Big Dairy wants the term “milk” reserved for the white liquid cows squirt, so they’re pressuring Congress and the FDA to prohibit plant-based alternatives from using that term on their products (see story here). The gist of the story is, doesn’t the FDA have better things to [...]
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Lauren’s restaurant
“They poisoned the whole town,” a cook who formerly worked there says. It was an accident. Boebert’s business was catering a local rodeo, and “the county health department determined the cause to be food poisoning from pork sliders sold at an unlicensed mobile stand and likel[...]
May 18th, 2022 - 1:17 pm § in Biden, Business, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Russia
$10 gas coming to Washington state? Not so fast.
The Daily Mail, a U.K.-based tabloid with a rightwing slant that I sometimes use as a story source (because they publish suspects’ names and publish photos of the bodies when other media won’t) posted the following headline on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 (here): Gas stations in Washington re[...]
Trump officials blocked CDC’s Covid-19 briefings
When Republicans are in charge, you’re expendable. The GOP’s pandemic policy was to keep businesses open at all costs. Faced with the Covid-19 crisis, Republicans were willing to sacrifice Americans’ lives for business profits. They opposed workplace safety measures, such as closin[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Amazon’s HQ2 in Virginia
The plans, unveiled a year ago, were approved by the county board of Arlington, Virginia, on Saturday, April 23, 2022. Read story here. The 350-ft. tall office tower (by comparison, Seattle’s Space Needle is 550 ft.) will feature an exterior “mountain hiking trail” open to the publ[...]
A new Republican fad: Vandalizing gas pumps with anti-Biden stickers
They may think it’s a joke, but pasting these stickers on gas pumps is vandalism. It makes extra work for the gas station attendants who have to remove them (see story here). It’s not a laughing matter for the station owner when it chases away other customers who don’t agree with t[...]
March 3rd, 2022 - 8:13 pm § in Business
Holy rockfall, REI employees vote for a union!
“The rock-climbing, canyon-crossing, river-rafting workers at outdoor gear giant REI” may love their jobs, but not so much their bosses. “Overcoming stiff corporate opposition and a slick anti-union campaign, staff at the company’s New York flagship store voted Wednesday to union[...]
You gotta live in Russia to boycott Russian vodka
“Less than 1% of vodka consumed in the United States is produced in Russia,” CNN says. “In fact, more than half of all vodka consumed domestically is actually made here.” (Forbes says 1.3%.) Russian Standard and Green Mark are the only brands sold in the U.S. imported from Ru[...]
The joys of living in your car
Oh, you’re not a street person, not by any means. You have a job. You even work overtime. You got a raise — the biggest in years! The only reason you’ve set up housekeeping in your car is because you can’t afford apartment rent anymore. The math is simple: If inflation is 6%,[...]