Advocates say fear of financial hardship undermines bargaining leverage. Opponents say the bill will increase business costs or prolong work stoppages.
Fishing companies say long waits between seasons can be common, but labor experts say offshore foreign workers are “uniquely unprotected” under U.S. policies.
With a looming $4 billion budget shortfall, the state seeks to keep the next biennium's budget as thin as possible. Here's a list of items likely to be cut.
Sloppy. There's no other way to describe Democratic congressional candidate Darcy Burner's self-induced scandal over her exaggerated claims of receiving an economics degree from Harvard University.