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#1,544 - King County Homeless agency proposes $25.5 Billion over 5 years to "end homelessness"
February 03, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBKING COUNTY, Wash — The King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) released a draft plan that calls for $25.5 billion over five years to end homeless in King County. They are asking for feedback on the draft, which the public can provide by going to this link. Initially, $8 billion would be used for capital costs and $3.5 billion would be necessary each year for operational costs. Poll after poll shows that homelessness is a top issue in the state of Washington. Gov. Jay Inslee is...
#1,543 - Fully clothed bathing burglar found in Seattle home's bathroom
February 02, 2023 12:00 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MBSEATTLE - A man suspected of breaking into a woman's home in Seattle has refused to come clean about his intentions, even though police found him fully clothed in a bathtub filled with water. According to the Seattle Police Department, a woman returned to her home Friday just after 7 p.m. to find a window smashed and an unknown man inside the house. She remained outside the home and called police. Upon their arrival, officers instructed anyone inside to come out. When they got no reply, th...
#1,542 - $100,000 in losses at wedding store in Seattle after robbery
February 02, 2023 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBSEATTLE — A Seattle fashion designer who specializes in custom wedding dresses showed up to her shop Thursday morning to find the lock drilled out and the business ransacked. About two dozen dresses and most of the electronics were stolen from Leiren Designs at 8309 15th Avenue Northwest, and owner Madison Leiren said her losses total about $100,000. “We’re looking at what would be the equivalent of a year’s revenue gone,” Leiren said. On top of that, Leiren has to scramble to help the br...
#1,541 - Tech executive Tweets her walk to DT San Fran bar that left her 'scared - "It looked like Dystopia"
February 01, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBA San Francisco tech executive has branded the downtown area 'dystopian' after she walked past 'hundreds' of homeless people. Michelle Tandler, 37, shared a picture from her Saturday night trip to a bar in the wilting Democrat-run city. She posted the image of a distressing scene that featured a group of homeless men surrounding by trash and graffiti. It comes as cities such as San Francisco, Portland and Philadelphia are being outed for their homeless and drug crisis. 'Last night I wen...
#1,540 - Fox News crushes CNN, MSNBC viewership as Don Lemon’s morning show has worst week since launch
February 01, 2023 12:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBFox News Channel continued to dominate cable news viewership last week as MSNBC and CNN struggled to attract the viewers most coveted by advertisers. Fox News averaged 1.4 million viewers from Jan. 16-22, making it the only basic cable channel to crack the one-million viewer benchmark. ESPN finished second with an average audience of 825,000, followed by MSNBC, HGTV and Hallmark Channel. CNN managed an average of only 417,000 viewers during the same period. Fox News also obliterated CNN ...
#1,539 - Thefts of Kia and Hyundai cars have increased by 363% and 503% in Seattle
February 01, 2023 11:00 - 13 minutes - 9.18 MB(The Center Square) – Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison has filed a lawsuit against Kia and Hyundai for their alleged role in an exponential increase of car theft in Seattle and other regions. Davison’s office claims that the two car companies’ failure to install anti-theft technology has contributed to an increase of their car models being stolen in Seattle and across the region. In the last two years, thefts of Kia and Hyundai cars increased by 363% and 503% in Seattle, according to the ...
#1,538 - Seattle couple explains why/how they're building a home in the median of an interstate ramp
January 31, 2023 12:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBDrivers who enter I-5 at Seattle's Mercer Street on-ramp pass by a growing encampment for the unhoused that is obscured behind trees and repurposed "welcome to South Lake Union" banners. Inside the camp, Kandice and Mark, who asked to be identified only by their first names, are busy building their home. 99 percent of this house is stuff that came out of dumpsters," Mark told KOMO. "We don’t have a house or a home right now and this is how we know to survive. Mark said it's taken him about...
#1,537 - Portland liquor store kicked out of complex for too many break-ins!
January 31, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15.6 MBManagers of Cascade Station are kicking out the upscale shopping plaza’s liquor store, according to Saleem Noorani, president of the Associated Liquor Stores of Oregon. The airport mall told Malik Pirani, manager of PDX Liquor and Wine, that it would not be renewing his lease due to a “high number of break-ins,” Noorani told the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission last week. “It breaks my heart,” he said, before reading a prepared statement from Pirani, who told commissioners that daily ...
