Schools within those counties cannot reopen for classes or seek waivers for certain elementary schools to reopen until statistics show infection rates are slowing. Most school districts have started or will start their new academic years with online instruction. … [Read more...] about Fresno County To Seek Court Order Against Reopened School
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Northern California Heat Wave: How You Can Get Help With High Electricity Bills
“We typically provide assistance if someone is being shut off or has a 48-hour notice or has already been shut off, but even if they have a past due notice,” said Christina Kidd, Aging & Community Services Program Manager with the San Joaquin County Human Services Agency. … [Read more...] about Northern California Heat Wave: How You Can Get Help With High Electricity Bills
The Latest: S Korea fears infections getting out of control
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s high school athletic board has voted to begin practices for football and other fall sports Aug. 24 and games less than two weeks later. The decision pushes aside the advice of medical experts who said competition shouldn’t resume for at least six weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak. … [Read more...] about The Latest: S Korea fears infections getting out of control
If Newsweek Dies, So Does a Vivid Chapter in American Journalism
“Time was stately and imperial and elegant, and Newsweek was a little quicker and slightly more error-prone and a little more irreverent,” longtime Newsweek writer and senior editor Evan Thomas (who had also worked for Time) told The Daily Beast about those glory days of the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, when the magazine was owned by the Washington Post Co. “These are not huge differences. To the outside world, there wasn’t much difference. But internally we felt it.” … [Read more...] about If Newsweek Dies, So Does a Vivid Chapter in American Journalism
Pay Up: Journalists Twitter-Shame IBT Bosses Over Severance Pay
“But how do you publicly shame a company that is shameless?” one of the fired journalists told me about IBT Media, the shadowy owners of Newsweek magazine (which they purchased in 2013 from IAC, The Daily Beast’s parent company), the International Business Times and several other digital outlets from which about 50 people—or an estimated 30 percent of the editorial staff—have been terminated since March, including a mass bloodletting on June 30 and July 1, after continual assurances that their jobs were safe. … [Read more...] about Pay Up: Journalists Twitter-Shame IBT Bosses Over Severance Pay
