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Lonely Men Wonder: Will Binders Supply Catch Up With Demand?
United States of America – The election is over! Will the search for binders for lonely men across the country soon come to an end? We have some answers. “I’ve been on a three week quest. I’ve searched every Office
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Manufacturing Jobs Still On The Up For Local Women
Rockford, IL – Manufacturing jobs for regional men have been on the decline since the mid-1970’s but local women are seeing a boom in manufacturing jobs unlike most regions in the country– a real baby boom. Despite on-going terrible economic conditions in the Rockford region that were caused by the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs due to selfish and poor business leadership over the last few decades, The United States Bureau of Labor has released key stats in each of the last 37 years that shows women are seeing a real gain in manufacturing while men suffer for work.
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TEDx Event Will Inspire Locals To Continue Telling Stories To Each Other
Rockford, IL -TEDx – the popular online community site that inspires professional people (and lazy web surfers needing to get their day going if coffee doesn’t) to think with other peoples ideas – is coming to town! The TEDxRockford’s PR statement says, “the goal of TEDxRockford is to tell stories around the model’s four main themes: 21st Century Brainpower, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Quality Connected Places, and Branding with New Narratives.” We thought locals were trying to do that for decades, but now we know that TED is listening to us!
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Eating Out Rockford: County Line Buffet brings freedom, fatness to local couple
Editor’s note: “Eating Out Rockford” is a bi-weekly feature on interesting places to dine & drink in Rockford. Ron Kites is not a food professional, and his opinions are not reflective of those on the RKFDNews Team, or RKFDNews Inc.
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Faith-Based Donut Shop “Glory Holes” Has Record Breaking Grand Opening
Rockford — 18th Avenue was ablaze this morning, as the crowd shuffled in for the opening of the latest faith-based coffee and donut shop. Glory Holes opened its doors to an enthusiastic audience that was strewn around the block. “We’ve
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Local Factory Uses False Hope to Heat Building
ROCKFORD, IL – In an attempt to move its factory into the modern green era, a Rockford cannery successfully began harvesting the broken dreams and aspirations of its workers as an energy source to heat the building. “I played a little football
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