#1,536 - Oregon plan to ban sale of kangaroo products is ‘emotive misinformation’, industry says
January 30, 2023 12:00 - 18 minutes - 13.1 MBA bill that would ban the sale of kangaroo parts has been introduced in the US state of Oregon, taking aim at sports apparel manufacturers that use the animal’s leather to make their products. But Australian industry and conservation experts say the bill is “driven by emotive misinformation,” and is “backed by people who are not qualified to comment”. The Australian government has also defended the industry as “sustainable and humane”. Football boots – known as soccer cleats in the US – a...
#1,535 - Seattle business closures show downtown still struggling
January 30, 2023 11:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MB(The Center Square) – A string of companies located in Downtown Seattle are leaving the area as the city continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Nike store located in the downtown district promptly shut down on Jan. 20, Amazon is vacating its downtown Seattle tower in April and the Regal Cinema theater is closing in February as a result of the parent company’s bankruptcy filing. Nike will transfer its downtown location to Bellevue Square in Downtown Bellevue, according to perm...
#1,534 - Shopping carts keep disappearing from stores
January 29, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14.5 MBSanta Fe, New Mexico, paid a local contractor $47,000 to round up about 3,000 shopping carts around the city in 2021 and 2022. Fayetteville, North Carolina, spent $78,468 collecting carts from May 2020 to October 2022. Shopping carts keep wandering away from their stores, draining taxpayers’ coffers, causing blight and frustrating local officials and retailers. Abandoned shopping carts are a scourge to neighborhoods, as wayward carts block intersections, sidewalks and bus stops. They occu...
#1,533 - Seattle Morgue Running Out of Room For Fentanyl Victims
January 28, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.4 MBSeattle’s morgue is running out of room for bodies, which are piling up from fatal fentanyl overdoses, according to reports. Space issues have become so acute at the Seattle-King County morgue in Washington state that local officials are considering keeping bodies on gurneys and partnering with local funeral homes for storage as stopgap measures. “A key indication of just how bad things are … the medical examiner’s office is now struggling with the issue of storing bodies because the fenta...
#1,532 - Tribune quizzes Mayor ted on Homeless Encampment Plans
January 25, 2023 12:00 - 18 minutes - 13.6 MBPortland Mayor Ted Wheeler, along with Portland City Commissioner Dan Ryan, has proposed the largest and most expansive plan yet to address homelessness in the city. The proposal has drawn responses across the board, including praise from some in the business community, and condemnation from some service providers. At the heart of the multi-faceted plan: The proposal to build, and sanction, six homeless camps, each large enough for 250 residents, to be built somewhere in the city. The Trib...
#1,531 - Walgreens Employee Films Her Routine at Work As 2 Store Thefts in One Day Sparks Debate
January 25, 2023 11:00 - 22 minutes - 16.2 MBWalgreens employee goes viral for exposing theft at work in workaday video The 49-second TikTok video shows two different shoplifters walking out the store with carts full of items. After the first shoplifter, a customer calls out the police were waiting outside. “And then there they were and then they didn’t catch him so it was embarrassing. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content library: https:/...
#1,530 - BLM-backed Dem candidate sentenced to 22 months in prison for wire fraud
January 24, 2023 12:00 - 19 minutes - 14.1 MBA former Democratic candidate supported by Black Lives Matter has been sentenced to 22 months in prison. Karen Carter Peterson, a former Louisiana Democratic Party leader and state senator, received the verdict Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges of wire fraud involving more than $140,000 in campaign and party funds referred to external individuals and companies and the money used for personal expenses, including gambling. Peterson abruptly resigned from the state senate last April,...
#1,529 - Xylazine is new drug sweeping the nation and coming soon to the Pacific Northwest
January 24, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBIt is no secret that nearly the entirety of the United States are dealing with a drastic influx of the powerful opiate fentanyl over the last couple of years. It has shown up in nearly every street drug ingested and has even been marketed to children directly through colorful varieties that look like candy. According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2021, 70,601 people died from a fentanyl overdose in the US. That figure rose 25% from 2020 and is nearly double the amount of fentanyl ...
#1,528 - Protestor killed and trooper shot as ‘Cop City’ protesters cleared from a planned Atlanta police training center
January 23, 2023 12:00 - 12 minutes - 9.02 MBA person was killed and a Georgia trooper was injured Wednesday as officials cleared out the site of a controversial proposed law enforcement training center in Atlanta. Tensions have been rising in the city over the proposed Public Safety Training Center: a sprawling stretch of 85 acres of forested land in DeKalb County that will have a shooting range, an amphitheater and a mock city that will be used for training. Opponents have called the center "Cop City," and protesters have camped ou...
