Walmarts, Courts, And African American Discrimination Complaints

After filing a discrimination complaint, that named her manager and other employees, as offenders, an African American supervisor was asked by an employee, to call her at home to "let her know how she was doing." A call to the employee resulted in a 90-minute conversation,...

Happy Halloween - the Dead are Voting in Florida

"Thursday, October 30, 2008 – updated: 3:41 pm EDT October 30, 2008 VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. -- Thousands of dead Floridians are registered to vote and some in Central Florida had ballots cast in their names long after their deaths. "That is scary," said Jim Branch. Branch's...

Military Ballots Being Rejected in Virginia

"Fairfax County Registrar Rokey Suleman is disqualifying an overwhelming majority of the military federal write-in absentee ballots received in his county on the basis that no address had been given for those...

Kentucky Killings Caught On CCTV

What is the motive of this?! " Wesley N Higdon killed his supervisor, four other colleagues and himself in the rural Kentucky town of Henderson last month. It was reported he had had a row with the supervisor...

Pregnancies jump after Grand Junction festival

"Whether it's something in the water or the grooving sounds of country music, the aftermath of what one health officials calls Grand Junction's "Woodstock" drives up pregnancies in this city each year. Nurse-Family Partnership supervisor Wanda Scott said referrals to her...

Freud work sets new world record

" Freud work sets new world record Sue Tilley posed for Freud over a four-year period in the early 1990s A life-sized Lucian Freud painting of a sleeping, naked woman...

Nude Portrait Expected To Fetch $35M At Auction

Lucian Freud is considered "one of the most important artists working today" which, perhaps, could explain why one of his portraits is expected to fetch a record-breaking $35 million dollars at an upcoming...

Tim Hortons Goes BioHazard

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Two things that are a sign of the times, Tim Hortons Donuts, long touted for it's coffee and donuts and family atmosphere, a National Institution by some, now has to be...

MSG's Reputation Takes Another Big Hit

"There are more allegations of racial discrimination and retaliation at Madison Square Garden. A former security guard claims MSG executives created a "boys club" and then forced her out for complaining. Constant harassment and racial discrimination are how Diane Henson...

Crackdown on Spanish speakers hurts all Latinos

Arizona State's, Adrianna Price, recounts her personal experience in the work place with regards to the relationship of employers, employees and government in the immigration debate. Her opinion gives us first hand insight into this national discussion. "This weekend I...

Parking Meters Go High Tech

Actually, Calgary isn't even calling them meters any more.  They're "parking machines".  The city has applied for a world patent on their new solar-powered parking machines, 200 of which will be...

McDonald's Employee Charged With Oversalting Officer's Burger

"McDonald's Employee Charged With Oversalting Officer's Burger Kendra Bull, a 20-year-old employee of a McDonald's in Union City, Georgia, was arrested Friday and now faces criminal charges for allegedly putting too much salt on a police officer's hamburger. After using the...

Employee Busted by GPS Phone

The real issue here (to my eyes) is the ready accessibility of GPS data, both as a matter of privacy and in light of how relatively unreliable civilian-grade GPS is. In a city like New York, for example, an...

Savage attacked by officials pushing immigrant bailout worldnetdaily

"San Francisco city officials are trying to force taxpayers to pay for immigrants' green cards and citizenship – and to bolster their case for the new tax, they've introduced a resolution condemning national radio talk-show host Michael Savage for what they call his...

Military Blogs: Clarifying the Clarifications

The US Army continues to fend off charges of censorship regarding its handling of military bloggers, apparently defaulting to the same language used in the whole Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell scenario. So certain things...

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