D.C. Judge Tells Furloughed Workers They Must Stay On The Job
A Washington, D.C., judge ruled Tuesday that furloughed federal workers who are not getting paid because of a government shutdown must continue to do their jobs. It's a setback for the workers who brought the lawsuit against the Trump administration. "Calling people back to work, as the federal government is doing, without paying them is unlawful," attorney Gregory O'Duden tells NPR. O'Duden is general counsel for the National Treasury Employees Union that brought the suit in consolidation...
JPR Live Session: Anna Tivel (2018)
Anna Tivel reaches for that thread of understanding with her music, that moment of recognition, of shared experience. There are hundreds of thousands of miles on her touring odometer and each town is a tangled web of heartache and small reasons to believe. She gravitates toward the quiet stories of ordinary life. A homeless veteran sitting on a bench to watch the construction of a luxury hotel. A woman wondering about the life of the daughter she had to give up for adoption. Someone changing shape, someone falling in love, someone all alone.
The Effects And Legality Of Homeless Camp Cleanouts
They show up in the news all the time: events in which police and/or sanitation workers come to a homeless camp and clear the place out, people and all. There's compassion for the people who don't have permanent homes, but what about the people who do, and not far away? It's a tricky situation, one we explore in this discussion. Rogue Retreat helps homeless people find homes; Julie Akins covers homeless issues as a journalist, works to create spaces for homeless people, and recently joined the Ashland City Council.
An Island Crusader Takes On The Big Brands Behind Plastic Waste
Try this: Write a list of every piece of plastic you touch in a day. I did it. I stopped counting at 56 items. Plastic is to our time what wood was for millennia. But unlike wood, most plastic doesn't go away. It ends up as trash in streets, rivers, lakes and oceans. It breaks down into microplastic — particles a tenth of an inch or smaller — and gets into our food and water. The health effects are largely unknown. News stories feature dead whales and turtles with stomachs full of plastic....
Massachusetts Attorney General Implicates Family Behind Purdue Pharma In Opioid Deaths
Sign up for the CommonHealth newsletter to receive a weekly digest of WBUR's best health, medicine and science coverage. The Sackler family behind Purdue Pharma knew that its painkiller OxyContin was causing overdoses, yet continued to cash in as deaths mounted, the Massachusetts attorney general alleges in court documents filed Tuesday. In a new 274-page memorandum , Attorney General Maura Healey details a chain of command that she alleges implicates eight Sackler family members, as well as...