#1,527 - San Francisco Gallery owner who hosed down homeless person arrested for battery
January 23, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBA gallery owner who was filmed spraying down a homeless woman with a hose in front of his San Francisco store has been arrested for battery, hours after the city's DA said he would face charges for the widely seen incident. Collier Gwin, the owner of Foster Gwin art gallery, is currently being held on the misdemeanor charge stemming from the January 9 altercation, police said Wednesday following his arrest. Earlier in the day, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office issued a statement...
#1,526 - Niketown Store in DT Seattle permanently closes as crime and safety issues persist
January 22, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutes - 11.5 MBThe downtown Seattle Nike store at 1500 6th Avenue opened in 1996. It will close this Friday. At the time, the store was symbolic of a growing and new downtown retail core. At one time, the store held a contest to decide who the biggest sports star in Seattle was so they could put a billboard on the front of the store. It turned out to be Sue Bird, in her prime, playing for the Seattle Storm. The early days of the store had lines outside the front. The company made the grand opening a big...
#1,525 - Ex-intel official who signed Hunter Biden laptop letter admits significant portion of emails 'had to be real'
January 21, 2023 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBOne of the signatories of the now-discredited open letter attempting to discredit the findings from the Hunter Biden laptop made a stunning admission more than two years after it surfaced in the public eye. Douglas Wise, a former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director and former senior CIA operations officer, was among the over 50 former intel officials who claimed that the content of the laptop first reported by the New York Post in October 2020 "has all the classic earmarks of a Rus...
#1,524 - Is Karen Bass’ success in clearing Venice homeless encampments just a facade
January 20, 2023 12:00 - 17 minutes - 12.5 MBLOS ANGELES (2UrbanGirls) – Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is basking in the success of removing 100 people off of city streets and into temporary shelters in less than 30 days on the job. No one seems concerned with how she is having so much success, in a short amount of time. Bass campaigned on a platform of tackling the homeless crisis pledging to get 17,000 off the street in her first year in office and estimated it would take four (4) years to get a firm grasp on it. She went a step fur...
#1,523 - Diaz oversees violent weekend, his first official one as SPD chief
January 20, 2023 11:00 - 22 minutes - 16.3 MBAfter a weekend of shootings alongside a narcotics bust, multiple assaults, hate crimes, and even a power outage affecting 8,000 residents, many people who call Seattle home are worried about 2023’s violent start. “We had a violent weekend, even by Seattle standards, for what we’ve been seeing over the past two years and the rise in violent crime and shootings and homicides,” Brandi Kruse said on KIRO Newsradio. While 2022 was a more violent year, according to Seattle Police Department’s C...
#1,522 - LAPD's Thin Blue Line flag ban spurs outrage amid recruitment struggles: 'Morale's in the gutter'
January 19, 2023 12:00 - 16 minutes - 11.9 MBThe Los Angeles Police Department is facing fierce criticism after it banned displaying the Thin Blue Line Flag over a complaint it symbolized "extremist" views. Founder of Blue Lives Matter NYC Joseph Imperatrice joined "Fox & Friends First" Monday to discuss why he is furious over the move and how it will impact staffing shortages and morale moving forward. "When people make a complaint like that, they don't like the cops on any given day, so we've got to take that into account," Imper...
#1,521 - Fentanyl fuels record homeless deaths in Seattle area
January 19, 2023 11:00 - 18 minutes - 13.3 MBA record 310 homeless people died in the Seattle area last year, highlighting the region’s struggle to house the thousands of people living on its streets. The 310 deaths in King County surpassed the previous record of 195 homeless deaths set in 2018, the Seattle Times reported and marked a 65% jump over 2021. “That’s just appalling,” the paper quoted Chloe Gale, policy and strategy vice president for REACH, the largest homelessness outreach provider in Seattle, as saying. Seattle Mayor B...
#1,521 - Portland’s City Council Spends Citizens Money To Ensure It’s Stolen
January 18, 2023 12:00 - 13 minutes - 9.63 MBYou’ve heard the old joke about the government: you see one county worker dig a hole and the second one fills it in. That joke came to mind when I saw the latest crazy new program from the rocket scientists at Portland city hall. Robbers know Portland defunded police, DA Mike Schmidt won’t prosecute, and the courts won’t lock ‘em up. That’s the hole the government dug. Now, they plan to fill that hole with YOUR money…but not for every business. Marijuana businesses get robbed…a lot…and ...
