A 50-year-old man shot and killed himself in front of a group of people, including children, who were attending a gun safety class Sunday in Bellevue, Washington, according to The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Brian J. Parry reportedly used a pistol provided to participants to end his life in front…
Covered at Reason 24/7: Portland Mandates Paid Sick Leave; Philadelphia May Follow
City officials know best! Portland,
Ore., employers will be required to provide employees with five
paid sick days per year.
The Associated Press
reports:
The City Council on Wednesday voted unanimously to make Portland
the fourth U.S. city to mandate that businesses offer sick leave,
requiring employers to give workers up to five days of sick leave
each year.
The number of cities could soon expand to five. Philadelphia
City Council members are expected to vote on a similar measure on
Thursday.
The other cities that require sick time are Seattle, San
Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
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Google Elbows Into the Cloud in Seattle Expansion
Google says it is doubling its office space near Seattle, just miles from the campuses of Amazon and Microsoft, and stepping up the hiring of engineers and others who work on cloud technology. … Read More
Baylen Linnekin on Government Bans on Feeding the Homeless
In many cities today, it is illegal to give food
to the homeless. Not only are these bans unjust and
unconstitutional, writes Baylen Linnekin, they are now coming under
legal attack. Already one federal judge has placed an injunction
preventing Philadelphia from enforcing its ban on feeding the
homeless while officials in Seattle recently relented in their
misguided campaign against the Bread of Life Mission, which has
been feeding people in the city’s Pioneer Square for more than 70
years. It’s time for these bans to stop. View this article.
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Iconic Seattle artist exposed as Holocaust denier
For decades, iconoclastic Seattle artist Charles Krafft has made references to Nazis in his highly acclaimed, sometimes shocking pieces of art that most critics and art lovers brand as simple, ironic satire pushing the boundaries.He crafted a ceramic Hitler-bust teapot now in a San Francisco art museum, and put swastikas on other pieces of art, even on a ceramic wedding cake. He made a ceramic Uzi assault rifle, hand grenades and an “assassin’s kit” – a gun and dagger.Now, the 65-year-old hippie-turned-artist is at the center of a growing controversy following a published report detailing evidence — including his own words — that suggests he is a white nationalist who believes the Holocaust is a myth.Continue Reading… … Read More
Microsoft’s plans for Kinect include future laptop, tablet integration
Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie recently spoke at the company’s TechForum in Seattle, revealing where Redmond hopes to take Kinect in the coming months and years. The long-term goal is to make the device as cheap and as small as possible so it can fit into a… … Read More
