Nashville's proposed budget has city 'tightening our belt' for 2025. Here's what to know The proposed budget would hold school funding steady, carve out $18M for textbooks and increase Metro employee minimum wage to $20 per hour. 05/2/2024 - 1:01 am | View Link
OPINION | The Council President’s Possible Conflict of Interest Sara Nelson sold a brewery to a hospitality giant while introducing a bill to undercut delivery drivers. Is this not a conflict of interest? On April 17, The Seattle Times reported that Seattle ... 05/1/2024 - 7:39 am | View Link
Tears shed when businesses asked City Council not to raise local minimum wage Over 40 community members expressed comments regarding a potential minimum wage increase at City Council Tuesday night, April 23. The majority were business owners opposed, some in tears as ... 05/1/2024 - 5:26 am | View Link
Columbus council gives police raises as protesters demand OSU arrest charges be dropped The new Columbus police contract approved by City Council Monday comes with a nearly 16% pay raise over three years ending in December 2026. 04/29/2024 - 11:06 pm | View Link
Virginia Beach to vote on collective bargaining for city employees If the Virginia Beach City Council approves collective bargaining, city staff will negotiate with city workers’ unions to draft a new law, which could take months, according to City Attorney ... 04/29/2024 - 9:59 am | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.