Most cases of sexual harassment are handled quietly and privately. If they occur in a workplace, the perpetrators are disciplined, sometimes fired. Only rarely, when someone files a lawsuit, are harassment situations made public. Last week, yet another alleged instance of abuse by someone in ...
With Hurricane Florence bearing down on the East Coast, many people in the Carolinas and surrounding areas are evacuating. People in the path of the storm aren’t the only ones at risk. Animals at shelters, like one in Norfolk, Virginia, are being evacuated as well, according to Associated ...
Imagine sitting in your living room on a Thursday afternoon, casually watching TV or reading the newspaper. You just got home from work, and are waiting for your spouse to come home for a nice dinner. Boom! Bang! Blast! Boom! Suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, your house explodes. You ...
Earlier in the summer, we urged Nashua Board of Education members to conduct their meetings in a more civil manner. We asked them to consider their purpose, in addition to the fact they should serve as quality role models for administrators, teachers and students. Apparently, some did not get ...
There’s weird, and then there is at least the appearance of dangerously weird, to wit: When JerriAnne Boggis’s name ended up on a list on the website of a white supremacist group, it was the follow-up to that listing that should have all of us concerned and appalled. Boggis, of Milford, ...
We hear a lot about unemployment rates, the gross domestic product, business inventories and a variety of other economic indicators. But among the most interesting are productivity reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In essence, productivity data compares the value of goods and ...