The rule makes it illegal to include the agreements in employment contracts and requires firms with active noncompete agreements to inform workers they are void.
There’s a template that media outlets love to follow to gin up outrage over someone who has to face the consequences of his or her actions. It could be a whistleblower or someone who took a stand for some questionable or foolish reason, but the headline always follows a pattern: “So-and-so did something. Now so-and-so is paying for it.”
O.J. Simpson is impossible to mourn without reservation. Without anger.
Ontario is still playing catch-up on routine vaccinations that many children missed during the pandemic and public health officials are warning that it could take years to solve the problem. “What we see around the world is when the vaccination rates drop, you have a resurgence of vaccine preventable disease,” Dr. Anna Banerji, a Toronto-based pediatric infectious disease specialist, told CTV News Toronto. “If someone had measles and they were with a group of unvaccinated kids, then for...
The federal government and state officials ought to rebuild America's heartland by driving waves of mass immigration to the region, the editors of the Washington Post suggest.
Eve O. Schaub is the author of “Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic
A man used online social network site Reddit to post a sickening message detailing imagined sexual abuse of school-age boys, a court heard. Michael Spowart, 37, of Chiltern Close, Lambton, Washington, detailed his ‘love’ of others’ sexual activity with children as young as four in his disturbing and obscene 54 word-long post. His message highlighted sexual activity with males aged up to 11 – and how he liked it ‘to start young, the younger the better’, prosecutor Olivia Randell said. He posted...
Trader Joe’s is warning customers who purchased fresh basil from stores around the country after investigators linked the product to a salmonella outbreak.
(The Center Square) – Washington state government spending increased 169% from 1991 to 2023. The state’s total spending was $12.21 billion in 1991 and increased to $73.59 billion in 2023. When adjusted for inflation, that accounts for the 169% increase. That's according to budget documents provided online by the state. The migration of people to Washington over the past 32 years has triggered a dramatic increase in the number of state workers. ...
State lawmakers held a roundtable discussion with local businesses in Chicopee Friday about their post-pandemic recovery.
Edith Pritchett attended the University of Edinburgh and graduated with a
World Weather Attribution group says intensified El Niño effects caused torrential rain, but rules out cloud seeding as causeFossil fuels and concrete combined to worsen the “death trap” conditions during recent record flooding in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, a study has found.Scientists from the World Weather Attribution team said downpours in El Niño years such as this one had become 10-40% heavier in the region as a result of human-cased climate disruption, while a lack of natural...