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Usually open seven days a week, Gwendolyn Stence has nixed Mondays at her restaurant in Tacoma because she simply does not have enough cooks.

May 29—Usually open seven days a week, Gwendolyn Stence has nixed Mondays at her restaurant in Tacoma because she simply does not have enough cooks. "I have offered cash signing bonuses, higher than usual starting pay, and we are getting zero hits," the owner of Rock the Dock Pub told The News Tribune in May. A new hire with some experience would start around $17 an hour, $3.31 above the ...

lfujimoto@mauinews.com WAILUKU — A California man arrested in an operation targeting online sexual predators was allowed to return home while his case is pending, after a $300,000 bench warrant was rescinded last month. Ryan Fu, 28, was ordered to surrender his passport to the prosecutor’s office within a week of returning to California. He also was ordered to appear by videoconference for his pretrial conference June 28 in 2nd Circuit Court. As a “geeky kind of guy” described by his at...

‘I’m not running for president’: Elizabeth Warren sees her role in the Senate, and in nudging Joe Biden to the left By Emma Platoff and Jess Bidgood Globe Staff,Updated May 9, 2021, 4:04 p.m. Email to a Friend Senator Elizabeth Warren went for a walk with her husband, Bruce Mann, at Fresh Pond in Cambridge on Friday evening.Erin Clark/Globe Staff Senator Elizabeth Warren wants $50,000 in student loan debt canceled. She wants $700 billion invested in child care. She wants the rich...

In a new book, the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren suggests part of the reason for her failure in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination lay in the party’s reluctance to nominate another woman. “I had to run against the shadows of Martha and Hillary,” Warren writes in Persist, which will be published on Tuesday, the Washington Post reported. Hillary Clinton, a former New York senator and secretary of state, lost the 2016...

WASHINGTON —  A few weeks after his wife, Kamala Harris, was elected vice president, lawyer Doug Emhoff decided to embark on his own career change: He became a law school professor. “It’s odd,” Emhoff told reporters recently, explaining the reaction of his students at Georgetown University. “The ‘second gentleman’ is their teacher.” “But we kind of dispensed with that,” he added. “It was maybe five minutes in the first class.” Emhoff, 56, has a lot of experience dealin...

Drone angling has grown exponentially with the country being a global leader in innovation and exportation. Traditionally an angler’s reach would be as far as they could cast their bait and line but drones are used to extend that reach as bait gets flown and dropped deeper out at sea. Popular brands included DJI, SwellPro, and Gannet with prices starting at around R5 000. Depending on specifications, tackle, and other fishing requirements like rods, receipts could total to about R100 000. Bru...

Anglers take to the skies with drones By Nathan Craig Share Durban - The legal, ethical and environment waters of drone angling are murky and heavily contested but stakeholders from all sides of the multimillion-rand industry agreed that government intervention was required. Drone angling has grown exponentially with the country being a global leader in innovation and exportation. Traditionally an angler’s reach would be as far as they could cast their bait and line but drones are used to ext...

TAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today released the following statement about their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin: “On January 30, 1995, Thomas Bloom Raskin was born to ecstatic parents who saw him enter the world like a blue-eyed cherub, a little angel. Tommy grew up as a strikingly beautiful curly-haired madcap boy beaming with laughter and charm, making mischief, kicking the soccer ball in the goal, acting out scenes from To Kill A Mockingbird with ...

In Memoriam: Phillip I. Blumberg, Former UConn School of Law Dean Blumberg was a transformational leader, orchestrating the law schools move to its present campus and recruiting top faculty members. Phillip I. Blumberg, dean of the UConn School of Law from 1974 to 1984, at his desk in 2004. He taught for several years after he stepped down and continued to write into his 90s. (UConn Photo) Copy Link Phillip I. Blumberg, the former Wall Street lawyer whose vision and leaders...