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View More NewsOne would think that delivery drivers would be natural supporters of delivery services. Not if you’re the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Through lobbying efforts and lawsuits, the union has made itself the primary enemy of any business or industry that might ship goods or drop off packages without employing unionized drivers (or any drivers, for that matter). The Teamsters have come out in force to support New York City’s Delivery Protection Act (DPA), which would require companies like Amazon to hire delivery drivers as full-time employees—an effective ban on the company’s current practice of hiring out deliveries to smaller subcontracting…
Yesterday, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit concluded that states cannot limit “no excuse” absentee voting to the elderly. Judge Gregory wrote for the panel in Grant v. Belangia, joined by Judges Harris and Richardson. His opinion begins: The Constitution grants states broad authority to regulate “[t]he Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections,” U.S. Const. art. 1, § 4, including whether to permit absentee voting. But when a state offers a method for casting a ballot, the Constitution forbids restricting access to that voting method based on any prohibited ground, including age.…
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No true culture warrior worth his salt admits to reading The New York Times. Very Online conservatives refuse to read it because they think it hates Jews. Very Online progressives refuse to read it because they think it hates trans people. So intense is their loathing, it seems, that some of these hashtaggers cannot even tolerate the company of those who do read the Times. This includes one @claireyfaerie, who recently told Bluesky followers: “My parents have a [New York Times] subscription. Whenever I go to visit them and see the paper sitting on their coffee table, I remember the…
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Minnesota established the midwest’s first unified digital asset safety net for banks and credit unions. Read the full article here
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