DJ Lepine, Emma Boisseau, and Ryan Barrett are this week's ProJo Players of Week Who won this week's Providence Journal Player of the Week polls in baseball, softball and boys volleyball? Two winners are Townies, with the third coming from Prout. Here they are: ... 05/11/2024 - 12:47 am | View Link
Cheyenne Mountain’s Barrett Kerrigan shatters 500 prelim time for gold as Hawks place third THORNTON — Cheyenne Mountain couldn’t complete the three-peat on Friday, but the Red-Tailed Hawks asserted their depth at the 4A state swimming championships. 05/10/2024 - 4:18 pm | View Link
Barrett House residents in Albuquerque get free makeover before Mother’s Day It was a helping hand for some of the metro area’s most vulnerable women on Friday as two businesses offered their services for free to help women at a metro-area shelter get a fresh new look before ... 05/10/2024 - 2:19 pm | View Link
Photos: Local salon provides free beauty services to Barrett House Shelter residents Employees with the Blo Blow Dry Bar and Waxing The City volunteered their time on Friday to offer free facial waxes, hair styling and make up to residents at the ... 05/10/2024 - 8:53 am | View Link
Scaffidiology: Building the Brand with Barrett Lo Visionary Development’s Rick Barrett – Ep. 16 It's the newest high-rise on Milwaukee's lakeshore, and a game-changing construction project combining residential, retail, outstanding lake views and ... 05/10/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Barrett M82 The Barrett M82 (standardized by the U.S. military as the M107) is a recoil-operated, semi-automatic anti-materiel rifle developed by the American company Barrett Firearms Manufacturing . 05/10/2024 - 6:32 pm | View Website
Barrett MRAD: Hands-on with the US military's new favorite ... The Barrett MRAD, or Multi-Role Adaptive Design, is a bolt-action precision rifle with a multi-caliber chamber that — as confirmed by the multiple military contracts awarded to the... 05/9/2024 - 8:14 pm | View Website
MK 22™ The MK 22™ defines a new class of long-range rifles by providing even greater capability within the MRAD rifle platform. With unfailing precision and Sub-MOA performance, this bolt action sniper rifle adapts to a variety of user needs by converting between 7.62 x 51mm, 300 NM and 338 NM calibers. 05/9/2024 - 3:20 pm | View Website
MRADELR™ With Barrett’s proven track record and recognition among the industry’s elite, the new MRADELR stands as a symbol of innovation and excellence, offering shooters an unrivaled experience in the world of extreme long-range marksmanship. 05/9/2024 - 8:32 am | View Website
Water leaking from the growhouse ceiling. Algae spreading on the floor. Standing water pooling at workers’ feet.
Those were just some of the conditions alleged by workers at the Denver marijuana grow operation of Green Dragon, a Florida- and Colorado-based cannabis company.
Two years ago, workers had enough. So they organized, battling what they claimed to be the company’s intimidation tactics to form the first agricultural workers union under a 2021 state law designed to improve working conditions on Colorado’s farms.
Now the workers have a contract with multiple built-in raises, paid vacation and a committee to address workplace safety issues.
“It’s important for ag workers to have a union because they can be taken advantage of,” said Jimena Peterson, organizing director for United Food & Commercial Workers Local 7, which helped Green Dragon employees negotiate their deal.
“Donald Trump pledged to double down on tax cuts if he wins a second term as president, drawing a distinction with President Joe Biden who has called for tax hikes on businesses and the richest Americans,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Trump: “Instead of a Biden tax hike, I’ll give you a Trump middle class, upper class, lower class, business class big tax cut.”
Take two brothers, steep them in the great music of the Sixties, wind them up and watch them go. Brian D'Addario and Michael D'Addario have been making great records and touring since they were in their teens. (Now they're in their twenties.) Along the way, they've written some incredible songs.
But this latest album looks to be the one that might finally push them to the top.