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Solyndra Employee Files Class Action Lawsuit
  • From ABC 7 in San Francisco, which has a video report on the political wrangling, comes this news: An employee recently laid off by Fremont solar panel maker, Solyndra, has filed a lawsuit against the company…The new lawsuit claims Solyndra violated state and federal rules that require companies to give 60 days notice before laying off more than 50 workers… The suit is seeking class action status on behalf of [...]...
    • Flashback: Official White House Video Praises Solyndra as a Recovery Act Success Story
  • This appeared on the White House blog last summer when Solyndra was still considered a success story for the Recovery Act: Solyndra went bankrupt last week and was raided by the FBI this morning....
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  • Seems to me that MSNBC just recently had a field day with accusations that FOX was “going light” on the News of the World phone hacking scandal. And yet, as Noel Sheppard reports, MSNBC is on a starvation diet regarding Solyndra news: Despite the announcementof the Solyndra bankruptcy on August 31, “Hardball,” “PoliticsNation,” “The Last Word,” “The Rachel Maddow Show,” and “The Ed Show” have not done one single report [...]...
    • Solyndra Bankruptcy Docs List California Democratic Party as Creditor
  • Weird that a political party would be a creditor to a green jobs boondoggle: Out of the hundreds of out-of-work employees, vendors, investors and other creditors in the bankruptcy of government-backed solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC, one name stands out: the California Democratic Party. Why California Democrats would be creditor to a company that received more than a half-billion dollars in federal loans to build a solar-panel plant isn’t clear. Even [...]...
    • The Solyndra Timeline
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    • Solyndra Execs Will Plead the 5th
  • From the Washington Post: Solyndra’s two top executives plan to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to answer questions when they testify Friday before a House Energy and Commerce Committee panel investigating the failed solar panel maker, which received more than $500 million in federally backed loans. But in a statement, the company asserted that it “is not aware of any wrongdoing by Solyndra officers, directors or employees in [...]...
    • Green Jobs Program is a Bust
  • Hat tip to Hot Air headlines for this Washington Post story: Obama’s efforts to create green jobs are lagging behind expectations at a time of persistently high unemployment. Many economists say that because alternative-­energy projects are so expensive and slow to ramp up, they are not the most efficient way to stimulate the economy… The Energy Department says that the green-jobs program is still on track to meet its employment [...]...
    • DOE Official to Media in May 2011: I Think the Solyndra Story Will Have a “Happy Outcome” (Audio)
  • This is Jonathan Silver, the Executive Director of the Loan Programs Office at the Department of Energy, which is now under intense scrutiny for the process by which they guaranteed a $535 million loan to the now-bankrupt Solyndra. Silver was grilled by Congress over his role in this debacle just a couple of weeks ago where he disclaimed any personal responsibility, passing the buck to unnamed members of his staff [...]...
    • Speaking of San Francisco…
  • This story has been around for a couple days. I wasn’t going to mention it because San Francisco hosting a gay “street fair” isn’t exactly big news. Neither is gays mocking Christianity in the form of the last supper in leather. It’s dog bites man (Hmm…perhaps a poorly chosen idiom in this case). But now that I learn this “street fair” was sponsored by Miller Brewing and supported by a [...]...

    • The Human Side of the Solyndra Collapse

    John on September 9, 2011 at 7:35 pm

    Politics aside, this is a terrible situation for those 1100 workers who went from thinking they had great jobs to having no jobs and no severance with no warning. KGO-TV in San Francisco did a story about the job fair held especially for Solyndra workers:

    Here’s hoping we can turn America around before we see too many more stories like this.

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