have read the research too.”
– Ltong1009

“Cell phone towers give off constant radiation and this level of radiation varies depending upon your distance from the tower and antenna angle. A tower has to have the power to blanket an entire area letting every phone within it’s zone that it is there. There are diagrams out there that show safe zones and not so safe zones. Before a tower or antenna can be worked on it must be shut down so that it does not expose the worker to high levels of RF.”
– RF Expert

Sorry, there’s just no proof. With cellular now in service since 1982, 300 million devices in the US, 5.9 billion subscribers globally, there is just no evidence that there’s an issue.
– Nashorn

“There have been studies of people living near cell sites, nothing turns up in terms of cancer clusters.”
– Nashorn

“There are several of theses on fire stations can you find out where the money goes? Squad 47- 2608 Washington Boulevard (T-mobile), Engine 45- 2700 Glen Avenue (ATT), Engine 56- 6512 Harford Road (Sprint-Nextel).”
– Brian Britcher