TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Teachers and other government employees will have to write monthly checks if they want to stay in their union after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Tuesday banning automatic dues deductions from public employees’ paychecks,
The anti-union bill also gives employees the right to immediately quit a union for no reason and requires unions to recertify if the number of dues-paying members drops below 60% of those eligible to join.
“If you want to join, you can, but you write a check and you hand it over. That is gonna lead to more take-home pay…
A health screeningUS federal health officials say two hospitals broke the law by denying an abortion to a woman experiencing a life-threatening emergency.
The hospitals, in Kansas and Missouri, are now being investigated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The investigation is the first of its kind to be launched since the Supreme Court invalidated the national right to an abortion last year.
Numerous states have issued regulations and bans on abortion since that ruling.
Following the Supreme Court ruling, the White House warned hospitals that doctors must provide abortions if the patient’s health is at…
Comment on this storyComments“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and wouldn’t lose any voters.” — Donald TrumpFox News could plop one of its prime time anchors at a desk in the middle of Sixth Avenue, in front of Fox’s headquarters, and the anchor could report that John Wilkes Booth killed Marilyn Monroe on the grassy knoll in Dallas’s Dealey Plaza. And Fox News would not lose its core viewers.In recent months there has been an avalanche of evidence that Fox News thinks of its audience as akin to campus snowflakes easily…
Some of the problems that commonly arise relating to finances upon separation include:Hiding of assets
Bank accounts being drained
Selling off property
Bills not being paid (eg mortgages, loans, credit cards)
Lack of access to financial resources; or
Lack of knowledge about current financial positionWhen it comes time to finalize how you are going to divide your assets (referred to as a financial or property settlement), it is what is remaining that is shared. So, if money is moved, spent or wasted, what is left over is what can be divided in that settlement. There is no opportunity…