“Doing Business With DOT”: First-Time-Ever Event Expands Opportunities and Access in New Procurement Season

Event at DOT Headquarters advances DOT’s ambitious goals to create a level playing-field by attracting businesses of all sizes, including opportunities for Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises

“Doing Business With DOT”: First-Time-Ever Event Expands Opportunities and Access in New Procurement Season

Monday, July 18, 2022, Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez speaks at the Doing Business with DOT event. | Photo Credit: NY DOT NEW YORK—NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, joined by Mayor’s Office of Contract Services Director/Chief City Procurement Officer Lisa M. Flores, Small Business Services Commissioner Kevin D. Kim and NYC Department of Design & […]

PARAISO Miami Beach Kicks Off Day One With a Full Roster of Resort 2023 Shows, Activations, and Eve

PARAISO Miami Beach Kicks Off Day One With a Full Roster of Resort 2023 Shows, Activations, and Eve

Day one of PARAISO Miami Beach, the official industry platform of swim week, brought the heat with the biggest and baddest events, live shows, and activations in Miami, kicking off with a beautiful ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the debut of Espacio VOGUE, a salon-style fashion and beauty popup shop at the PARAISO Bungalow, attended by Karla Martínez de Salas, Head […]

JAMAICA | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Leads a Jamaican 100m Clean Sweep at the World Athletics Championships 2022 in a Time of 10.67 Seconds

JAMAICA | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Leads a Jamaican 100m Clean Sweep at the World Athletics Championships 2022 in a Time of 10.67 Seconds

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica wins the women’s 100m during the Wanda Diamond League 2022, Meeting de Paris (Athletics) on June 18, 2022 at Charlety stadium in Paris, France. (Shutterstock) By WiredJA News Team The Jamaican women have done it again, by producing yet another historic Track and Field clean sweep. This time in the final […]

Gang Violence in Port-au-Prince Threatens More Than a Million Food-Insecure Haitians

Gang Violence in Port-au-Prince Threatens More Than a Million Food-Insecure Haitians

Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 11.01.2015: View of Port au Prince and the Jalousie, an extremely poor district of Pétionville suburb of Port-au-Prince. (Shutterstock) In addition to being hit hard by the global food and fuel crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in recent decades, Haitians have been subjected to devastating earthquakes, tropical storms, landslides and […]

Skittles Are Toxic, Federal Lawsuit Claims

Skittles Are Toxic, Federal Lawsuit Claims

By Jonathan Stempel, Insurance Journal Mars Inc. has been sued by a consumer who claims that Skittles candies are unfit to eat because they contain a known toxin that the company had pledged six years ago to phase out. In a proposed class action filed on Thursday in the Oakland, California federal court, Jenile Thames […]

Is Monkeypox a Pandemic? An Epidemiologist Explains Why it Isn’t Likely to Become as Widespread as COVID-19, but is Worth Watching

Is Monkeypox a Pandemic? An Epidemiologist Explains Why it Isn’t Likely to Become as Widespread as COVID-19, but is Worth Watching

By Kathryn H. Jacobsen, The Conversation Monkeypox is the latest global public health threat to make headlines. Most people who contract the monkeypox virus experience flu-like symptoms and a blistery rash that lasts two to four weeks, but a small percentage of infected people develop sepsis or other severe and potentially fatal complications. It is […]

More Young Voters Could Come out to Vote in November, Sparked by Abortion and Other Hot Political Issues

More Young Voters Could Come out to Vote in November, Sparked by Abortion and Other Hot Political Issues

By Abby Kiesa, The Conversation The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion has far-reaching personal and political implications and may help decide the midterm elections in November 2022. That influence extends to young people’s election participation. People ages 18 to 29 have historically been less likely to vote than older […]

DiNapoli: New Yorkers Struggling to Pay Utility Bills

Bankruptcy Attorney Brian Figeroux discusses options.

DiNapoli: New Yorkers Struggling to Pay Utility Bills

New York, NY – January 18, 2021: Thomas DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller speaks during Martin Luther King celebration at NAN headquarters. (Shutterstock) By Chris Tobias The devastating number of job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant increase in the number of residential customers owing money to their utility companies, with one […]