A Senate hearing was called to look into allegations about a local pharmaceutical company employing multi-level marketing schemes to push its sales. The practice has been justly criticized as unethical – the company doing this being owned by doctors.
Paramount and its weird marketing for IF continues through the final week of its release. It looked like they were going to push this movie hard for a hot minute, but instead, they have been focusing on behind-the-scenes stuff. That works for something like The Fall Guy because it is a movie about making movies, but it is also a film about invisible friends. There really isn't any reason they should be hiding footage from the public. They have very little to go on regarding whether or not they...
(The Center Square) – Proposed legislation targeting protestors is expected to get tweaks from the North Carolina House of Representatives, possibly before the Memorial Day holiday weekend. People wearing masks in public, and those blocking roads or emergency vehicles, are singled out in the bill passed by the Senate 30-15 this week. Critics have roared because the part about masks includes everyone, even those with health concerns. Sen. Buck Newton, R-Wilson,...
The most regressive legislative session in a century just ended. On one hand, thank goodness. The amount of damage that state lawmakers can keep doing is now limited. All they’ve got left to do is deal with the $13 billion state budget in a conference committee plus some other matters. But on the other hand, they […]
JOPLIN, Mo. - Missouri Governor, Mike Parson, signed two pieces of legislation today, House Bill 2287 and Senate Bill 727 that will permanently raise starting pay for teachers and guarantee consistent raises year after year. Another reason Parson says he signed the legislation was the increased funding for head start programs. Joplin School Board members []
U.S. Representatives Derek Kilmer (WA-06) and Tony Gonzales (TX-23) introduced the Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act, bipartisan legislation to safeguard the integrity of federal elections.
The wildly popular Carolina Renaissance Festival is holding open auditions for colorful personalities of all types to bring to life the Festival’s make-believe Village of Fairhaven.
BOSTON — Homeowners whose properties are seized by a town or city for nonpayment of taxes would be able to recoup the “excess equity” after the municipality has satisfied their tax debt, under a redrafted bill advanced by the joint legislative committee that handles tax policy.Currently, a municipality can keep the entire sale profit after […]
Joel Edgerton Failed His ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Audition Because He Didn’t ‘Understand the Tone,’ Says ‘The World Is a Much Better Place That I’m Not Star Lord’ https://t.co/HhBzUnh7S4— Variety (@Variety) May 10, 2024 Joel Edgerton revealed that he failed his audition for Star Lord in “Guardians of the Galaxy” because he just couldn’t nail down the tone writer-director James Gunn was looking for. “Star-Lord’s a good one, actually, because I, unlike Chris [Pratt], didn’t quite sort of...
As the 2024 session of the South Carolina General Assembly ended Thursday, lawmakers of both parties were more focused on the bills that failed than those that passed. Senate Minority Leader Brad Hutto, D-Orangeburg, called it “a session of misses.” “We missed on medical marijuana, we missed on healthcare restructuring, we missed on energy, [and] […]
A proposal for comprehensive digital privacy policy, one of the most contentious matters of the online era, is being floated in Congress by lawmakers in key positions to get it enacted. If passed, the bipartisan measure will mean big changes not just for consumers and tech businesses but also for federal and state privacy regulators. […]
Homeowners whose properties are seized by a town or city for nonpayment of taxes would be able to recoup the "excess equity" after the municipality has satisfied their tax debt, under a redrafted bill advanced by the joint legislative committee that handles tax policy.