#1,520 - School board orders dress code after trans teacher with giant fake breasts sparks protests
January 18, 2023 11:00 - 14 minutes - 10.7 MBA Canadian school board has demanded a new “professional” dress code for teachers following months of backlash over a trans teacher with “clownish” giant prosthetic breasts. Trustees on the Halton District School Board unanimously passed a motion on Jan. 3 ordering the director of education to develop a policy to ensure “appropriate and professional standards of dress and decorum in the classroom,” Fox News reported. The district’s Director of Education Curtis Ennis will have until March 1...
#1,519 - 7-Eleven stores in Texas, California, New York use classical music to shoo homeless people
January 17, 2023 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.7 MBSome 7-Eleven convenience stores around the country, including in Texas and California have started using roaring classical and opera music as a tactic to deter homeless people from camping out in front of their storefronts. One Texas 7-Eleven owner says the goal is to deter homeless individuals from being there and harassing customers. Some customers say they're all for the music, while others are annoyed by it. The store owner, Jagat Patel, says no one from the Austin Police Department...
#1,518 - LA Mayor states ending homelessness and supporting local business are tied together
January 17, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14.8 MBIn a conference conducted by Valley Economic Alliance at California State University, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass draws a connection between increasing homelessness and dwindling local businesses. Talking to a roomful of San Fernando Valley business owners and leaders, Bass sent a signal that Los Angeles was open for businesses and also tied the two issues. While speaking, the Mayor said that one of the major problems the state faces is income disparity and the increasing number of tents ...
#1,517 - Advocates say San Francisco is still sweeping homeless camps against court order
January 16, 2023 12:00 - 12 minutes - 9.32 MBAdvocates for the homeless in San Francisco say the city has continued to remove unhoused people from encampments without providing shelter for them, in defiance of a federal magistrate’s order. U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu issued an injunction Dec. 23 — barring San Francisco police and other officers from sweeping homeless encampments, citing their occupants for sleeping in public and seizing their belongings — while she considers a lawsuit against the city. Federal appeals courts have ...
#1,516 - Parents protest planned opioid treatment center near Seattle suburban Boys and Girls Club
January 16, 2023 11:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBLYNNWOOD, Wash. — A contentious debate in Lynnwood reached a stalemate Monday night over the planned location for an addiction treatment center. Despite pushback from concerned parents, Acadia Health attempted to clear its final hurdle for approval to open its opioid treatment clinic just steps away from the Alderwood Boys and Girls Club, an after-school program for kids and teens. Although Snohomish County makes up only 10% of the state's population, county data shows they now account for...
#1,515 - Seattle Public Schools sues Facebook, TikTok, YouTube for causing youth mental health crisis
January 15, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBThe largest school district in Washington state is suing several major social media companies for creating apps that it says exploit children and contribute to a "youth mental health crisis." Seattle Public Schools filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Instagram and their parent company Meta as well as Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and others for their roles in the allegations. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on Friday, alleges that the rapid growth ...
#1,514 - Safeway combats theft with separate shopping section for high-theft items in Portland
January 14, 2023 11:00 - 18 minutes - 13.1 MBThe shoplifting epidemic in Portland is happening in plain sight. KGW has documented people stealing armloads of products that security experts like Scott Castleman say are resold on the black market. “In my career in loss prevention, I’ve never seen anything to the degree that we have today. The brazenness of the shoplifters. Going in, knowing that they won't get caught, they don't even try and conceal anything anymore,” said Castleman. If you walk into the Safeway store on Southwest 10t...
#1,513 - Portland Police Officer pulls over 10 year old speeding from Drive-Thru in stolen car
January 13, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutes - 7.45 MBPolice caught a 10-year-old behind the wheel of a stolen car after spotting the child speeding out of a North Portland fast food restaurant parking lot early Friday morning. At about 1:15 a.m. Friday, a Portland Police officer on patrol near North Vancouver Avenue and Lombard Street saw the vehicle, a Kia, speed out of the parking lot and continue driving erratically. She started following the vehicle and found out it was reported as stolen. The officer followed the Kia to a stop sign on N...
