Stay updated with breaking news from Dan Weaver. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Large vaccination events like one this past weekend at Coors Field can deliver a lot of doses at once, but so far to not very diverse crowds.
Oak Ridge Today Posted at Charges are pending after a crash into an electrical transmission tower that caused widespread power outages Friday afternoon, Jan. 22, 2021, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today) Charges are pending and three people were injured in a single-vehicle crash into a large high-voltage transmission tower that caused widespread power outages Friday afternoon, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said. The crash was reported at about 4:15 p.m. Friday at Union Valley Road and South Illinois Avenue in Oak Ridge. A preliminary report from the THP ...
Citing understaffing, overworked providers and unsafe working conditions, workers at UCHealth have announced they're forming a union within the giant hospital system, the second such organizing push by Colorado's 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 they're hoping to address predate the pandemic and that their concerns were magnified by the crisis. Because UCHealth is a public institution, the union — officially dubbed UCHeal...
Updated 12/16 — 11:44 a.m. A group of UCHealth employees announced an attempt to start a union after the pandemic laid bare hospital practices that they say prioritize money over employees and patients alike. UCHealth is a not-for-profit company, and its employees are considered a type of public employee, which means they can't hold an election to unionize like other private businesses. UCHealth Workers United (UCHWU) is part of the Communications Workers of America Local 7799, a chapter that started in Colorado earlier this year. CWA represents tens of thousands of nurses and health care...
New York Trilogy in three separate volumes, Laurie Colwin’s Happy All the Time, Barry Hannah’s Ray, Robb Forman Dew’s Dale Loves Sophie to Death (which won a National Book Award), Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Grace Paley’s Later the Same Day, Larry Heinemann’s Paco’s Story (another NBA winner), Frederick Barthelme’s Moon Deluxe, Frank Conroy’s Midair, Pete Dexter’s You Bright and Risen Angels, Ivan Doig’s English Creek, and Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety. As is so often the case, editorial passion conquered timid conventional wisdom, and li...