Fired African-American police officer seeks $5M in damages

A small town in the shadow of a volcano in Washington state is simmering with racial tensions over a fired African-American's police officer's claims of discrimination. Gerry Pickens, 28, alleges he suffered racist jokes, different treatment from the entirely-white rest of the force and an undeserved dismissal at the end of his first-year probationary period with the Orting Police Department last year, The Washington Post reported .



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Whose Financial Advice Can You Trust?

Asked to define fiduciary, many Americans might take a pass, especially as it applies to investment advice. News that the Department of Labor might extend a fiduciary standard to everyone who advises investors on retirement accounts sent interested parties on Wall Street and in Washington into a tizzy of overblown rhetoric and accusations.



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County making ground in some areas, but losing ground in others

Before the start of the Great Recession in 2007, a total of 56,000 jobs employed residents across Chautauqua County. Today, the county has lost almost 5,000 of those jobs, according to John Slenker, labor analyst with the New York State Department of Labor.



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Problems at VA hospitals continue

True public servants are frowned upon by some in the federal bureaucracy. Anyone daring to rock the boat by going public with evidence of malfeasance risks retaliation.



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ADA Commemoration Turns Confrontational

The presence of the lieutenant governor at an event celebrating the Americans with Disabilities Act wasn't a welcome sight for one man. Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti was among the speakers at the Chicago launch of ADA 25, a nationwide effort to commemorate the law's anniversary.



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Dave Andelman: Minimum wage hike will cost more teen jobs

School will let out soon, and a crisis of teen summer unemployment will be upon us. Our state already has 1 million adults who are under-employed or collect welfare or unemployment.



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Whistles still blowing over VA problems

True public servants are frowned upon by some in the federal bureaucracy. Anyone daring to rock the boat by going public with evidence of malfeasance risks retaliation.



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County Slow To Recover

Before the start of the Great Recession in 2007, a total of 56,000 jobs employed residents across Chautauqua County.



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Big Data's Disparate Impact

Big data claims to be neutral. It isn't.Advocates of algorithmic techniques like data mining argue that they eliminate human biases from the decision-making process.



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Sen. Kennedy RememberedSAIL AWAY

The Democratic Party's most stalwart defender of civil rights, labor rights, health care, immigration, housing and education for nearly five decades in the U.S. Senate has left us. On Tuesday night, cancer claimed the life of Edward M. Kennedy, the 77-year-old senior senator from Massachusetts.



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Top 5 Industries in New York: Which Parts of the Economy Are Strongest?

When people think of industries in New York, they often think of Wall Street, Broadway and the transportation hubs that tie the Eastern Seaboard together. There is more to the state of New York than what can fit on a postcard from the Big Apple.



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The glamorous exceptions to Obama's war on whistleblowers

While the Obama administration relentlessly pursues those who reveal crimes and wrongdoing, senior figures are allowed to leak with impunity. The Obama administration is notoriously hardline on whistleblowers.



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Americans with Disabilities Act 25th Anniversary Celebratory PSA Released

On the ADA's 100 day countdown to the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, we are pleased to announce the release of a universally designed 46 sec PSA marking the 25th anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act . This PSA highlights several events leading up to as well as the signing of the ADA by President George H. W. Bush on July 26, 1990.



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Three Rivers Community College to host forum Friday on youth unemployment

The forum “Out of School and Unemployed Youth Ages 16-24” will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in room F-117 at Three Rivers Community College at 574 New London Turnpike in Norwich. A panel of local experts will focus on job training, educational and employment opportunities and social services available to the target age groups.



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Employee Wellness Programs: Finally, Some Guidance

In the years since the Affordable Care Act was implemented, more and more employers are trying to both help their employees get healthier and keep group health plan costs down by implementing wellness programs in the workplace. Problem is, there wasn't much guidance for how anti-discrimination laws such as the Americans With Disabilities Act should play into workplace wellness regimes .



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Report: Hostile workplace at university Alzheimer's center

In a letter to research center staff, a UCLA administrator wrote that an outside investigator concluded some men discriminated against three women, including retaliation for reporting problems with research protocol. The work environment at the center that specializes in the neurological disorder "compromises our research, teaching and patient care," wrote Jonathan Hiatt, vice dean for faculty at the university, the Los Angeles Times reported .



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Report: Hostile workplace at university Alzheimer's center

An investigation found that female faculty at the Alzheimer's disease research center at the University of California, Los Angeles , worked under hostile conditions, according to a newspaper report. In a letter to research center staff, a UCLA administrator wrote that an outside investigator concluded some men discriminated against three women, including retaliation for reporting problems with research protocol.



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Report: Hostile workplace at university Alzheimer's center

An investigation at the University of California, Los Angeles, medical school found that female professors at its Alzheimer's disease research center worked under hostile conditions. The Los Angeles Times reported that a letter from a UCLA administrator to center staff said the work environment compromised patient care and research.



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Report: Hostile workplace at university Alzheimer's center

An investigation at the University of California, Los Angeles, medical school found that female professors at its Alzheimer's disease research center worked under hostile conditions. The Los Angeles Times reported that a letter from a UCLA administrator to center staff said the work environment compromised patient care and research.



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Tax Fraud Blotter: Breaking Bad

Las Vegas: Preparer Rosherral Beverly has been indicted on 66 counts of preparing and causing the filing of false returns. According to the indictment, from approximately 2006 through 2011 Beverly, who was sole owner and preparer for the tax preparation and bookkeeping business RBTB, did fraudulent returns for her clients for the tax years 2008, 2009 and 2010.



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