Newark Local 100 members sent their petitions into their Congressional delegations in Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana at the end of last week. The Raise the Wages Act is finally coming to debate in the House of Representatives this week. The bill would raise the federal minimum to $15 per hour over a period of years. …
Month: July 2019
Thank Goodness for a Tropical Storm Barry “Nothing Burger”
New Orleans It was so quiet that it felt like living in the country. If there had been more stars and fewer houses, I might have thought I was stepping out of my trailer in Wyoming, rather than standing on my porch at 3AM to check on the Tropical Storm Barry. There was hardly a …
Calm Before the Storm
New Orleans We checked the storm reports on Tropical Storm, wannabe hurricane, Barry, constantly as we prepared to leave Milwaukee. We were confident that we could get to Houston, but the last leg into New Orleans, scheduled to land at 9PM, might be a different matter, if winds were rising before landfall. Everything seemed to …