The City Council just took its first step toward outlawing all non-union businesses.

Well, OK — it still has a long way to go. But a bill council members passed Wednesday is so patently aimed at killing off car washes that aren’t unionized, you wonder why they didn’t just ban them outright.

And how much longer before they ban all non-union businesses altogether.

Under the bill, which Mayor de Blasio backs, non-union car washes must post bonds of $150,000.

Unionized shops get a break: They’d have to post bonds of only $30,000, a far more manageable sum.

Bottom line: Any car wash that lacks a collective-bargaining agreement (i.e., a union arrangement) will have to get one quick, jump through hoops to get the pricier bond — or close.

Read the rest @ http://nypost.com/2015/06/13/city-council-to-car-washes-unionize-or-else/

There’s a lesson to be learned here,just as in the search for Eric Frein,the stormtroopers aren’t as smart,or as capable as they think they are.

These guys just vanished,9 days so far,at a million per day,Cuomo put up a $100,000.00 reward-and nothing,zero,zip zilch,nada.

All the technology that .gov inc. has can be defeated-if you’re smart,and stay away from areas where you can be found by FLIR,thermal imaging,CC cameras,dogs,and clueless cops stumbling through the woods.

Most of the .gov inc. stormtroopers don’t train for searches in woods-they train on SWAT raid tactics,because that’s the MO of the stormtroopers,kicking doors at 4 am,shooting your dogs,and tossing flashbangs carelessly into your home. They just swarm into your home,and use overwhelming force.

So-not being home at 4am is always a good plan,as is staying under the stormtroopers radar so they don’t kick in your door and shoot your dogs.

This is the second time that they are having no luck finding people in wooded terrain-know your woods,know where the trails are,and alternate routes you can take to avoid detection.

*The million a day figure is being reported by multiple cable news channels.

Prosecutor says escaped killers used contractors’ tools

DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — The two killers who cut their way out of a maximum-security prison apparently used tools routinely stored there by contractors, taking care to return them to their toolboxes after each night’s work so that no one would notice, a prosecutor said Sunday

District Attorney Andrew Wylie also said that Joyce Mitchell, the prison tailoring shop instructor charged with helping the men escape, had agreed to pick them up in her car and drive off with them but backed out at the last minute because she still loved her husband and felt guilty for participating.

“Basically, when it was go-time and it was the actual day of the event, I do think she got cold feet and realized, ‘What am I doing?'” Wylie said. “Reality struck. She realized that, really, the grass wasn’t greener on the other side.”

Wylie said there was no evidence the men had a “Plan B” once the getaway driver backed out, and no vehicles have been reported stolen in the area.

That has led searchers to believe the men are still near the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, where the manhunt was in its ninth day Sunday, with hundreds of law enforcement officers slogging through mosquito-infested woods, fields and swamps close to the Canadian border for Richard Matt and David Sweat.

At the same time, Gov. Andrew Cuomo cautioned that for all anyone knows, the convicts could be in Mexico by now.

Wylie said it apparently took a long time for the killers to complete their plan, working methodically between midnight and 5 a.m. over many nights.

“They had access, from what we understand, to other tools left in the facility by contractors under policy and were able to open the toolboxes and use those tools and then put them back so nobody would notice,” the prosecutor said.

He also said the men had been scouting out the tunnel system under the prison at night for the best way get out.

The convicts used power tools to cut through the back of their adjacent cells, broke through a brick wall, then cut into a steam pipe and slithered through it, finally emerging outside the prison walls through a manhole, authorities said.

Mitchell, 51, was charged Friday with supplying hacksaw blades, chisels, a punch and a screwdriver. Her lawyer entered a not guilty plea on her behalf, and her son Tobey told NBC she would not have helped the inmates break out.

Wylie told CNN that the two inmates planned to have Mitchell drive them about seven hours away to an unknown destination.

Residents were very much on edge, with some saying they were keeping guns handy. But there was also an outpouring of support for the search effort. A restaurant urged people to tie blue ribbons around trees and mailboxes.

“The locals have been awesome,” said Sgt. Barry Cartier of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department, part of a crew from a neighboring county working 12-hour shifts. “They come around with food all the time. We’ve got too much to eat.”

Sweat, 35, was serving a life sentence without parole for killing a sheriff’s deputy. Matt, 48, was doing 25 years to life for the 1997 kidnap, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of his former boss.

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Associated Press video journalist Joseph B. Frederick in Cadyville, New York, contributed to this report.

            h/t The Grey Enigma