#1,512 - Seattle church says growing homeless camp is scaring off worshipers
January 13, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes - 18.3 MBLeaders at a church in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood said members of their congregation are fearful of coming to services because of a growing homeless encampment that has set up around their building. Penny Peppes, the president of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption, said the city has not responded to multiple complaints about the encampment. “We want them to get help, we want them to get off the streets. We don’t have the infrastructure as a small church to do that ourselv...
#1,511 - Feds reveal motive behind Washington power grid attacks on Christmas Day
January 12, 2023 12:00 - 15 minutes - 11.3 MBFederal law enforcement authorities have revealed the alleged motives behind attacks on four power substations in Washington state on Christmas Day that left thousands of people without electricity. The four substations that were targeted were the Graham and Elk Plain substations operated by Tacoma Power and the Kapowsin and Hemlock substations operated by Puget Sound Energy. The damage to just the Tacoma Power substations was estimated to be at least $3 million. On Tuesday, the FBI identi...
#1,510 - Seattle Credit Union to close two branches over crime, decline in foot traffic
January 12, 2023 11:00 - 17 minutes - 12.6 MBAnother prominent Seattle business is closing up shop, citing crime concerns and also declining foot traffic following the pandemic. Seattle Credit Union will close two branches in February, on the heels of Starbucks shuttering several stores for similar reasons. People in Georgetown were not surprised to hear their branch will be closing its doors Feb. 3. One restaurant manager nearby believes a lot of the problems with crime and drug use stem from the large homeless camp behind the credit...
#1,509 - Ending Homelessness in San Francisco Will Cost $1.4B, City Says
January 11, 2023 12:00 - 21 minutes - 15.5 MBWhat would it take to house every single homeless person in San Francisco? That question has long vexed politicians, advocates for the unhoused and ordinary citizens. But new analysis paints a gloomy picture of the costs. Ending unsheltered homelessness would require vast increases in housing, shelter and prevention services, according to the report from the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and homelessness consultancy firm Focus Strategies. That would cost the c...
#1,508 - NYC Mayor Eric Adams warns migrant crisis could bankrupt NYC
January 11, 2023 11:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBThe ongoing migrant crisis could leave New York City bankrupt, Mayor Eric Adams warned Wednesday — while repeatedly refusing to blame President Biden’s lax border policies. Adams — who’s asked the federal government for $1 billion to pay for migrant housing and services — said there were “real dollar amounts” tied to the state of emergency he declared in October. “This is an expensive endeavor that we are in and we have to find ways of carrying out this task without bankrupting the city,” ...
#1,507 - 2022 saw more California businesses relocate to Florida
January 10, 2023 12:00 - 18 minutes - 13.6 MB(The Center Square) – Despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s invitation to Floridians to move to California ahead of the November election, California businesses continue to leave, and increasingly to Florida. While their top relocation destination is overwhelmingly Texas, several major companies have relocated to Florida since Newsom’s been in office. The most recent include several major companies that announced their relocation plans this year, after “Tech Flight” began from Silicon Valley to Miam...
#1,506 - Far left Antifa-linked Twitter account takes credit for Portland bank arson
January 10, 2023 11:00 - 13 minutes - 9.8 MBFollowing a fire at a Portland Bank of America branch on Saturday, an anonymous person has taken credit for starting the fire, saying that the fire was started in retaliation for domestic terrorism charges brought against five militants that were a part of a violent occupation of land in south Atlanta. "Last night I broke into a Bank of America in Portland, Oregon and started a large fire. According to news reports, the fire grew quickly and took firefighters more than an hour to extinguis...
#1,505 - Portland woman claims it's a 'piece of cake' to be homeless in city
January 09, 2023 12:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBA Portland woman showcased what she identified as an enablement problem within the city's homeless crisis in a video posted to Twitter on Saturday, telling philanthropist and outreach worker Kevin Dahlgren that being homeless in Portland is a "piece of cake." "It’s a piece of cake, really. That's probably why you've got so many out here because they feed you three meals a day and don’t have to do s--- but stay in your tent or party. If you smoke a lot of dope, you can do that…," she told Da...
#1,504 - San Francisco office vacancy rate soars to super high 27% in 2022
January 09, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.8 MBVacancy rates in San Francisco hit an average of 27% in 2022 according to the CBRE real estate firm this week, jumping up from 19% in 2021 and 4% in 2022, becoming the highest vacancy rate the city has seen since the early 1990s. Throughout the year, San Francisco has struggled to entice companies to bring employees back to downtown offices amid a growing desire to work from home and reduced costs for companies to do so, while at the same time dozens of tech companies have been reduced by t...
