President Obama nixes ineffective border fence

May 082009
 
 08/05/2009  Posted by PMC at 13:36 on 08/05/2009 Comments Off
President Obama nixes ineffective border fence

President Obama’s budget blueprint Thursday shelved extension of the controversial border fence beyond the 670 miles already completed or planned — rejecting the much-heralded security approach orchestrated by former President George W. Bush. The Obama administration’s turnabout left funds for roads, lights and so-called tactical infrastructure — but not a dime to extend the pedestrian fencing and vehicle barriers erected along roughly a third of the nation’s 1,947-mile border with Mexico. The top financial officer at the Department of Homeland Security, Peggy Sherry, and her team told reporters Thursday that the Obama administration would not extend a barrier network that ….Read More

Chertoff gives “the finger” to South Texas

Apr 072008
 
 07/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 12:20 on 07/04/2008 Comments Off

Confronted with environmental concerns about proposed border fencing, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff used his power Tuesday to waive dozens of federal laws to clear the way for building it. Chertoff’s announcement followed a March 3 letter from a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official pointing out that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials had abruptly spiked a compromise the agencies were working on to protect an extensive riverfront wildlife refuge affected by a Hidalgo County fence-levee project. He signed two waivers Tuesday, one of them negating 37 environmental, historic preservation and land management laws to speed 470 miles of ….Read More

So what’s up with Swift Transportation a week later?

Mar 042008
 
 04/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 17:27 on 04/03/2008 Comments Off
So what's up with Swift Transportation a week later?

It’s been what, a week now, since the news everyone was talking about was the multi agency raid on Swift Transportations Memphis terminal and truck driving school, or was it the Tennessee Department of Safety, on site license office. Things tend to get blurred when nobody knows anything but everyone’s an expert. So what’s going on? Is Swift actually planning to cut 3,000 jobs in the next 6 weeks as one commenter suggested? Is the Securities and Exchange Commission after Jerry Moyes ass again for insider trading or stock manipulation as they were in 2005? Or perhaps is the State ….Read More

FBI & DHS raids on Swift Transportation – Day 2

Feb 272008
 
 27/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:28 on 27/02/2008 19 Responses »

The day after a multi agency raid on Swift Transportation offices in Memphis and Millington Tennessee, authorities are keeping quiet on the reason for the raids and Swift management are doing the monkey dance proclaiming their innocence of any wrongdoing. Seven federal agencies and the Tennessee Highway Patrol raided Swift Transportation’s terminal operations in Memphis and its driver-training school in Millington. Also, the Tennessee Department of Safety has temporarily closed a commercial driver’s license center housed in Swift’s shipping center on Brooks Road near Memphis International Airport. Authorities would not confirm whether the probe centers on the commercial licenses issued ….Read More

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