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The legislation would continue classifying these workers as independent contractors, prohibiting strikes and other work actions.

Remembering the fallen means honoring the nation’s unfinished work, VA Secretary Denis McDonough said at Quantico National Cemetery in Virginia May 28.

Westport Country Playhouse’s New Works Initiative begins its 2021 season with a virtual workshop of ““The Immaculate Perfection of F---ing and Bleeding in the Gender Neutral Bathroom of an Upper-Middle Class High School,” written by Daniel Halpern and directed by Margot Bordelon, on Wednesday and Thursday, May 26 and 27.

ElectionVR: Mapping the popular vote for US President in VR ElectionVR is an experiment in using virtual reality to give people a more intuitive and nuanced view of election data. It allows you to walk around a map of the United States and explore the data for the last four presidential elections, showing the number and percentage of votes that each of the major candidates received in each state. You’ll be able to see that in 2016 more 1 million people in the democratic stronghold of Massac...

John Samuelson has been sharing the joy of Mount Hood with others. He started skiing at age 40, instructing at 60, and is still carving turns at 96.

Special to the Daily Week of Dec. 31, 2015 There was a new pizza place in Eagle. Pickup’s Pizza was the brainchild of a group of four friends to bring Chicago-style thin crust pies to the valley. Seven-year-old Kara Schiedegger was the sixth-place finisher in her age group at the Grand Nationals BMX event in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She trained at the Eagle BMX park. 10 years ago Week of Dec. 30, 2010 A number of Gypsum businesses banded together to launch a shop local campaign called Gypsum Bucks. T...

Rate is about 300 ventilators per day. if you find 300 excess ventilators, you found another day. >> -- release the ventilators if the states ask for them? >> look, its human nature. let me borrow your equipment. no, id rather keep my equipment here. government is going to take it. how do i know ill get it back, how do i track it? its an expensive piece of equipment. now its like $50,000. when we started it was about $20,000. its not like asking to borrow a cup of sugar. >> are you confident tha...

Who, by the way, are doing heroic work. i want to thank them very much. john samuelson, the transit workers union. to run those trains, run those buses every day, talk about social distancing. youre a bus driver, right? its hard to social distance. youre a train con doctor. these are for a very high rate of illness. thats a problem. its a problem in the yypd, in the fdny. its a problem all across the board. its a problem, serious problem with health care workers, nurses and hospital staff. so it...

Whos believed in me, whos defended me. who supported my family. i just want -- my familys the most important thing to me right now and i just want to go and be with them. so thank you for being there for me. [ cheers ] >> all right. thats amanda knox. just recently returned from italy where her conviction for murder was overturned by the italian courts. shes back with her family in seattle. just addressing the press right there. i have with me here to make a very difficult segue from the amanda ...

Home by. compared to the statistics were facing now. for instance, in areas of the bronx a 49% childhood poverty rate. 49% childhood poverty rate. at the very same moment folks in state government think that thats okay but they want to give the wealthiest folks a tax break. we reject that, oppose that and tomorrow that will be a centerpiece of our demands. >> youll be down in wall street tomorrow at 4:30 with a bunch of other unions protesting along with occupy wall street. john samuelton. local...