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Maybe think of it more as a “bike path,” the owner of Fisher Sand and Gravel told Bloomberg.
I’m old enough to have once thought Eric Clapton was cool. I was never a superfan, but I enjoy some of his stuff. At the very least, he was cool by association because he hung out—and occasionally worked—with The Beatles.
Regardless, he’s a music legend and three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
The National Labor Relations Board has a new general counsel after Vice President Kamala Harris broke a tie in the Senate to confirm Jennifer Abruzzo, 51-50. President Joe Biden fired Donald Trump’s NLRB general counsel, Peter Robb, on Inauguration Day after Robb refused to resign.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions also moved forward with two of Biden’s NLRB nominees this week.
Back when I was, unfortunately, working for the world’s largest coal company, employees were regularly made guinea pugs for the various propaganda pitches that the industry concocted to combat clear evidence that fossil fuels were generating enormous harm at all levels. One of those pitches what that coal-powered electricity was the only way to provide energy to Africa. The core of that pitch was simply this: Coal is cheap.
Kentuckian Alexis Toon explained on her TikTok that she was invited to the town hall Q&A “so I took the opportunity and ran with it.
Regardless of whether you loved Anthony Bourdain—and the striking thing is that so many people who had even a spotty acquaintance with him or his work felt like they did—the end of Roadrunner is devastating to watch. Morgan Neville’s new documentary about the chef and TV star runs through two decades of Bourdain’s life onscreen before concluding with present-day scenes of his friends still struggling to parse his death by suicide in 2018, at the age of 61.
Cases among unvaccinated people are surging. More than 600,000 people in the U.S. have already died of COVID-19.
“Who is going to tell her?” asked one critic after Arizona Republican Wendy Rogers said she liked Robert E. Lee but didn’t like “traitors who hate America.
Hoarding money may make you feel secure. But you’re ignoring the underlying problem.
For more than half a century, the modern industry of sex therapists, educators, and experts has been eager to tell us whether we’re having enough sex, or the right kind of sex. But this industry is, like any other, shaped by the broader culture—it took for granted that the goal was to “get everybody to the point where they have a type of desire and quality of desire that fits within the cultural norms and values,” the sex therapist and researcher Michael Berry says.
I had it legally changed, and they still won’t stop using it.
A new wave of cases followed by the looming expiration of enhanced jobless benefits, a ban on evictions and other rescue programs is sparking concern among lawmakers and economists.
Trish Perry organizes weekly outreach for homeless populations in Newark, Ohio. (William Widmer / Redux)
On a street corner in Newark, Ohio, every Saturday, rain or shine, Trish Perry distributes harm-reduction supplies—syringes, Neosporin, saline, and the overdose-reversal drug naloxone—to people who use drugs. She also provides food, clothing, tents, and blankets to the more than 75 people who stop by each week.
The company has taken on some investors that don’t align with its environmentally virtuous image.
The prospect of canceled football games is a major step toward nudging players to get vaccinated without making it an outright requirement.
The new steps come as new cases and hospitalizations continue to spike while vaccination rates have stalled.
Even though Covid hospitalizations and deaths are surging in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott just barred counties, cities and school districts from requiring masks.
It’s not what he thinks!
It’s not shocking that someone who is young and thin is still young and thin when they’re no longer dressed as troll, a devil, or a lichen-covered rock.
Should I just bow out of the wedding?
Their absence could hurt the broader U.S. economy, so policymakers are weighing ways to help them return to work.
Both the Fed and the Biden administration have said rapid price increases are being stoked by temporary factors.
Americans are hitting the road as strong economic growth pushes up oil prices, and Republicans are trying to pin pump prices on Biden’s energy policies.
As the impacts of the climate emergency continue to be felt around the globe, white men overwhelmingly dominate the airwaves on climate coverage. We speak with co-editors of the new book “All We Can Save,” an anthology of essays by 60 women at the forefront of the climate justice movement. “We are simply not seeing very much climate coverage at all in the mainstream media,” says Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist and co-founder of the Urban Ocean Lab.
Murdoch “got himself vaccinated as quickly as he could; he’s not a fool,” while Fox News sells lies about the vaccine to people who will die, Malcolm Turnbull said.
In the news today: The Biden-Harris administration faced pushback from activists on more than one front. COVID-19 continued to surge, and Republican politicians continued to say and do some of the worst things imaginable about it. Republicans also maintained their commitment to standing in the way of policy that would strengthen the economic recovery.
Here’s some of what you may have missed.
● Republicans say agreement on infrastructure is close.
He posted photos and boasted about the insurrection on Bumble, according to the federal complaint against him.
