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Firefighters grappling with burnout, stagnant pay and a lack of personal protective equipment are even more frustrated to find they are lower down the vaccine priority list than health care workers despite serving on the front lines of the medical system.
Why Does Fire Fighters’ ‘Fill the Boot’ Charity Fill the Union’s Coffers?
Thousands of “panhandlers” in oversized suspenders camp outside of town squares and churches and major intersections every Labor Day. Instead of fast food cups, they plead with passersby to donate what they can into large rubber galoshes, exhorting them to “Fill the boot!” Perhaps that is why they are so well-received by busy motorists. It also helps that these men are standing in front of fire engines.
The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) has turned this spectacle into a wildly successful charity benefit, generating about $20 million each year for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. But a series of multi-million dollar payments from the charity to the scandal-plagued labor union have led some fire fighters and union officials to question the arrangement.
The updated release reads:
MAESTRO SECURES $15 MILLION SERIES B TO ACCELERATE THE GROWTH OF THE CREATOR ECONOMY
Investors include: NetEase, Sony Music Entertainment, Acronym Venture Capital, Stadia Ventures, Twitch Co-Founder Kevin Lin and former Blizzard Entertainment executives Michael and Amy Morhaime.
Maestro, the interactive live streaming platform for creators and content owners, today announces it has raised a $15 million Series B. New investors include NetEase, Sony Music Entertainment, and Acronym Venture Capital, alongside a host of industry titans including Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin and Dreamhaven cofounders and former Blizzard executives Michael and Amy Morhaime. This takes the total raised to date to $22 million.
Good morning, it’s Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Today is the 117
th birthday of Dr. Seuss, real name Theodor Geisel, who made a career out of making children laugh and adults think. And sometimes the other way around.
He certainly got political satirist Art Buchwald chuckling, and thinking, in 1974 as the Watergate scandal consumed Washington. Ted Geisel sent the liberal columnist a Dr. Seuss book he’d written two years earlier titled “Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!”
In the copy the author sent to Buchwald, he exchanged Marvin Mooney’s name for Richard Nixon’s (which is how some people read it in 1972). Buchwald, naturally, turned it into a column. Although Geisel was a loyal Democrat, today I suspect he’d send the book to Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger. Certainly, to Mitt Romney; perhaps even to Mitch McConnell.