CORRUPTION SUCKS BLOG

Subject: Hmm, I think you should do a 'corruption sucks' piece on Baptist Hospital's president Russ Harrington getting a $400,000 raise the other day, which brings his annual salary up to $900,000 a f*cking year, but at the same time, they cut off all employee raises for the past year. They just reinstated them, but virtually no one will be eligible for a raise until next year.  How convenient that they freeze all raises & as soon as they reinstate them, he gets a near half a million dollar raise? WTF? But they don't have the money/budget to hire new employees so they're short staffed and that of course interferes with patient care. They should have used the money for his fat raise to buy a new CRRT machine, because we only have like 4-5 and 2 are broken, and all the others are being used by other patients. What if another patient needs one? Send them to another hospital? It's f*cked up. I think you spoke-up well enough on your own re

June 12, 2010 Brothers and Sisters of Little Rock Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 17: Late Friday afternoon, I received a phone call from the City Manager, Bruce Moore, who discussed his intentions to make an offer to the Little Rock FOP in exchange for the deferral of our 2010 cost of living increase that we voted on, as a body, in December 2009.  Today, Bruce Moore received information that an offer he made to the Little Rock Firefighters IAFF union will be published in Sunday’s Arkansas Democrat Gazette.  The FOP Executive Board wanted you to be informed that the offer that may appear in the paper on Sunday is similar to the offer that the Little Rock FOP union is expecting from the City.  We had been expecting this offer by the middle of the week last week, but we have been informed that a formal offer will not be received until Monday, June 14, 2010.  The Little Rock FOP Executive Board remains committed to the current contract discussi