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Register-Guard Take a look at BPI  The proposed mandated $15 minimum wage sounds great on the surface. It may be great for businesses and communities that can afford it. "Can afford" it is the key. The proponents of this should do a little homework and look into the Buying Power Index, or BPI.   From a retail standpoint, BPI determines the ability of a community to financially support being a new market for products or services. Based on the BPI, I would imagine that many areas could support more than a $15 minimum wage but many could not even support $15. In my opinion, mandates are ...

Woking council appoint new chief executive despite worries over recruitment process Seven councillors abstained from the vote in protest of the recruitment process Woking's new chief executive Julie Fisher (Image: Woking Borough Council) Get the latest email updates for Surrey with our FREE daily newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee...

Opinion   1. Keeping it clean (1) By holding off Burnley on Saturday, West Ham United made it four clean sheets in a row in all competitions for the first time since September 2019. The Hammers have now not conceded a goal in 380 minutes of football – not including added time – dating back to Lewis Dunk’s strike for Brighton & Hove Albion at London Stadium on 27 December. Sixteen months ago, the Irons kept their goal intact for 488 minutes between conceding to Andre Gray after 17 minutes at Watford and Elliott Moore after 55 at Oxford United, keeping clean sheets against Newport County...

"Our state highways and local roads are becoming more difficult and more dangerous to drive on – anyone driving around the country over the past few years has noticed it.” In terms of crash rates and fatalities, the latest official figures for our state highways dates back to 2018 – with the New Zealand Road Assessment Programme's (KiwiRAP) Highway Safety Ratings report. The report defined dangerous roads in two ways: collective risk and personal risk. Collective risk refers to the amount of fatal and serious crashes per kilometre on a stretch of road – with the highest risk level...

Story No. 5: Village of Roberts assumes historic role in the quest for clean water. Written By: Tom Lindfors | × Members of the partnership at the heart of ground-breaking technology that uses algae to clean wastewater include Roberts Public Works Director John Bond (left) and CLEARAS Project Delivery Director Autumn Fisher, CEO Greg Guard (seated) and Chief Business Development Officer Jordan Lind. Tom Lindfors / RiverTown Multimedia What a year, eh? The RiverTown newsroom looked back on 2020 to compile lists of the most important news and sports stories covered by the St...