GENERAL INTERESTThe Cutest Animal on Instagram Is Possibly in Your Trash Can
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/style/are-rats-good-pets.html?emc=edit_ne_20190301&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190301&te=1
Doing this could get you free flights on JetBlue for an entire year — but it won’t be easy
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/doing-this-could-get-you-free-flights-on-jetblue-for-an-entire-year-but-it-wont-be-easy-2019-03-01
The No. 1 way scam artists fool people into parting with their money
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-no-1-way-scam-artists-fool-people-into-parting-with-their-money-2019-03-01
News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (10 out of 11 ... missed Spike Lee)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/01/briefing/01weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190301&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408ion%3DwhatElse§ion=whatElse&te=1
HEALTH
87 more lots of blood pressure and heart medicine recalled for probable carcinogen
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_miami_herald-87_more_lots_of_blood_pressure_and_heart_medicine-tca/category/news+
Pollen Falls in Florida Like Snow as Allergy Season Starts
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/pollen-falling-in-florida-like-snow-as-allergy-season-starts?pl=pl-the-latest
E-cigarettes 'are NOT safe for your lungs': Scientists discover vapers are nearly TWICE as likely to wheeze which can lead to acid reflux, heart failure and even cancer
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6760231/E-cigarettes-cause-signs-lung-damage.html
HEALTH CARE
The Canadian prescription for inefficient health care
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=1a263e27f3efea935b33c2bfebb7320b_5c796972_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190301&goTo=B01&artid=1&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button
DEMOCRATS RUNNING AMOK
388 Days in Senate Limbo
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.
GOVERNMENT MALFEASANCE
De Blasio and ‘co-mayor’ wife have wasted $1.8B of taxpayer money
https://nypost.com/2019/02/28/de-blasio-and-co-mayor-wife-have-wasted-1-8b-of-taxpayer-money/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app
A ‘thriving’ mental-health money pit
https://nypost.com/2019/02/28/a-thriving-mental-health-money-pit/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app
BUSINESS
Burger-Flipper Arbitrators
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.
ENVIRONMENT
Ospreys’ Recovery From Pollution and Shooting Is a Global Conservation Success Story
https://www.ecowatch.com/osprey-population-conservation-2630174079.html
The grass really IS greener! NASA discovers 'ambitious tree planting programs' in China and India has made the world more leafy now than it was 20 years ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6759901/NASA-discovers-China-India-world-greener-20-years-ago.html
How America’s ‘tree-to-toilet pipeline’ is destroying Canadian forests
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-americans-tree-to-toilet-pipeline-is-destroying-canadian-forests-2019-03-01
SCIENCE
Inside the quietest room in the world: Microsoft reveals the $1.5m ‘chamber of silence’ it uses to tune everything from headphones to the click of your mouse button - that's so quiet no one has been able to spend more than 45 minutes inside
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6757683/Inside-quietest-room-world.html
ARACHNOLOGY
Creepy video captures the world first moment a tarantula the size of a DINNER PLATE devours an opossum while dragging it across the Amazon's forest floor
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6756391/Super-creepy-snaps-spiders-devouring-frogs-lizards-captured-biologists.html
ARCHAEOLOGY
Ancient Feces Suggest North America's First and Largest Pre-European City Fell to Climate Change
https://www.ecowatch.com/monks-mound-climate-change-2630294376.html
JUDICIARY
Thanks to Trump, the liberal 9th Circuit is no longer liberal
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0319/9th_circuit_no_longer_liberal.php3
THE WALL
GOP bristles over plan to shift military funding to border wall
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/432129-gop-bristles-over-plan-to-shift-military-funding-to-border-wall?userid=288549
TRUMPGATE
Trump CFO Weisselberg emerges as key person of interest for Dems
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/432126-trump-cfo-weisselberg-emerges-as-key-person-of-interest-for-dems
Poll finds 37 percent found Cohen testimony credible
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/432187-americans-havent-decided-whether-to-believe-michael-cohen-poll
POLITICS
AOC Threatens to Put Moderate Dems on a Primary ‘List’ If They Vote With GOP
https://news.yahoo.com/aoc-threatens-put-moderate-dems-133644548.html;_ylt=AwrNBTCbeXlcYXgACAJXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEydmtxNDQ0BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjY2MzJfMQRzZWMDc3I-
Dems ramp up scrutiny of Kushner's security clearance
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/432274-dems-ramp-up-scrutiny-of-kushners-security-clearance
Reparations? Let Democrats Pay for Their Anti-Black Abuses
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/slavery-reparations-democratic-party-politics/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-03-01&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart
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Burger-Flipper Arbitrators
The legislation would effectively abolish at-will employment in chain restaurants.
Service Employees International Union members demonstrate in Memphis, Tenn., April 4, 2018. Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News
The bill is unprecedented in its scope; apart from a legal quirk in Montana’s law, no other U.S. city or state has eliminated the bedrock principle of at-will employment. If a fast-food employee skips a shift or uses foul language in front of customers, he can be fired immediately. Employers don’t have to justify staffing adjustments such as layoffs or reduction in hours.
Mr. Lotito is a labor and employment attorney whose clients include restaurants. Mr. Saltsman is managing director of the Employment Policies Institute, which receives some support from restaurants.
Mr. Lotito is a labor and employment attorney whose clients include restaurants. Mr. Saltsman is managing director of the Employment Policies Institute, which receives some support from restaurants.
Appeared in the March 1, 2019, print edition.
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388 Days in Senate Limbo
That was the wait for a unanimous ‘yes’ vote. It’s time to change the rules.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks in Washington, D.C., Feb. 26. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press
Getting confirmed by the Senate for a part-time board position on the Tennessee Valley Authority—a minor corporate agency based in Knoxville that only holds four public sessions a year—didn’t use to be remarkable. It should have been even less so for Mr. Ryder, an accomplished Memphis lawyer whose nomination was uncontroversial. Yet Mr. Ryder waited 388 days for a vote—some 100 days longer than it takes a new human being to come into the world.
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Appeared in the March 1, 2019, print edition.
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