DENVER — Medical and recreational marijuana may be legal in Colorado, but employers in the state can lawfully fire workers who test positive for the drug, even if it was used off duty, according to a court ruling Thursday. The Colorado Court of Appeals found there is no employment protection for medical marijuana users in […]
DENVER — Medical and recreational marijuana may be legal in Colorado, but employers in the state can lawfully fire workers who test positive for the drug, even if it was used off duty, according to a court ruling Thursday. The Colorado Court of Appeals found there is no employment protection for medical marijuana users in […]
Internet shoppers are moving closer to paying sales taxes for their online purchases. But the fight is far from over. The Senate voted 63-30 Thursday to advance a bill that would impose state and local sales taxes on purchases made over the Internet. An agreement among senators delayed the Senate’s final vote on passage until […]
Internet shoppers are moving closer to paying sales taxes for their online purchases. But the fight is far from over. The Senate voted 63-30 Thursday to advance a bill that would impose state and local sales taxes on purchases made over the Internet. An agreement among senators delayed the Senate’s final vote on passage until […]
Armed with a pressure-cooker explosive and five pipe bombs, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing made a spur-of-the-moment decision last week to give the Big Apple a taste of their mayhem, New York officials say. The potentially deadly scheme fell apart when the brothers realized the car they had hijacked was low on gas. […]
Armed with a pressure-cooker explosive and five pipe bombs, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing made a spur-of-the-moment decision last week to give the Big Apple a taste of their mayhem, New York officials say. The potentially deadly scheme fell apart when the brothers realized the car they had hijacked was low on gas. […]
A truck traveling from a hydraulic fracturing site set off a radiation alarm at a Pennsylvania landfill Friday, with the alarm indicating that the truck was emitting radiation 10 times higher than what is permitted on the landfill. The truck was found to be emitting 96 microrem of radiation. The landfill is required to reject […]
A truck traveling from a hydraulic fracturing site set off a radiation alarm at a Pennsylvania landfill Friday, with the alarm indicating that the truck was emitting radiation 10 times higher than what is permitted on the landfill. The truck was found to be emitting 96 microrem of radiation. The landfill is required to reject […]
Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are once again causing a stir regarding President Obama’s health care overhaul with the announcement that congressional leaders from both parties are discussing whether or not to exempt lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of the Affordable Care Act. Despite misinformation […]
Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are once again causing a stir regarding President Obama’s health care overhaul with the announcement that congressional leaders from both parties are discussing whether or not to exempt lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of the Affordable Care Act. Despite misinformation […]
On Wednesday, Republican leaders in the House of Representatives withdrew a bill that would have changed President Obama’s signature health care law. A creation of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va), the bill — “Helping Sick Americans Now” — sought to aid Americans with pre-existing medical conditions. In a blog post by Cantor on the […]
On Wednesday, Republican leaders in the House of Representatives withdrew a bill that would have changed President Obama’s signature health care law. A creation of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va), the bill — “Helping Sick Americans Now” — sought to aid Americans with pre-existing medical conditions. In a blog post by Cantor on the […]
Leonidas Nikas is an elementary school principal in Greece. Recently, he has noticed something he wholeheartedly thought was impossible in his country — children bent over in hunger pains; children pleading to each other for food; children scouring trash cans for anything edible. “Not in my wildest dreams would I expect to see the situation […]
Leonidas Nikas is an elementary school principal in Greece. Recently, he has noticed something he wholeheartedly thought was impossible in his country — children bent over in hunger pains; children pleading to each other for food; children scouring trash cans for anything edible. “Not in my wildest dreams would I expect to see the situation […]
