AllSides Balanced Search reveals information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so you can get the full picture.
Aug 02 2023
News
New executive order to create 10K new jobs in PA valuing skills, work experience: Gov. Shapiro
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was in Philadelphia Wednesday morning touting a new executive order that he claims will create up to 10,000 jobs. The governor visited Steamfitters Local Union 420 in Northeast Philadelphia to announce his Commonwealth Workforce Transformation Program. The plan calls to invest up to $400 million over the next five years in workforce training
CBS News (Online)Jun 30 2023
News
Strike At Geneva Airport Extended Until End Of Saturday: Union
Workers at Geneva airport have voted to prolong Friday's four-hour strike to the end of Saturday.
The strike over a new wage policy was originally called to last from 6-10 am (0400 GMT and 0800 GMT) on Friday and had already forced the cancellation of dozens of flights at start of the busy summer holiday travel season.
Barron'sJul 28 2023
News
Christian School Teachers Fired After Going To Drag Show
A longtime teacher at a Houston-area Christian school says she and a co-worker were fired after attending a drag show on her own time earlier this month and posting about the experience on social media. The teacher -- Kristi Maris -- had taught at the school for 19 years. The senior pastor at First Baptist Academy in Baytown, says the teachers' dismissal was related to a violation of the
News Radio 1200 WOAIJul 28 2023
News
New Report Details Paid Leave Oregon
Paid Leave Oregon will provide paid leave time for parents bonding with new children, serious health conditions experienced by workers or their families, or those needing safe leave. While the paid benefits are new as of September 3, 2023, the situations they cover have long existed in the workforce. • About 45,600 Oregon women ages 15 to 50 gave birth to children in the past 12 months. Seven
My Central OregonAug 01 2023
News
10 pedestrians injured when out-of-control driver mounts sidewalk in Midtown
The driver of a stolen car fleeing police injured ten people after he careened across a busy Midtown sidewalk during the Tuesday evening rush hour just outside Grand Central Station. One witness said he saw cops in pursuit of the Hyundai Tucson, which had Illinois license plates. “The red car was coming and the cops were right behind him with their lights and sirens going,” said local worker
New York Daily NewsMay 01 2023
News
Bill would allow 14-year-olds to serve alcohol in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Fourteen-year-olds in Wisconsin could serve alcohol to seated customers in bars and restaurants under a bill circulated for cosponsors Monday by a pair of Republican state lawmakers. Under current law, only workers age 18 and above can serve alcohol to customers in Wisconsin. The bill would broaden that to workers ages 14 to 17. They could only serve to seated customers,
Yahoo NewsJul 14 2023
News
Milanesa and GOAT beer: How Messi’s arrival is inspiring Miami’s Argentine restaurants
Lionel Messi’s new soccer teammates in South Florida aren’t the only ones relishing his presence. Argentine-owned restaurants and bars in Miami, many of which have long been popular spots to live or die (mostly) with the white-and-blue jersey stripes of their country’s team during the quadrennial World Cup, are hoping to capitalize on the skyrocketing interest in watching Messi play for Inter
Miami HeraldJul 24 2023
News
Ed Sheeran partied at Santa's Pub after his Nashville concert
Ed Sheeran toasted his return to Nashville last weekend with a few rounds of ... karaoke? That's right. The pop megastar partied Saturday night at local Christmas-year-round haunt Santa's Pub after his headlining gig at Nissan Stadium. Inside Santa's, Sheeran led a beer-in-hand singalong to Backstreet Boys hit "I Want It That Way" and serenaded a newlywed couple to his syrupy-sweet love ballad
The TennesseanJul 08 2023
News
NYPD Officers Continue Leaving the Force in Droves, Claim They're Being 'Squeezed on all Sides'
The exodus of officers out of the New York Police Department continues, uninterrupted. These brave men and women in blue get grief from everyone. The people above them have demonized them, and bad apples in the public treat them as if they were fascists. Things in New York have never been perfect but law and order really went haywire during the George Floyd riots and the COVID lockdowns.
The Gateway PunditJul 14 2023
News
Southern Illinois Greyhound bus crash
Workers clear debris from westbound Interstate 70 on July 12, 2023, after a Greyhound passenger bus collided with a tractor-trailer near Highland, Ill. (Christian Gooden/AP)
A Greyhound passenger bus crashed into three tractor-trailers parked along a highway exit to a rest area on July 12, 2023 in southern Illinois, killing three people and injuring 14 others, some seriously, state
Chicago Tribune