Buyer’s market

Published 12:01 am Thursday, June 2, 2011

Sure, they’re hiring again. But employers have reined in wages, and workers have little leverage with unemployment at 9 percent nationally, labor economists say.

Time to rename that Johnny Paycheck song “Take This Job Or Shove It.”

It’s all true: The “No Kidding” feature informs us that public tours are available of the Chernobyl site, where history’s worst nuclear accident took place in 1986.

Be sure to stop by the gift shop for an “I Went to Chernobyl and All I Got Was This Lousy Case of Thyroid Cancer” T-shirt.

Stuff politicians got away with back in the day: On this day in 1886, President Grover Cleveland, 49, married Frances Folsom, 21, the daughter of his law partner, in the Blue Room of the White House. Earlier, Cleveland had acknowledged paying child support to a woman who claimed he fathered her son.

How John Edwards must wish he’d been born 100 years earlier.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff