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#954 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Makes Best Coffee In The U.S. According To Ranking
February 03, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes - 19 MBWhile we knew Milwaukee had some good coffee options, best coffee city in the U.S.? That is a surprise. But according to the ranking website listwithclever.com, Brew City is the top coffee city in the country, coming in before Portland at 2, San Francisco at 3 and Buffalo at 4. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3fs6dBU Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content library: https:...
#953 - 2 Out of 81 Retired Portland Police Express Any Interest In Helping Fill Portland Police Vacancies
February 02, 2022 12:00 - 53 minutes - 37.3 MBOnly two recent retired officers among 81 contacted by Police Chief Chuck Lovell have expressed interest in helping fill Portland police vacancies under the city-approved retire-rehire program. The chief urged them to consider returning in a letter last month, acknowledging that those who had retired since August 2020 left “at a time of great despair for the Bureau and the City of Portland.” LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3fs6dBU Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https:...
#952 - Spotify Sides With Joe Rogan, Removes Neil Young’s Music: ‘A Costly Move’
February 02, 2022 11:00 - 22 minutes - 16.3 MBSpotify has sided with its podcast superstar over Neil Young. The legendary folk singer gave the streaming behemoth an ultimatum earlier this week, saying he refused to allow his music on the same platform as Joe Rogan. The “Heart of Gold” singer accused Rogan and his podcast of spreading false information about COVID-19 vaccines. Spotify reportedly paid more than $100 million to be the exclusive home of Rogan’s show. Young, meanwhile, stands to lose 60% of his streaming income from his de...
#951 - The Fed Unveils a Tougher Plan to Fight Stubbornly High Inflation
February 01, 2022 13:00 - 23 minutes - 16.8 MBFaced with mounting pressure from rapidly rising consumer prices, the Federal Reserve is preparing to raise interest rates sooner — and perhaps more aggressively — than had been expected just a few months ago. The central bank is trying to prevent stubbornly high inflation from becoming a permanent feature of the economy. Prices in December were up 7% from a year earlier — the sharpest jump in nearly four decades. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3fs6dBU Support the...
#950 - Buyers Who Got Squeezed Out Of The 2021 Real Estate Market Are Looking To 2022 For Calmer Seas
February 01, 2022 12:00 - 27 minutes - 19.5 MB2021 was a record year with average home prices increasing nearly 20%. Homes were flying off the market with multiple offers, no inspections and buyers paying over asking. But that frenzy has made many weary and many more suffering with buyer’s remorse. According to a Bankrate survey, 64% of Millenials, which drove much of the housing market in 2021, say they regret in some form or another their home purchase. Many said they thought they paid too much or didn’t get the best mortgage rate th...
#949 - Seattle Police To Eliminate Most Traffic Stops In The Name Of 'Equity'
February 01, 2022 11:00 - 19 minutes - 14.1 MBThe Seattle Police Department announced sweeping new policies on Friday as to how officers initiate most traffic stops. Interim Chief Adrian Diaz announced the controversial new policies through the SPD Blotter, explaining that Seattle police officers will no longer be able to treat many violation as a primary reason to initiate a traffic stop. The changes were made for the sake of "equity." Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for unce...
#948 - President Biden's Competition Council Discusses Plans to Ease Inflation
January 31, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.9 MBPresident Joe Biden and members of his White House Competition Council met for a second time Monday as the administration seeks to rein in a politically damaging surge of inflation. Biden said he and the council -- which includes cabinet members such as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and Attorney General Merrick Garland -- were meeting to lay out their top priorities for reducing inflation over the next six months. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.Reas...
#947 - Cruise Ship With 700 Onboard Diverted to Bahamas to Avoid U.S. Arrest Warrant
January 31, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21.5 MBA musician onboard a luxury cruise liner that diverted to the Bahamas to avoid a US arrest warrant over unpaid fuel bills says its 700 crew and passengers were shocked to learn the vessel was fleeing “like a pirate ship”. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content library: https://ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: h...
#946 - Seattle's Office Rents Have Second Biggest Drop In The Nation Behind New York
January 30, 2022 12:00 - 15 minutes - 11.2 MBThe ongoing delay of return-to-office policies is putting a damper on the nation’s office markets, and Seattle is no exception. A CommercialEdge report shows the Seattle area’s average office space listing rate in December was down 2.5% from the year prior, to $35.67 per square foot. Only Manhattan’s office market price drop, which is down 7.2% year-over-year, is steeper. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our ...
