‘But they hired 2 new people the same day’: Worker says she was fired due to ‘budget cuts’ after company announced 2 new team members

Massive corporations like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, among others, have been terminating the contracts of tens of thousands of ... countries for the job, and prior to being fired, she was in ... Read More

Food Delivery Orders Plummet in Seattle After New Driver Pay Law

The law went into effect in January, it's the App-Based Worker Minimum Payment Ordinance. It requires gig workers to be paid the greater of a minimum-per-minute payment of $.44 cents, a minimum ... Read More

Community Voices: New crisis center a boon for behavioral health care

November 2024 there will be a 24/7/365 Emergency Behavioral Health Walk-in Center with mobile crisis teams opening in Harrisburg. The center is an effort between Cumberland, Perry and Dauphin counties ... Read More

OUR OPINION: State school lunch program offers too little

Why did Iowa turn down $29 million in federal funding – which would have helped low-income families buy meals for children during the summer – and replace it with a $900,000 state grant program that ... Read More

Guest Editorial: Developing a constitutionally thorough and efficient public education in Pennsylvania

On Feb. 7, 2023, Commonwealth Court Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer ruled that Pennsylvania’s public school funding system is unconstitutional. Pennsylvania’s school funding system is not thorough and ... Read More

From the Editor: In journalism, mistakes happen, and they are terrible

Clarification: or sometimes Editor’s note: These generally are reserved for errors of omission. That is, we forgot to include information that would have helped the story, or upon reading the story ... Read More

Saving the social sciences from ideological differences | Utterly Moderate podcast

and this is allowing too much misleading information to make it into the public discourse, where it is often perceived by average citizens as being backed by solid evidence when that just isn’t so. Read More

10 years after armed standoff, Bundy cattle still graze disputed land

"We're all a little bit older," 77-year-old family patriarch Cliven Bundy said, "but we're still doing the same thing: ranching." ... Read More

Biden administration will require more gun dealers to run background checks on buyers

Thousands more firearms dealers across the United States will have to run background checks on buyers when selling at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores. Read More

Steve Kiggins: How much are safe schools worth to us?

Missoula County Public Schools spends about $4 million annually on safety, from school resource officers to camera systems to electronic information security and more, Superintendent Micah Hill told ... Read More