Ballbug (Free subscription) | yesterday
David O'Brien / Atlanta Journal-Constitution : Hampton turns down Braves, signs with Astros — Free agent left-hander took less money to be closer to children — Now that he's finally healthy, pitcher Mike Hampton is bolting the Braves. — The veteran free agent agreed to a one-year, $2 million contract with Houston …
Ballbug (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... a response from the game's top free-agent pitcher may increase … Mark Feinsand / Matt Watson / David O'Brien / Come back ... no, good riddance ... Please stay, we need you ... no, please just go. — Does that pretty much summarize the polarizing presence that was Mike Hampton? — While most of his Braves teammates, and apparently a third of our readers … David O'Brien...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... ninefold by 2012. "You can't just hire a person on Friday and put them on the job on Monday," said David O'Brien, president of Toronto Hydro Corp. "It takes about four years for us to train a new recruit, so you can put them up on a (hydro) pole to work alone without killing themselves."Toronto Hydro, where the average worker is 49, has asked the province's electricity regulator for...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... students and union members who turned up to support the proposed offshore power project.David O'Brien, chief executive of Toronto Hydro, promised Monday a meeting for those who lived near the bluffs would be arranged. Roughly 1,000 people overflowed Sir Wilfrid Laurier Collegiate's auditorium. Attendance swelled under efforts by environmental groups and unions to bus in people favouring...
