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...The dates have been set for a re-run in the contentious battle for a union at the facility in Bessemer, a southwestern suburb of Birmingham in the state’s most populous county of Jefferson....
...It has taken Jefferson County in Alabama, for instance, decades to ensure equal employment opportunities and remedy past discrimination....
...In December, Amazon was granted a request by Jefferson County officials to change the timing on the lights to allow cars to leave more quickly, a move the company said was unrelated to the union effort and...
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...High black voter turnout in Alabama’s Senate special election last year helped a lesser known Democrat defeat a higher profile conservative Roy Moore, dealing a blow to Mr Trump....
...We lived through Jefferson County and Alabama. It is important to know what is going on but you have to look at Puerto Rico . . . at the micro level.”...
...His other profession adds to his presidential stature, as it did with Jefferson....
...Alabama in London? Singapore? Taipei? Jefferson County, home of what was (before Detroit’s wheels came off) the biggest municipal bankruptcy in the US, is trying to borrow money....
...A related ruling in the US’s second-biggest municipal bankruptcy, in Alabama’s Jefferson County, similarly eased bondholders’ bankruptcy burden by holding that future ratepayers and future taxpayers could...
...When solicitor general Donald Verrilli came before the US Supreme Court to argue the Obama administration’s side in Shelby County v Holder in February, Chief Justice John Roberts peppered him with trivia...
...In 2011, Jefferson County, Alabama, filed a Chapter 9 bankruptcy petition, citing $4.23bn in debt, after it was unable to repay money it borrowed to upgrade its sewage system because of corruption and poor...
...But bondholders should know this by now (Jefferson County, Alabama and San Bernardino, California, have already threatened them with losses.) The bigger issue is Calpers....
...(WSJ) “ThyssenKrupp is nearing an agreement to sell its steel-rolling mill in Alabama to ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal for around $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter...
...Other troubled areas (Stockton and San Bernardino in California and Jefferson County, Alabama) have sought concessions from bondholders recently, but Detroit is bigger and more high-profile, raising concerns...
...(Wall Street Journal) JPMorgan’s Alabama debacle set to cost bank $1.5bn: “The biggest U.S. bank by assets agreed to forgive $842 million of debt owed to it by Jefferson County, Alabama, where it took the...
...But history is not on his side; Jefferson County’s bankruptcy in Alabama is approaching three years without resolution....
...The court is also considering a challenge by an Alabama county to the Voting Rights Act, designed to stop states with a history of racism from discriminating against voters....
...In November 2011, Jefferson County, Alabama, filed the largest US municipal bankruptcy, involving $3.14bn in bonds....
...Jefferson County, Alabama, has filed for bankruptcy in the largest such municipal filing in US history....
...Jefferson County, Alabama, has filed for bankruptcy in the largest such municipal filing in US history. The record that had previously been held by Orange County, California which filed in 1994....
...In spite of bankruptcy filings by municipalities such as the city of Stockton, California, and Jefferson County, Alabama, fears that hundreds of town and cities would fail financially have yet to materialise...
...Jefferson County, Alabama, the symbol of local financial troubles in the US, has capitulated....
...Jefferson County, Alabama, last year filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in terms of debt. But fears of sweeping local failures have yet to materialise....
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