Josh Hamilton is a major league baseball player with an addiction problem which apparently began when he was 21 in 2002. He had a long history of addiction to booze and drugs in the early 2000s which cost him three years of potential major league service. He has had a couple of relapses since he …
But how about forcing him to sell the team? There’s the rub. Silver has also recommended that NBA owners effectively force Sterling to sell the Clippers. The NBA has a procedure in place for this extraordinary action, but the procedure contains enough ambiguity that debate among owners is likely. Under article 13 of the league’s …
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This time it’s about race, not about the plot of the lower class to take his money. The LA Clippers NBA team has an owner named Donald Sterling, and he’s a sleazy fat old slumlord of a man. That in itself is distasteful but not worth discussing. However, the other day he sounded off to …
I’m sure there are nice people in Oklahoma. I’m also sure the ones who work in the Governor’s office and who control the state legislature there aren’t. Governor Mary Fallin just signed a bill into law which prohibits cities around the state from establishing minimum wage rates and vacation and sick leave policies. She and …
Half the economic activity in the country takes place in a dozen or so cities, yet our friends in the Republican party always claim “Real America” is out there in the middle of the country among the cornfields. The worst of it is, places like Wyoming have the same votes in the Senate as California, …
Update below. The auto workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, TN are voting Wednesday through Friday this week to determine whether they’ll affiliate with the United Auto Workers. If they do, they’ll be the first autoworkers at a foreign carmaker’s plant in the American South to organize. Volkswagen is not fighting the unionization effort at …
Is anyone really surprised that part of the reason the chemical spill occurred in West Virginia was that the state is very lax in regulating or inspecting industry? It’s the same reason that fertilizer plant in Texas blew up back in April of last year. There are too few Federal inspectors for the workload they’ve …
As more facts have come out, it’s apparent my guesstimate of 20 times the size of the Oklahoma City bomb was too small. The fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday, obliterating part of a small Texas town and killing at least 14 people, had last year been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate …
If you want news about the Boston manhunt, it’s all over the place. Mr. Google is your friend. Nope, I want to draw your attention to this rather startling admission in February from the West, Texas fertilizer plant’s managers. They: had informed a state agency in February that it was storing up to 270 tons …
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