#945 - Landlords In Los Angeles Can't Evict Low-Income Tenants Hurt By Covid Until 2023!
January 30, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBLos Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to extend countywide eviction protections through the end of this year. The board also continued a freeze on rent hikes for many tenants in unincorporated parts of the county. Under the new rules, landlords will not be able to evict low-income tenants hurt by COVID-19 over non-payment of rent until at least 2023. However, the approved plan will begin to gradually phase out other renter protections later this year. Support the show 🛍️ M...
#944 - Here’s What’s Going On With Stocks & Bonds As The Fed Aims To End The Days of Easy Money!
January 29, 2022 11:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBAs the stock market has convulsed lower and yields for bonds have surged in recent weeks, culminating in a so-called correction for the Nasdaq Composite Index, average Americans are wondering what’s amiss with Wall Street. Increasingly, Google searches have been focused on the state of the market (and the economy), and for a good reason. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content library: https://Rea...
#943 - While Median Home Prices Rose 15.8% In The U.S. Last Year Farmland Values Doubled That
January 28, 2022 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBFourth-generation corn and soybean farmer Jeff Frank doesn't feel rich, but simply based on the skyrocketing value of his land in northwest Iowa, it's an apt way to describe him, even if he laughs at the idea. He lives in the same nearly century-old house, grows veggies in the family garden and shops at the same grocery store about 15 miles (24 kilometers) down the road. "We live the same way we have all of our lives," he said. Still, even if Frank's life hasn't changed, the several hundre...
#942 - Federal judge in Texas blocks Biden's vaccine mandate for federal workers
January 28, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.8 MBA federal judge in Texas on Friday blocked President Biden's mandate for federal workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the latest blow to the White House's vaccination efforts. Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was appointed by former President Trump, wrote that the order exceeded the president's authority. The case is about "whether the President can, with the stroke of a pen and without the input of Congress, require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure as a conditi...
#941 - 'Worst house on best block' of San Francisco sells for nearly $2 million
January 27, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.8 MBA decaying, 122-year-old Victorian marketed as "the worst house on the best block" of San Francisco has sold for nearly $2 million — an eye-catching price that the realtor said was the outcome of overbidding in an auction. A developer's $1.97 million cash offer for the 2,158-square-foot (200-square-meter) property in the Noe Valley neighborhood was finalized last week. On the social media page Zillow Gone Wild, some commenters marveled at the price while others questioned the value of a hou...
#940 - Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard for $68.7 Billion in the Biggest Gaming Industry Deal in History
January 26, 2022 12:00 - 26 minutes - 19 MBThe deal announced by Microsoft on Tuesday, its biggest-ever and set to be the largest all-cash acquisition on record, will bolster its firepower in the booming video gaming market where it takes on leaders Tencent and Sony. Microsoft Corp is buying "Call of Duty" and "Candy Crush Saga" maker Activision Blizzard for USD 68.7 billion in the biggest gaming industry deal in history as global technology giants stake their claims to a virtual future. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.Rea...
#939 - Vishal Garg The CEO Who Fired 900 Employees Over Zoom Is Coming Back
January 26, 2022 11:00 - 17 minutes - 12.7 MBThe CEO of Better.com, best known for firing 900 employees over Zoom just before Christmas, is coming back to work. Vishal Garg is returning to his "full-time duties" as CEO, according to a letter sent to employees Tuesday from the company's board of directors. The letter noted that Garg used a leave of absence to "reflect on his leadership, reconnect with the values that make Better great and work closely with an executive coach. The online mortgage company's letter to employees, which wa...
#938 - ‘Anti-work’ threads on Reddit are fueling the Great Resignation with Millions of Users
January 25, 2022 12:00 - 22 minutes - 16.4 MBThey say you have to work hard to get ahead, but some are finding that you can work very little and still do pretty well. On Reddit, the “antiwork” subreddit is now one of the social network’s most active and engaged pages, after seeing explosive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. It currently has more than 1.6 million users, up from 180,000 in October 2020. People post epic text and e-mail screenshots of quitting their jobs, but the real heroes are so-called “idlers” — those who stay in ...
#937 - Family escape after Bellevue home slides off foundation; neighborhood evacuated
January 25, 2022 11:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBA family inside a Bellevue home escaped Monday morning after their house slid off its foundation and collapsed, and several homes in the neighborhood had to evacuate. Police and fire crews responded to a report of a water main break after 4 a.m. in the 5000 block of 139th Place Southeast. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-surdi-family-rebuild-after-loss-of-home Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire...
#936 - Walmart to Enter Metaverse With Plans to Create Cryptocurrency & NFT Collections
January 24, 2022 12:00 - 17 minutes - 12.9 MBWalmart appears to be venturing into the metaverse with plans to create its own cryptocurrency and collection of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. The big-box retailer filed several new trademarks late last month that indicate its intent to make and sell virtual goods, including electronics, home decorations, toys, sporting goods and personal care products. In a separate filing, Walmart said it would offer users a virtual currency, as well as NFTs. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of...
#935 - January is shaping up to be the most competitive month in housing history
January 24, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.6 MBThe median home sale price surged 16% year over year during the week ending January 9 to an all-time high of $365,000. Prices keep climbing because the supply drought keeps deepening while demand increases. The number of homes for sale fell to a new low as listings hit the market at a slower rate than they did early last year. Yet homebuyer activity–as measured by the Redfin Homebuyer Demand Index–jumped 9%. Mortgage rates rose to 3.45% during the seven days ending January 13, making homebuy...
#934 - Rail car thefts increase 160% in LA County, leaving train tracks littered with debris
January 23, 2022 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.7 MBThe scene was a stretch of railroad tracks in Lincoln Heights on Saturday: a blizzard of torn plastic wrappers, cardboard boxes and paper packaging attesting to a wave of rail car thievery that officials say has been on the rise in recent months. Several scavengers picked through the debris, hoping to find electronics, clothes or whatever valuables thieves left behind. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our ent...
#933 - President Biden Reverses Trump-Era Rule On Dishwasher, Washer, Dryer Efficiency
January 21, 2022 12:00 - 8 minutes - 6.67 MBPresident Joe Biden issued a rule Wednesday reversing a move by former President Donald Trump to exempt washers, dryers and dishwashers from efficiency regulations. The Trump-era rule created separate product categories for dishwashers that took 60 minutes or fewer per cycle and washers and dryers that took less than 45 minutes. Under Trump's "shortcycle" category, these appliances were exempt from efficiency regulations. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PRE...
#932 - Supreme Court Blocks Biden Covid Vaccine Mandate For Large Private Businesses
January 21, 2022 11:00 - 22 minutes - 16.2 MBThe Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its sweeping vaccine-or-test requirements for large private companies, but allowed a vaccine mandate to stand for medical facilities that take Medicare or Medicaid payments. The rulings came three days after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s emergency measure for businesses started to take effect. The mandate required that workers at businesses with 100 or more employees get vaccinated or submit...
#931 - Mortgage Rates Surged to 3.63% Last Week — The Highest They’ve Been Since April 2020
January 20, 2022 12:00 - 24 minutes - 17.4 MBThe average 30-year fixed mortgage rate jumped up again last week, to 3.63% — the highest it’s been since April 2020. Last week’s jump — rising by 23 basis points — is the largest weekly increase in nearly 2 years. It’s also the third week in a row that rates increased. The rising rates can be partly attributed to a recent surge in inflation, experts say, which new data shows hit a 40-year high in December. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reaso...
#930 - Dog Rescued After Being Trapped For Days Inside Seattle House That Slid Off Foundations
January 20, 2022 11:00 - 11 minutes - 8.44 MBLast week, a house in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood slid off its foundations, and while the two residents were largely unharmed, one of their two dogs was found deceased, while the other was not located. On Thursday, that dog was found alive inside the home. House in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood slides off foundations after heavy rain This came after family friend Remy Olivier passed by the house and heard a noise coming from inside. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.Reasonabl...
