DOL Raises Minimum Salary Thresholds for Overtime Exemptions The minimum salary thresholds are set to increase in phases — on July 1, 2024, January 1, 2025, and July 1, 2027 — with automatic increases every three years thereafter. Please see full publication ... 05/3/2024 - 8:11 am | View Link
US Department of Labor Announces Final Rule Increasing Salary Thresholds For Overtime Exemptions Under the Final Rule, an initial increase in salary thresholds will take effect on 1 July 2024, and a full increase to the thresholds takes effect on 1 January 2025. Further, the Final Rule introduces ... 04/28/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Florida Democrats put up billboards to find candidates for November “Not only might it increase the turnout of your own party, but it also ties down the other party and makes them have to worry about that seat, even if only a little bit,” Jewett said. 04/17/2024 - 6:23 am | View Link
Ohio GOP leaders reject Democrats' plan to get President Joe Biden on November ballot Ohio officials rejected a plan from Democrats to get President Joe Biden on the November ballot after the party scheduled its convention past a state election deadline. Secretary of State Frank ... 04/17/2024 - 1:09 am | View Link
Four ways Democrats can fight GOP officials warning Biden might not make it on the ballot in November Democrats aren’t happy with warnings that the dates for their nominating convention aren’t aligning with the calendars of two red states’ top election officials. The first route the ... 04/12/2024 - 2:13 am | View Link
“Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) did not directly answer multiple questions about whether he’d accept the results of the 2024 presidential election, regardless of who wins,” NBC News reports.
Said Scott: “At the end of the day, the 47th president of the United States will be President Donald Trump.”
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds Joe Biden edging Donald Trump among registered voters, 46% to 45%.
Among likely voters, it’s Biden 49%, Trump 45%.
In a five way race, Trump edges Biden, 42% to 40%, followed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. At 12%, Cornell West at 2% and Jill Stein at 1%.
“Donald Trump is privately trashing South Dakota’s MAGA Gov. Kristi Noem for executing her puppy and writing about it in her forthcoming memoir — a matter that appears to have closed the book on the idea of selecting her as a vice presidential nominee,” Rolling Stone reports.
“During conversations with close political allies and other confidants, sources say, the former president has repeatedly brought up the incident, including as recently as in the past couple days, to criticize Noem and question her political acumen.”
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
On the evening of August 8, hours after a wildfire ravaged West Maui, Maui County’s top emergency management official, Herman Andaya, texted his secretary to ask about the status of other fires across the island.
“Still burning,” she replied.