“Officials in Surry County, N.C., have approved a measure mandating the removal of all Coca-Cola machines from government facilities after the company’s stated opposition to an election law passed in Georgia,” The Hill reported on Friday, June 4, 2021. Read story here. You know wha[...]
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Can a hospital require employees to get vaccinated?
A Texas hospital chain with 26,000 employees is demanding they all get vaccinated against Covid-19 by June 7 or lose their jobs, although it offered exemptions for pregnant women, other medical reasons, and religious objectors. Some of those not eligible for exemption are unhappy, and 117 of them ar[...]
May 26, 2021: Big Oil’s day of reckoning
Yesterday wasn’t a good day for the fossils in suits who run fossil-fuel companies. “Three of the world’s largest oil companies faced a major reckoning” on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, “over their part in climate change,” newsmagazine Vox said in a story here. The gory de[...]
Busting the “welfare queen” myth
I remember listening to Rush Limbaugh years ago while driving across country, on the only radio station I could pick up in eastern Montana. Congress was debating Obamacare, and Limbaugh was against it. He devoted his entire show to ranting about how Bill Gates would be eligible for the program. (Why[...]
Ex-NSA hacker says Putin behind pipeline hack
A former National Security Agency hacker believes Putin “is connected to the actions of DarkSide,” a criminal gang based in Russian the FBI says carried out the cyberattack that shut down half the U.S. east coast’s petroleum supply, CNBC reported on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. DarkSid[...]
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GOP cutting off pandemic unemployment benefits
Federal enhanced unemployment benefits are supposed to last through September, but GOP-controlled states are rushing to cut them off now. Why? Because Republicans believe the benefits are creating a worker shortage. Without question, some employers are having trouble hiring enough workers. But it is[...]
May 9th, 2021 - 11:30 pm § in Business
What Amazon says it’s doing about counterfeit goods
If you shop online (and who doesn’t?), you probably know Amazon has a counterfeit goods problem. You see the complaints in customer reviews. You may have bought crummy knockoffs yourself. I’ve heard people say the company doesn’t care, but that doesn’t make sense. As ABC News[...]
Cruise line quits Florida over vaccination gag order
Florida’s GOP governor has prohibited businesses from asking patrons if they’ve been vaccinated. Norwegian Cruise Lines says it won’t do business there. The CDC, a federal agency in the forefront of the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic, won’t allow cruise lines to opera[...]
Summer 2021: Gas shortages are coming
If you hit the road this summer, “Good luck finding gas.” There aren’t enough tanker drivers to deliver it to gas stations. The job is “difficult and strenuous,” requires special training and certification, and turnover is high in the best of times. Then the pandemic st[...]