#929 - Woodland Park, Site of Seattle’s Largest Encampment, Now “Highest-Priority Site In the City”
January 19, 2022 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14.8 MBA large, longstanding encampment in Upper Woodland Park has now become “the highest-priority site in the city,” City Councilmember Dan Strauss, whose district includes the park, told PubliCola yesterday. Strauss and Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office said city officials are meeting weekly with outreach providers to come up with a strategy for the encampment, which includes about 70 tents and as many as 100 people, including some who had been living in a nearby encampment the city’s Parks Departmen...
#928 - Seattle's Mayor Bruce Harrell Extends Eviction Moratorium Until February 14th
January 19, 2022 11:00 - 18 minutes - 13.6 MBSeattle Mayor Bruce Harrell will extend the city's eviction and utility shutoff moratorium until February 14. The Mayor's Office says Harrell will extend the moratorium through executive order, pushing residential evictions, small business and nonprofit commercial tenant evictions back another 30 days. "As this rapid surge in cases driven by the Omicron variant drives further pandemic uncertainty, keeping vulnerable people in their homes must be the immediate focus," said Harrell. "Over t...
#927 - Officers Don’t Leave The PPB After Nearly 3 Decades Because Things Are Good
January 18, 2022 12:00 - 44 minutes - 31.3 MBLars received this letter sent to the chiefs with Portland’s Police Bureau from a police officer named “Stephanie” who sent it to the top folks at PPB in response to a letter she recieved regarding the PPB’s retire/rehire program. Lars and Stephanie felt it was important to make sure you can see the point of view of one of our brave law enforcement officers at the mercy of liberal politicians. Dear PPB Chiefs, I can only assume that the letter regarding the retire/rehire program was sent t...
#926 - Here's Why Store Shelves Are Empty Again In Parts Of The United States
January 18, 2022 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14.8 MBThe Covid omicron variant's rapid spread among workers and a bad stretch of winter weather have made a challenging supply chain situation worse. The recent spread of the omicron variant among supply chain workers, sour weather and even a recall of bagged salads and vegetables have caused Americans to once again find barren shelves at supermarkets or retail stores. While industry leaders hope this latest supply chain foul-up will be a short-term frustration, it comes amid the ongoing chall...
#925 - Inflation Is Still Surging And Some Democrats See One Culprit: Greedy Companies
January 17, 2022 12:00 - 24 minutes - 17.4 MBThe latest inflation report shows what most Americans already know: Prices are still climbing rapidly. The Labor Department said Wednesday that consumer prices in December were up 7% from a year ago — the biggest hit to family pocketbooks in about 40 years. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content library: https://ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow...
#924 - Inflation Reaches Highest Level Since 1982 as Consumer Prices Jump 7% in 2021
January 17, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.7 MBAnother month, another record-setting leap in prices. Inflation hit a fresh 39-year high in December as a drop in energy costs wasn’t enough to offset a steady march upward for staples such as food, rent and cars amid stubborn supply-chain bottlenecks and worker shortages. The consumer price index jumped 7% last year, the fastest pace since 1982, the Labor Department said Wednesday. That's up from 6.8% annually in November, which was also a nearly four-decade high. Support the show 🛍️ Merc...
#923 - A Rural Washington School Board Race Shows How Far-Right Extremists Are Shifting To Local Power
January 16, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.8 MBPresented as “defending liberty,” extremism analysts say, those far-right views are spreading in conservative places like Eatonville, where the school board race spiraled into a fight over mask mandates and how race is taught in school. Cole lost by more than 200 votes. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content library: https://ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat...
#922 - California’s Public Golf Courses to be Converted to Affordable Housing Complexes Under AB 672
January 15, 2022 11:00 - 19 minutes - 14.3 MBA bill in the California Legislature authored by Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) is proposing to convert California public/municipal golf courses into affordable housing. Assembly Bill 672 provides $50 million in developer subsidies to redevelop California’s municipal golf courses into affordable housing complexes. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content library: https://ReasonableTV...
#921 - Seattle’s New Way of Measuring Homelessness Produces Startling Results
January 14, 2022 11:00 - 18 minutes - 13.1 MBOfficials in Seattle believe they have developed a more accurate way of counting the number of people experiencing homelessness during a given time. It’s already producing startling results. According to a report released in mid-December, more than 40,800 people experiencing homelessness in the Seattle metropolitan area last year compared to the 11,700 counted under the federal Point in Time Count (PIT) method. This total includes more than 7,300 people who fell through the cracks of the HM...
