Daily Record Financial News &
Monday, January 22, 2018
Vol. 105, No. 046 • One Section
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JUDGE AND LIBRARIAN
Foote sees support despite job cuts CSX eliminated 4,700 positions in 2017 with another 2,000 expected this year. More job cuts are coming at CSX Corp. this year, but new CEO James Foote says employees are supporting management’s efforts to reform the Jacksonville-based railroad. CSX reduced staff by about 3,000 last year and during last week’s quarterly conference call, Foote said when paid consultants are added in, the total number Foote of job cuts was about 4,700. Foote projected an additional 2,000 jobs will be lost this year through attrition and the elimination of contractor positions. However, in response to an analyst’s question about morale among the rank-and-file employees, Foote said it’s good. “The feedback that I’ve gotten from the unsolicited emails from some employees all over the network is that they wanted to let me know they support me and they’re welcoming me to the
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Circuit Judge Suzanne Bass set up a small library adjacent to her courtroom at the Duval County Courthouse. Bass encourages children who appear in her court to take a book home. In some cases, it’s part of their sentence.
Children facing sentencing by Circuit Judge Suzanne Bass will sometimes leave court with a book and a chance for leniency.
By Max Marbut Associate Editor When children are dismissed from Circuit Judge Suzanne Bass’s courtroom, they leave with adjudication and often, with a book in their hands. About a year ago, Bass began adding an assignment to read a book and deliver an oral or written report for some children she sentenced to community service and probation.
Completing the assignment takes five hours off the 15- to 25-hour community service obligation. She was inspired to begin the practice by a 12-year-old girl appearing in her court. It was at the time when Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist during the Civil War, was being considered to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. “I asked her if she knew who Harriet Bass
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PGA Tour unveils plans for its new headquarters Facility will consolidate golf tour’s 800 employees inside one building. By Mark Basch Contributing Writer It started in Ponte Vedra Beach in 1979 with three people working out of a house in the Sawgrass community.
Today the PGA Tour has about 800 employees working in 17 buildings in and around the TPC Sawgrass golf club. But the golf tour officially announced Friday that it will consolidate all of its employees — and eventually add 300 more jobs — into one 187,000 squarefoot headquarters building on property it owns along County Road 210 near TPC Sawgrass. Special to the Daily Record
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An artist’s rendering of the new PGA Tour headquarters on County Road 210 in St. Johns County.
The Marbut Report: Co-editor of Scalia book visits Edward Whelan spent months selecting speeches by the late Supreme Court justice. Public
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