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By Lee R. Schroeder - Guest Columnist This year, our nation’s pending supply chain issues along with some health concerns associated with visiting some public places add people to the pre-existing list of folks who typically buy gift cards/certificates and allow the receiver to choose his or her own gifts. Traditional gift cards like those picked up from displays and kiosks at the entrances...

WASHINGTON – With a crowd of hundreds of activists gathered outside, the Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on a Mississippi law restricting abortions that challenges the nearly 50-year precedent set by Roe v. Wade. WASHINGTON – Hundreds gathered outside the Supreme Court Wednesday after justices heard arguments on a Mississippi law restricting abortions that challenges the nearly 50-yea...

Leon County government informed its employees Friday afternoon that it will no longer require them to get vaccinated or wear masks following new measures enacted during last month's special legislative session. Candice Wilson, director of the county's Human Resources, informed the county's 700-plus employees of the policy change in a Friday afternoon email. "Dear Leon County employee, with t...

RTD Metro Business law columnist, Karen Michael. The three different mandates from the federal government requiring COVID vaccinations for employees are in flux with legal challenges. Most private companies are now taking a wait-and-see approach about implementing the federal mandates, one of which requires businesses with 100 or more workers to have workers get a COVID vaccination by Jan. 4 ...

Labor Law: Bide Administration's vaccine mandates largely halted for now; companies taking a wait-and-see approach  Richmond.com

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — The U.S. Department of Justice is weighing in on several legal issues in cases challenging Florida’s new voting law. This week, attorneys for the department filed a statement of interest in the case brought by the Florida State Conference of the NAACP. Similar cases have been brought by the ACLU, League of Women Voters and others. Those groups argue the “vote-by-mai...

A front loader turns green waste in rows called windrows on the 18-acre pad at the new composting operation at the Frank R. Bowerman Landfill in Irvine on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. The windrows allow for aerobic process for the decomposition of the organic material which uses microorganisms and oxygen resulting in greatly reduced methane production at the landfill. Each windrow approximate...

The parking lot at 469 Stevenson St. on Oct. 28, in San Francisco, Calif. The site is currently used as a service parking lot for Nordstrom. In October, outrage erupted when San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted down a proposal to build nearly 500 new homes — many affordable — on a downtown site at 469 Stevenson St. now being used for valet parking. Of course, these same supervisors reje...

CQ-Roll Call Washington — In the months after her sister and brother-in-law and their three children died in a January 2019 crash caused by a drunken driver, Rana Abbas Taylor, consumed by grief, traveled to Washington, D.C., to talk to lawmakers about her loss. In the midst of that visit, Stephanie Manning, the chief government affairs officer for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, turned to Abb...

The U.K. government has, and not before time, many would argue, moved to introduce legislation that will ban the use of dumb passwords in so-called smart devices. The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Bill has yet to become law; according to government sources that will happen as soon as parliamentary time allows. This means that we should see the law come into pla...