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The West Virginia Public Service Commission headquarters in downtown Charleston. (Photo by Steven Allen Adams) CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Public Service Commission could approve Frontier Communication’s bankruptcy reorganization plan next month, though Frontier plans to use its winning bid of federal rural broadband dollars to sweeten the deal, raising concerns. Last Friday, the PSC made available the joint stipulation and settlement agreement between Frontier, PSC staff, and PSC Consum...

BBC News By Simon Read image copyrightGetty Images Business and consumers across the UK are still facing worries that Christmas deliveries wont arrive on time. "Some things havent been delivered yet, and its causing stress to people waiting," said Ellie Chalkley, who has an Etsy shop in Glasgow. With just a week till the festive celebration, couriers are dealing with an unprecedented volume of parcels. "All delivery companies are experiencing exceptionally high volumes this year," said the Roy...

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Citing understaffing, overworked providers and unsafe working conditions, workers at UCHealth have announced theyre forming a union within the giant hospital system, the second such organizing push by Colorados health care workforce this year. Four UCHealth workers who are acting as organizers for the effort, who spoke to The Denver Gazette on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said the issues theyre hoping to address predate the pandemic and that their concerns were magnified ...

16 December 2020Politics The past few years in British politics have certainly been eventful. A series of blows distracted and divided the establishment and its opinion-makers, forcing them onto the defensive. After the financial crash and the Scottish referendum, the pace quickened with the 2015 election, Jeremy Corbyn’s victory as leader of a fast-expanding Labour Party, the shock of the Brexit result, three years of parliamentary crisis and two more elections. Now, with the backroom Brexit...

POLITICO Get the New York Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Uber Driver Stories The beginning of the end began on Monday in Queens. A nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center became t...

12K Shares “The Cathedral” at Meow Wolf’s CAT Fabrication Facility in New Mexico. The sculpture will be part of the as-yet-unnamed Meow Wolf Denver location when it opens in late 2021. (Kate Russell Photography, provided by Meow Wolf) Meow Wolf this week shared new images and details about its under-construction Denver location, which the Santa Fe-based company said is on track to open in late 2021. The entertainment company’s first permanent Colorado installation has been rising ...

A bulldozer drives on a coal mound at the NRG Energy Inc.’s W.A. Parish generating station, which reportedly captures and repurposes more than 90 percent of its own carbon dioxide emissions in Thompsons, Texas, on Feb. 16, 2017. Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesA bulldozer drives on a coal mound at the NRG Energy Inc.’s W.A. Parish generating station, which reportedly captures and repurposes more than 90 percent of its own carbon dioxide emissions in Thompsons, Texas, on Feb. 16, ...

Nurses on medical-surgical units are typically responsible for five or six patients, but these days they may oversee care for seven, eight or even nine patients, Conley said. In the ICU, nurses normally care for two patients, but now often have to care for three, she said. “It has been very challenging,” she said. Conley acknowledged that the Mohawk Valley Health System has been trying to recruit more patient care staff, including nurses, but said administrators need to do more to recruit a...

Bookshop Santa Cruz Employees Ask Owner to Recognize Union By Ed Nawotka | Dec 11, 2020 A committee made up of booksellers and non-managerial staff at Bookshop Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, Calif., has sent a letter to store owner Casey Coonerty Protti asking her to voluntarily recognize their joining with the Communication Workers of America Local 9423. "We felt we could garner greater support as a collective rather than as individuals," the organizers said in a statement on...