#1,503 - Minneapolis Mayor Frey tells why he supports sweeping homeless encampments
January 08, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15.2 MBMinneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says it was the right move to tear down a homeless encampment near the Quarry shopping center in Northeast Minneapolis Friday. Frey says delaying the original plan to vacate the camp two days ago was the right move, because they had evidence some were prepared to take violent action against police and public works employees. Frey tells WCCO's Chad Hartman the city has better resources and shelter options for those without a home. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - htt...
# 1,502 - IL Supreme Court at last minute halts no cash bail provision (THE PURGE) from taking effect
January 07, 2023 12:00 - 14 minutes - 10.6 MBThe Illinois Supreme Court has halted the Pre Trial Fairness Act, a provision of the Safe-T Act, hours before it is set to go in effect at the first of the year. The decision handed means, until further notice, every county in the state must maintain a cash bail system. The court issued the order Saturday evening, keeping the cash bail system until further notice as the state appeals a judge's ruling on the matter. "Throughout the entire state of Illinois, we need to have the same rules, th...
#1,501 - Seattle software engineer inspired by movie "Office Space" arrested for stealing $300,000 from his employer
January 07, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutes - 11.3 MBProsecutors in Seattle filed charges this week against a software engineer who is accused of a theft scheme that swiped approximately $300,000 from his employer. Ermenildo Castro, 28, of Tacoma, allegedly told detectives that he was inspired by the 90’s movie "Office Space" when he devised a plan to divert customer fees from his employer, Zulily.com, into his own bank accounts. According to court documents, Castro wrote software code that manipulated the online retailer’s checkout page to ...
#1,501 - Home Depot co-founder says ‘socialism’ killed motivation to work
January 06, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes - 18.1 MBThe 93-year-old billionaire co-founder of Home Depot blamed “socialism” for Americans lacking the motivation to work and warned that the future of capitalism is in danger. Bernie Marcus — who along with Arthur Blank built Home Depot into a nationwide empire from just two stores founded in Atlanta in the late 1970s — told Financial Times on Thursday, “Nobody works.” “Just give it to me. Send me money. I don’t want to work — I’m too lazy, I’m too fat, I’m too stupid,” Marcus said about what ...
#1,500 - Los Angeles EV stations taken over by homeless encampments
January 06, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.6 MBA conservative commentator has warned electric vehicle drivers in Los Angeles that charging stations for their $60,000 cars are littered with homeless encampments. Alexandra Datig shared a video of her driving in downtown LA on Wednesday, with one of the local Blink EV charging stations surrounded by trash and tents. 'When you live in Los Angeles, it's better to have a charging station at home for that $60,000 EV,' Datig wrote on Twitter. 'The closer you get to downtown, the charging stat...
#1,499 - Former prosecutor in George Gascon's office pens scathing exit letter
January 05, 2023 12:00 - 14 minutes - 10.4 MBA veteran Los Angeles County prosecutor scolded his boss Thursday, saying his progressive reforms and management style have alienated his colleagues and turned the nation's largest district attorney's office into a "managerial dumpster fire." In a lengthy letter to District Attorney George Gascon and his top aides, prosecutor Mark Burnley aired a number of grievances on his last day with the office. Burnley said he has been with the DA's office since 1999 and a prosecutor for 28 years. "U...
#1,498 - Why no one is buying DT San Francisco Luxury Condo's
January 05, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15.2 MBThese days, a luxury high-rise in downtown San Francisco with units that appear to be mostly empty isn’t an uncommon sight. As a cooling real estate market continues to impact the city, downtown condos might be some of the hardest-hit properties around. Patrick Carlisle, Compass’ chief market analyst, said that while economic headwinds are affecting real estate markets everywhere, downtown San Francisco’s condo market has been hit especially hard. “That market has been hit hardest in the ...
#1,497 - Case of Portland home intruder suspect Terri Zinzer highlights the challenge of civil commitment
January 04, 2023 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.7 MBPORTLAND, Ore. — Terri Zinzer is a homeless woman who suffers from some form of mental illness. She's been repeatedly accused of committing crimes over the last few years, landing her in and out of the Oregon justice system like a revolving door. Troubling though Zinzer's case may be due to her alleged activities — and the potential danger they pose to both herself and others — it's not clear that her case is particularly unique. Instead, it's a perfect example of how things can go wrong at...