Dee DePass | (TNS) Star Tribune Six weeks ago, the public relations firm Bellmont Partners reopened its renovated Edina, Minnesota, office with a catch: Not every employee would have a permanent desk. Like an increasing number of employers wrestling with work-from-home trends, Bellmont adopted a musical-chairs-like seating system, albeit more high-tech, commonly called “hoteling.” Only…
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By Lauren Schwahn | NerdWallet The burden of medical debt may soon become much lighter for millions of Americans. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule Tuesday that aims to remove medical bills from credit reports and prevent credit reporting agencies from sharing medical debt information with lenders. The rule would also forbid lenders…
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ORANGE COUNTY BOYS OUTSTANDING COMPETITOR 2023-24 This award recognizes an Orange County athlete who was a standout in multiple sports, a team leader and someone who also excelled in areas outside of sports. Marina High School senior Quinn Hartman, the Orange County Register’s boys competitor of the year, in Huntington Beach, CA, on Wednesday, June…
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ORANGE COUNTY GIRLS OUTSTANDING COMPETITOR 2023-24 This award recognizes an Orange County athlete who was a standout in multiple sports, a team leader and someone who also excelled in areas outside of sports. Orange County girls Competitor of the Year Isis Salazar of Ocean View in Huntington Beach on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Salazar, a…
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Aubrey Whelan | (TNS) The Philadelphia Inquirer Peihua Jiang knows how difficult it can be to convince a child to take a sip of a bitter liquid medication. When they were young, his kids sometimes balked at taking medicines because they didn’t like how they tasted. And as a neurobiologist, Jiang knew the medical issues…
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Government-run schools keep failing. It shouldn’t surprise us. Monopolies rarely serve customers well. People call them “public schools,” but “government-run” is more accurate. After all, charter schools are available to the public. Privately run supermarkets are open to the public for more hours than “public” schools are. International tests show American kids don’t learn as…
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When former President Donald Trump agreed to address a conference hosted by an organization that opposes abortion in all circumstances, President Joe Biden’s campaign cited the appearance as evidence of Trump’s extremism on the issue. But in his brief recorded remarks at the Danbury Institute’s Life & Liberty Forum in Indianapolis on Monday, Trump did…
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Para surfing will be riding into Huntington Beach later this fall, but efforts to bring the sport to the Paralympic Games for LA28 are wiping out. The International Surfing Association recently announced that its World Para Surfing Championships would make a return to Surf City from Nov. 3 to 9, an event that last year…
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President Joe Biden’s announcement of executive action aimed at strengthening the Southern border is surely a welcome – albeit belated – development, considering the migrant crisis plaguing cities across the country. However, this order – which shuts down the asylum system if the average number of daily encounters hits 2,500 and only reopens once encounters…
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A 2023 survey of VA Loma Linda Healthcare System employees shows a large majority of respondents are reluctant to report workplace misconduct because they believe top leadership often fails to address their complaints, the Southern California News Group has learned. According to a synopsis of the confidential U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Accountability…
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