Stories Related to House Democrats Ban Earmarks To Corporations

There is some static in the air at Chicago public radio station WBEZ. The local unit of SAG-AFTRA, which represents more than 60 employees at WBEZ, filed an unfair labor practices complaint Monday against Chicago Public Media in the wake of layoffs and buyouts thinning the ranks at the NPR station. The charges at the National Labor Relations Board allege the nonprofit parent company of WBEZ and the Chicago-Sun-Times “failed and refused to provide information demanded by the union” regarding an employee headcount and financial data. The unfair labor practices complaint is the first filed against Chicago Public Media by the union since it began representing WBEZ employees more than a decade ago.

Evergreen Park residents and a marijuana dispensary operator will have another chance to express their views at a public hearing June 17. A standing room crowd attended the April 15 public hearing on a proposal by a Chicago-based marijuana company to open a store in the former Scott Credit Union at 9122 S.

If you’ve been playing Destiny 2 for a while, you’ll be no stranger to a bit of server downtime with Bungie consistently doing updates on the back-end technical hivemind. However, when new Destiny 2 expansions come around, that’s when things get a little lengthy. The Final Shape is one of the bigger expansions to date introducing a new area within The Traveler, a brand new subclass, and even a fresh set of enemies to take on.

Raspberry Pi has teamed up with Hailo to create an artificial intelligence (AI) Kit for the Raspberry Pi 5. The kit offers a power-efficient and extremely cost-effective solution for people looking to dabble in the world of AI, particularly neural networks and machine learning. Priced at just $70, the Kit uses Raspberry Pi’s M.2 HAT+ connection and a Hailo-8L AI accelerator module.

Tom Steyer is skeptical of human kindness—at least as a means to positive global change. As he describes in his new book, Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We’ll Win the Climate War, the billionaire climate activist argues that to address an issue as “complex” and “rife with self-interest” as the transition away from fossil fuels, the world can’t rely on companies and organizations to act out of sheer altruism.