#920 - Portland Police Bureau Forms New Team To Stop Gun Violence After Record Shootings
January 13, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.3 MBPortland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced earlier this week he would be disbanding the police bureau’s often criticized Gun Violence Reduction Team. The team, which has gone through several name changes, was found to disproportionately be targeting black Portlanders during traffic stops, according to an audit in March 2018. The audit also claimed the “Gang Enforcement Unit” wasn’t necessarily focusing on suspected gang members. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PR...
#919 - COVID Vaccine Mandate For Large Employers Unlikely To Survive The Supreme Court
January 12, 2022 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15.6 MBThe Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-test requirement for large employers may not survive the conservative-leaning Supreme Court, according to one legal expert. The court heard arguments Friday on a challenge to the mandate, which applies to businesses with at least 100 employees. Conservative justices on the court appeared to view the administration’s requirement as overstepping government authority. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with R...
#918 - Portland, Oregon Saw A Record 90 Homicides in 2021 Which Is The Most Violent Year Ever
January 11, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29.9 MBWhen Samuel D. Howard Jr. lost his 18-year-old daughter to gun violence, he convinced his other children and a nephew who was like a son to him to get counseling to work through their collective grief. Then tragedy struck once more. Less than a year and a half after his daughter Shai’India Harris died, the nephew, 19-year-old Keion Cordell Howard, was shot and killed on Dec. 4 in North Portland. - Dan Chapman - Mortgage Loans Made Easy With over 17 years of experience as a professionally ...
#917 - How 3D Printing Can Be The Solution To The Nation’s Affordable Housing Crisis
January 10, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBApril Stringfield has rented apartments since her early twenties and often worked two to three jobs to make ends meet. Fueled by the desire to own a home, she applied for affordable housing provided by Habitat for Humanity. She and her teenage son just moved into their new, 1,200-square-feet-home in Williamsburg, Virginia, constructed with the help of a 3D printer. “It’s unbelievable,” Stringfield, 35, said. “It’s like a dream come true.” Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.Reason...
#916 - Did SPD Spread Misinformation of "Proud Boys" Going to Chop/Chaz?
January 09, 2022 11:00 - 22 minutes - 16.1 MBSeattle police actively spread misinformation about the presence of right-wing extremists in an effort to distract activists at a Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) amid racial justice demonstrations in 2020, a city watchdog alleges. Knowing that activists were listening to police radio chatter, officers engaged in a "mock broadcast" that transmitted false information that a group of armed Proud Boys were on their way to Cal Anderson Park from downtown, alleges a report from the Seattle ...
#915 - The Small Business Boom: Almost 5 Million New Businesses Launched In 2022
January 07, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 22.3 MBA surge in new business formation suggests that the coronavirus pandemic has created a landscape in which entrepreneurs and startups can thrive and new innovations can break ground. “This time has been really fertile. We’ve seen a huge increase in new businesses since the pandemic started,” said Julia Pollak, the chief economist at ZipRecruiter. “There are more opportunities out there.” Government data show a record gap between the number of job openings and the number of unemployed peopl...
#914 - Walmart & Kroger Raise At-Home Covid Test Prices After White House Agreement Expires
January 06, 2022 12:00 - 19 minutes - 14.2 MBWalmart and Kroger raised the price of Abbott's at-home Covid-19 test kit after an agreement with the White House to sell the tests at a reduced price expired, the companies said Tuesday. The BinaxNOW kit, one of the first at-home tests to be authorized by the federal government, was listed on Walmart's website Tuesday for $19.88, up from $14 last month. Kroger listed the tests for $23.99. President Joe Biden announced the agreement with Walmart, Amazon and Kroger in September, saying it w...
#913 - Disturbing Allegations Emerge About Nonprofit Hired to End Bitter Lake Encampment in Seattle
January 06, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 26.9 MBWhen the volunteer-run organization Anything Helps, headed by a man who said he could do homeless encampment outreach better, approached Seattle Public Schools this summer and offered to end an encampment outside Broadview-Thompson K-12, the school district agreed. The district was under pressure from people in the surrounding Bitter Lake neighborhood to remove the 60-plus-person encampment, and had argued with the city of Seattle for much of the past year about whose responsibility it was ...
