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Opinions iStock The March 13 commentary by Lee Ellis, president of the Brewers Guild of Alaska (BGA), did a wonderful job highlighting the benefits Senate Bill 9 offers to breweries, wineries and distilleries. The benefits to existing brewers, myself included, are many, and they are significant. But Mr. Ellis neglected to mention the very heavy price that the BGA, on behalf of its members, a...

(WTTW News) Some Illinois employers will soon have to apply for an equal pay registration certificate, and they’ll have to provide workforce demographics and pay data. It’s part of an amendment to the Illinois Equal Pay Act that legislators passed last year in an effort to address the gender pay gap. This all comes as women — and especially women of color — have acutely felt the economic impa...

Fox News Flash top headlines for March 15 00:00 00:0002:22GO LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SpeedNormal Autoplay Hundreds of inmates in New Jersey prisons were released early over the weekend as part of a program to alleviate crowding in correctional facilities in the relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 852 prisoners were granted early release as part of the "Public Health Emergency ...

Persons Fleeing Armed Conflict As early as February 23rd, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, estimated that 5 million people may flee if hostilities erupted in Ukraine. As of March 13th, less than three weeks after the Russian Federation launched an unprecedented military offensive into Ukraine, more than 2.8 million people have crossed into neighb...

A property up for rent in Rochester (WHAM photo) The Rochester City Council voted down legislation that intended to give tenants protection against evictions. In a meeting Tuesday, council members voted 6-3 against the "Good Cause Eviction" bill. Council member Kim Smith's suggestion to table the vote for more discussion was also shut down 6-3. The vote came after nearly two hours of discussi...

Ireland’s privacy watchdog has fined Facebook’s parent company, Meta, 17 million euros, or about $19 million, for violating Europe’s privacy law. The regulator, the Data Protection Commission, has been investigating how Meta Platforms Inc. complied with the requirements of the law, known as General Data Protection Regulation, in how it handled personal data in twelve data breach notifications...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Wyoming released a statement on Tuesday, saying that Governor Gordon signed into law legislation that would "ban abortion entirely in Wyoming," if the U.S. Supreme Court decides to overturn Roe v. Wade. Governor Gordon did announce on Tuesday that he signed multiple bills into law. One of those bills was HB0092 which, according to an Email from the Govern...

It started with the serving of an eviction notice and it ended with a woman shot dead and an officer stabbed. Video has been released of the deadly incident, but KPBS reporter John Carroll says the video both shows what happened and raises questions as to why and we warn you, this story contains disturbing images. It started with the serving of an eviction notice and it ended with a woman sho...

Wisconsin Capitol in Madison MADISON, Wis. - A group of Wisconsin Republicans who took it upon themselves to certify to the U.S. Senate that Donald Trump won the battleground state in the 2020 presidential election didn't break any laws, state elections officials said Tuesday. The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted unanimously during a closed meeting on March 9 to dismiss a complaint allegi...

CHICAGO — The well-known gambling phrase ‘all bets are off’ may have to be amended. Now some bets are on, as in online. Former Chicago Tribune reporter Teddy Greenstein is now the senior editor for PointsBet, an online sportsbook located in ten states, including Illinois. “The state law was such that if you wanted to sign up for an online sportsbook, you had to physically go to one of the loc...