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Nov 01 2023
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4,500+ Portland Public teachers begin historic district-wide strike
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Wednesday marked a historic day as Portland Public Schools teachers began striking for the first time. That means no school for more than 45,000 students in the district. The strike follows consecutive days and weeks of bargaining where the Portland Association of Teachers and the school district could not come to an agreement. The union finally announced Tuesday night
KOIN 6
Sep 29 2023
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UAW strike expansion looming as negotiations continue
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - The United Auto Workers (UAW) union could be expanding its strike against Detroit’s Big Three automakers. The union first went on strike two weeks ago at three assembly plants in Missouri, Ohio and Michigan. Last Friday, the strike expanded to 38 parts and distribution centers for General Motors (GM) and Stellantis across the country. The UAW did not expand its strike
WILX 10
Jul 06 2023
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June 2023 was hottest ever
This June was the hottest on record, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Global temperatures during the last month were 1 degree Fahrenheit above the 1991-2020 average for the month, breaking the previous record of 0.7 degrees above average, set in 2019. The last nine Junes are all among the hottest ever recorded. Regionally, much of northwestern
The Hill
Oct 09 2023
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This is Joe Biden's war
Back in 1983, Charlie Wilson’s war took place – a clandestine CIA operation funded through backchannel resources, care of the House Appropriations Committee. It didn’t just provide money, but weaponry and training to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to use against the Soviet Union occupation forces. Over the next few years, the attacks on the Russians got smarter, more tactical, with better
HotAir
Nov 02 2023
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PCC Community Markets to close downtown Seattle location in January
PCC Community Markets announced Wednesday it will close its downtown Seattle location next year. The community-owned grocery cooperative said the downtown Seattle store at the intersection of Fourth and Union will permanently close on January 31, 2024. PCC said the downtown location has significantly underperformed, citing a lower number of office workers and grocery shoppers in the area
KOMO News
Oct 13 2023
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Microsoft closes acquisition of Activision Blizzard after lengthy regulatory review
Microsoft has closed its acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard , according to a regulatory filing by Activision on Friday. It's Microsoft's largest deal in its 48-year history and comes after the company quelled concerns about competition from European regulators and gained a favorable ruling from a U.S. district judge. The deal gives Microsoft a hefty portfolio of video game
CNBC
Oct 30 2023
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UAW, GM have a tentative deal, all but ending the autoworkers’ strike
The United Auto Workers said late Monday it has reached a tentative agreement with General Motors Co. GM, , the third and last of the Big Three carmakers to have such a deal with its workers. GM workers on strike will return to their jobs as the agreement goes through a ratification process. “Like the agreements with Ford F, and Stellantis STLA, , the GM agreement has turned record profits
MarketWatch
Dec 15 2023
Perspectives Blog
A Former New York Times Editor Just Called Out its Bias and Effectively Endorsed the AllSides Approach
“Maybe if the [New York] Times would put more trust again in the intelligence and decency of Americans, more Americans would again trust the Times,” wrote James Bennet, a former editorial page editor for the Times, this week in The Economist (Lean Left bias).
To refresh everyone’s memory, Bennet was forced out of the Times in 2020 over his publishing of an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-
John Gable, AllSides Co-founder
Oct 31 2023
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UAW gets wins on pay, concessions on retirement in GM tentative agreement
FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - General Motors union members in Burton and Swartz Creek are returning to work Tuesday for the first time since September 22. It comes on the heels of the United Auto Workers reaching a tentative agreement with G.M., the last holdout in the Stand-Up Strike. Just like in any negotiation, the U.A.W. were never going to get everything they were asking for, but U.A.W.
ABC 12
Jul 10 2023
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Erdogan Finally Caves to Sweden’s NATO Bid
Sweden is on its way to becoming the next member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, now that Turkey agreed to support Sweden’s NATO bid. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had been holding up Sweden’s bid over demands that Sweden help Turkey target dissidents. Erdogan dropped his opposition to Sweden’s accession to NATO after meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and
Daily Beast