#912 - Baby Boomer Rock Icons Are Selling The Rights To Their Songs
January 05, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21.5 MBFrom Bob Dylan plugging in his electric guitar for the first time to Super Bowl commercials, there have always been moments in music history when the most die-hard fans will accuse their idols of doing the unthinkable: selling out. But right now ”’selling out” has a new connotation, and it is a boom market for both investors and superstar recording artists. A wave of boomer rock icons are selling out of their song catalogs. The moves, the latest of which was made by Paul Simon last week, po...
#911 - Satander Bank Accidentally Paid Thousands of People $175 Million on Christmas Due to Glitch
January 05, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBSantander UK is trying to recoup about $175 million (130 million pounds) that it accidentally transferred to customers on Christmas Day. A technical error led 75,000 scheduled and one-off payments to be paid twice by the bank's system, The Times of London first reported. A spokesperson for the bank said that the error had been identified and rectified. The bank will work to recover the duplicated transactions over the coming days, the spokesperson added. The error affected 2,000 commer...
#910 - Sea-Tac Airport Canceled Most Incoming & Outgoing Flights In The World Due To COVID & Snow
January 04, 2022 12:00 - 24 minutes - 17.6 MBInside Sea-Tac airport, it’s still long lines, delays, and tired travelers like Ethan Ford, stranded after another flight cancellation. Data from flightaware.com shows Sea-Tac Airport has seen the world's highest number of incoming and outgoing flights canceled in the world. Amid staffing shortages and these weather conditions, travelers are hoping for some relief “Our bags we’re waiting for our bags," Ford said. "They said they’re going to bring them to this carousel." But he’s still wa...
#909 - CDC Faces Criticism That It's Gone From Following Science To Following CEOS
January 04, 2022 11:00 - 35 minutes - 25.2 MBMore than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to their highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant. New cases per day have more than doubled over the past two weeks, eclipsing the old mark of 250,000, set in mid-January, according to data kept by Johns Hopkins University. The fast-spreading mutant version of the virus has cast a pall over Christmas and New Year...
#908 - Real Estate Agents Are Using This Technique to Ignite Bidding Wars
January 03, 2022 12:00 - 18 minutes - 13.3 MBThey’re writing the book on how to ignite bidding wars. The New York Times is reporting real estate agents are using novels, biographies, and how-tos as ammunition for price battles between pandemic buyers seeking homes with quiet places where one can relax and take in a good read. “Even when I stage a house, I put books in them,” Morgan Munsey, who sells for Compass in Brooklyn and Manhattan, told the newspaper, noting that he has seen bidding wars break out over well-stocked libraries. ...
#907 - Seeking Union Vote, Workers at Seattle Starbucks Bring Labor Push to Coffee Giant’s Hometown
January 03, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.6 MBWeeks after a successful union drive in New York state, workers at a Seattle Starbucks store are moving forward with a unionization effort, bringing the coffee chain’s high-profile labor fight to its hometown. Employees at a Starbucks in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood filed a petition Monday with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to hold a union election on Jan. 10. “We do not see our desire to unionize as a reaction to specific policies, events, or changes, but rather a com...
#906 - Rents for single-family homes are rising three times as fast as they were a year ago
January 02, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.3 MBDemand for single-family rental homes is so strong that rents have nowhere to go but up, and they are rising at an increasingly fast pace. Single-family rents in October were up 10.9% year over year, according to the latest report from CoreLogic. That is three times the 3.2% annual growth seen in October 2020. The jump comes as too much demand meets not enough supply. Vacancy rates on these homes are now at a 25-year low, as an increasingly competitive and pricey for-sale housing market dr...
#905 - Portland, Oregon: A Once Great American City Has Become a Dystopian Ghost Town
December 31, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBA once great American city has become something short of a dystopia, where shop owners sleep with shotguns and citizens must act as police. For seven months, Dylan Carrico Rogers slept in his bike shop with a shotgun. TriTech Bikes, located in the Montavilla neighborhood of northeast Portland, Ore., where Rogers grew up, had been battered by three break-ins, two nearby shootings, and countless instances of vandalism. Portland’s serially understaffed police force was nowhere to be found. A...