Deals and Layoffs

10+ hour, 32+ min ago   (428+ words) If, as expected, the Supreme Court strikes down bans on so-called assault weapons when it issues its verdict in Viramontes v. Cook County next year, the gun control lobby isn't just going to give up on its efforts to make AR…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1619+ words) Autorickshaw and taxi drivers in Ahmedabad staged a four-day strike from September 7 to 10 over declining earnings and competition from app-based transport platforms. Twelve driver organisations said around 200,000 drivers were involved. Strikers demanded minimum fares for online bookings, controls on high…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1649+ words) French firefighters began another national strike Tuesday, following a major strike and protest August 13, and after an exceptionally severe wildfire season. The stoppages are scheduled to continue in various forms for more than a month with a national demonstration in…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1380+ words) Vanessa Melendez had been going back and forth with the state over her family’s Medicaid and food assistance applications for months when the Houston mom learned she was pregnant with her third child. She submitted a new application for Medicaid…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (809+ words) Miami-Dade County’s newspaper of record, the Miami Herald, has cut 30 staff positions in a move current and former employees call a “devastating” blow to local journalism and accountability reporting. The layoffs, first flagged by political consultant Fernand Amandi on X,…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1040+ words) By Sarah Jane Tribble A federal judge in July gave digital equity advocates a partial victory against President Donald Trump, stopping his attempt to unilaterally kill a multibillion-dollar grant program Congress created. But U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, in a 35-page…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (511+ words) SADDLE LAKE — Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it will assert its Treaty rights to provide transgender medical interventions to children and youth despite restrictions imposed by the Alberta government. The Nation announced Wednesday that it intends to develop its own…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (668+ words) Forced bargaining at Red Rock and the political machine behind it By Megan Barth, September 10, 2026 10:04 am Nothing screams worker “choice” like a federal agency and the courts overriding a secret-ballot election. Chief Justice John Roberts last week refused Red Rock…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (340+ words) I was struck by a classic example of “Don’t believe everything you read” on the front page of the Mid­dletown newsletter, “Middletown Today,” (September 2026 Volume 6 Edition 12). What caught my eye was a statement regarding the Middletown Center project that…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (652+ words) Two hundred and fifty years ago, America made a promise that it’s still working to keep. When it declared itself a sovereign nation in 1776, it also claimed to “derive its power from the consent of the governed.” The promise of…...