Friday, December 27

Tag: Northeast U.S.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Rejects Ban on Noncompete Agreements
23Dec By adminNo Comments
World

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Rejects Ban on Noncompete Agreements

Updated Dec. 23, 2023 10:34 am ETALBANY, N.Y.—New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed legislation that would have banned noncompete agreements for employees, after business groups warned such a measure would push jobs out of state.Hochul, a Democrat, said Friday that she supported eliminating noncompete agreements for low and middle-income workers. She had floated a compromise with Democratic lawmakers in Albany in which noncompete clauses would remain for higher-paid employees but a flurry of negotiations, including through Friday, ended without a deal.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More
The Great Blue to Red State Migration Continues
23Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

The Great Blue to Red State Migration Continues

The migrant border mess is benefiting progressive states like New York, California and Illinois in one respect: It’s offsetting some of their population loss from droves of taxpayers fleeing to lower-cost and low-tax states. That’s one lesson from new Census Bureau state population data released this week.The U.S. population increased by 1.6 million between July 2022 and July 2023, with states in the South accounting for about 1.4 million of the growth. Leading the boom were Texas (473,453), Florida (365,205), Georgia (116,077), South Carolina (90,600) and Tennessee (77,512). Driving their growth was migration from other states.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More
Dean Phillips, the Democrat Who Says Biden Can’t Win
22Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

Dean Phillips, the Democrat Who Says Biden Can’t Win

New YorkJoe Biden is asking voters to let him field the nuclear football until he’s 86, which is an obvious political vulnerability. Yet many Democrats fear that acknowledging this in a voice louder than a library whisper would help Donald Trump and damage their inevitable 2024 nominee. Rep. Dean Phillips has no qualms about weakening Mr. Biden. “He’s going to lose anyway,” the Minnesota Democrat says. “I don’t see any way for Biden to beat Trump in any circumstance whatsoever.” The people truly undermining Mr. Biden are the ones “propagating this delusion that he can be the next president.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More
Rudy Giuliani Files for Bankruptcy After Losing Election Worker Defamation Case
21Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Rudy Giuliani Files for Bankruptcy After Losing Election Worker Defamation Case

Updated Dec. 21, 2023 1:46 pm ET|WSJ ProRudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and ex-lawyer for Donald Trump, has filed for bankruptcy after a court ordered him to pay nearly $150 million to two Georgia election workers for defaming them.Giuliani filed for chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, reporting estimated assets of between $1 million and $10 million and estimated liabilities of at least $152 million.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More
New York Times Staffers Form Journalistic ‘Independence Caucus’ Amid Concerns Over Union’s Actions
17Dec By adminNo Comments
World

New York Times Staffers Form Journalistic ‘Independence Caucus’ Amid Concerns Over Union’s Actions

Dozens of New York Times employees have formed a group to take a stand on journalistic independence as concerns grow that the labor union that represents the Times and other outlets has veered toward advocacy.The Times faction, which includes high-profile journalists such as Megan Twohey, Julian Barnes and Emily Bazelon, has created what it calls an “independence caucus” within the NewsGuild-CWA, the parent of the Times’s newsroom union that represents some 1,500 people at the publication.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More
Jeffrey Epstein Never Stopped Abusing Women—and His VIP Circle Helped Make It Possible
17Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Jeffrey Epstein Never Stopped Abusing Women—and His VIP Circle Helped Make It Possible

Listen to article(2 minutes)In March 2014, Jeffrey Epstein took his private jet to Seattle to visit Bill Gates at his office. Epstein brought along a Polish model he had met a few months earlier. Dressed in a long gray coat, she posed for a photo with the Microsoft co-founder. Epstein took the picture.Looking at the photograph now brings back difficult memories for the Polish model, who was then in her 20s. She notes how young she looks at the time. And how strange she must have appeared to Gates and other famous people that Epstein was escorting her to meet.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More
Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of December 17
17Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of December 17

By WSJ Arts in Review Staff Film• “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” (Dec. 22): Jason Momoa splashes back into action as the DC superhero, protecting Atlantis from the evil Black Manta (played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). Director James Wan captains a cast that includes Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren, Randall Park and Patrick Wilson. • “Anyone but You” (Dec. 22): Much digital ink has been spilled regarding the chemistry between the stars of Will Gluck’s romcom about a pair of vacationers—played by Sydney Sweeney (“The White Lotus”) and Glen Powell (“Top Gun: Maverick”)—who detest each other but find themselves thrown together at a destination wedding in Australia. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 ...
Read More
‘Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me’ Review: A Theatrical New York Debut
17Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

‘Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me’ Review: A Theatrical New York Debut

New YorkShary Boyle is a lot of things: sculptor, painter, draftsperson, performer, filmmaker. But above all she’s a storyteller. That is abundantly clear in “Outside the Palace of Me,” the Canadian artist’s solo show at the Museum of Arts and Design that warrants as many descriptions as she does: transportive, theatrical, whimsical and captivating, to name just a few.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More
Samuel Morse’s Moving Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette
16Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

Samuel Morse’s Moving Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette

Samuel Morse came to Washington in February 1825, an ambitious but frustrated 33-year-old artist. Before the discovery of telegraphy and the code that bears his name, he was nearly as well known for his paintings as for his father, the famed geographer Jedidiah Morse. Or as the Marquis de Lafayette jested to his son Georges Washington, “this is Mr. Morse, the painter, the son of the geographer; he has come to Washington to take the topography of my face.” Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More