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Great news! New jobs at GM first go to the pool of laid-off U.S. workers. The UAW and GM periodically update that number and this afternoon said it numbers about 1,350. UAW Vice President Joe Ashton said all those workers would be back to work by September, “if not sooner.” So GM is expected to make new hires for at least some of the 4,000 jobs announced today. New hires would make about $14 an hour, roughly half of what their first-tier UAW counterparts make. In Toledo, new equipment and workers will start coming to the plant this year, plant manager Joe Choate said. The majority of the 250 positions will be for new workers coming in to the plant, although possibly as transfers or laid-off employees coming back to work, he said. Including the 4,000 new jobs, GM has promised to add or retain about 13,000 jobs since its 2009 bankruptcy. The hiring has come along with profitability: GM last week posted its fifth-straight quarterly profit. Looks like they are on a new trend that is finally paying off. The UAW is still hoping GM will agree to add more jobs during contract negotiations this summer, Ashton said. In particular, he said, he’s still hoping GM will agree to reopen the assembly plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., and Janesville, Wis., and keep a compact truck plant in Shreveport, La., from closing. “We’re not looking to make sacrifices,” Ashton said. “We’ve made them." I will reserve any negative comment. Hopefully the greed lesson has been learned from repeated history for the 10,000th time. Regards, OW

WASHINGTON (AP) — April was a historic month for wild weather in the United States, and it wasn't just the killer tornado outbreak that set records, according to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. April included an odd mix of downpours, droughts and wildfires. Six states — Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia — set records for the wettest April since 1895. Kentucky, for example, got nearly a foot of rain, which was more than three times its normal for the month, NOAA reported. U.S. scientists also looked for the fingerprints of global warming and La Nina on last month's deadly tornadoes, but couldn't find evidence to blame those oft-cited weather phenomena. NOAA research meteorologist Martin Hoerling tracked three major factors that go into tornadoes — air instability, wind shear and water vapor — and found no long-term trends that point to either climate change or La Nina. That doesn't mean those factors aren't to blame, but Hoerling couldn't show it, he said. PS So CA still well below normal by about 10 degrees. Barely made it to 55 degrees yesterday. I demand a reduction in taxes. The state is not providing the perfect weather we pay for.

there was a time that I fancied owning my own 2006 Kia Rio5. Has she treated you well? Obviously well enough ta buy another Kia product, eh? 2012 Kia Rio hatchback in that famously famous CREAM COLOR that iluvmysephia1 la-la-loves! YES! Bring it on South Korean dudes!!!! Or is this simply some sort of Kia white color (come on white isn't a color!!) and not the "cream" white that I might just think I'm seeing? Can anyone splane it fer us? Whoo-hoo! Get revved up and get excited about something Edmunds members! SCHWEET-this is the only rig out there that could entice me back to owning a Kia product again I think I want one of my own. phill1 are you going for the 5-speed stick for your '12 Kia Rio HB? I would think the 5-speed stick would be mandatory. Host-I would think we could drop the ?-mark and The Centurions at the end of this thread, too, as Kia has confirmed this business with this Rio hatch and a sedan with a similar FE as this, so it's a done deal. I vote fer droppin' the question mark.

If you enjoy worst case scenarios, imagine the Old River Control Structure failing as the Mississippi reaches record levels. That would cause a major economic hit to the US, including affecting the big oil infrastructure along the river to the LA coast. Gas prices would really go up. Morganza Spillway may be opened next week to divert Mississippi River (NOLA.com)

I have an LS460, and love it. I'm very familiar with the Avalon, and love those as well. Besides the huge price difference, the differences are many. Drive train totally opposite, engine completely different, more amenities available in the Lexus, but many are still available in the Avalon. If money is no object, get the Lexus. If value is the goal, definitely get the Avalon. You get quite a bit more with the Lexus, but I don't know if you get twice as much more...know what I mean? A good compromise, is the Lexus ES350. It's basically an Avalon in Lexus clothes. Priced between the two, has the panache of the Lexus, with the value closer to the Avalon. That's my recommendation.