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1. Cycling Fatalities Reach 46-Year High

   Cyclist fatalities reached a multi-decade high in 2021. According to a recent report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 966 pedal cyclists were killed in traffic crashes in 2021. That marked the most deaths in one year since 1975. …

2. Keys Staffing Firm Owner Gets 32 Months for Illegal Worker Tax Violations

   The owner of several Key West staffing companies is on his way to prison after a federal judge sentenced him to more than two years for hiring unauthorized alien workers and failing to pay taxes on their wages. Batyr Myatiev, …

3. Oregon City to Clear Sidewalk Tents to Settle Lawsuit with People With Disabilities

   Portland, Oregon will remove tents blocking sidewalks under a tentative settlement in a lawsuit brought by people with disabilities who said sprawling homeless encampments prevent them from navigating Oregon’s most populous city. The federal class action lawsuit, filed in September, …

4. Finding Ways to Get Polluters to Pay for Climate Damages

   The biggest achievement at the annual United Nations climate summit last year was committing to create a fund that would compensate the poorestcop28 for destruction wrought by global warming. One of the questions at the upcoming COP28 summit will be …

5. Child Sexual Assault Lawsuit Bill Fails to Advance in Pennsylvania

   Child sexual abuse survivors pressed Pennsylvania lawmakers Monday to move ahead with opening a two-year window for them to file otherwise outdated lawsuits over their claims, but a partisan fight in the Legislature kept the proposal bottled up with no …

6. Vermont School Settles 1st Amendment Suit by Coach Over Comments on Trans Athlete

   A Vermont school district will reinstate a middle school soccer coach who was suspended for misgendering a transgender female athlete, and will delete any reference to bullying investigations from his daughter’s school record, under the settlement of a lawsuit that …

7. Takeaways from Our Conversation on ‘Behavior Products’

   At first glance, it would be tempting to write off ventures like Behavior Labs or reepher, as consumer-oriented endeavors with little more than passing interest for insurance professionals specializing in cannabis. reepher, for example, is s a new type of …

8. Demolition Company Vows Repairs After Implosion Fallout Damages Nearby Homes

   A blast of air and dust from the implosion of two smokestacks at a shuttered coal-fired power plant in western Pennsylvania last week felled power poles and caused damage to nearby homes. But the demolition company is vowing full repairs. …