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BOSTON (CBS) — Boston firefighters responded to a fire at a two-family home in West Roxbury Saturday morning. The department said one person, in particular, helped get crews to the scene fast. “A big THANK YOU to the resident that ran to alert firehouse #55 of the blaze at 5081 Washington St. this morning,” Boston Fire tweeted . “Your efforts made the silver lining of a bad situation.” READ MORE: Injured Bishop Feehan Hockey Player AJ Quetta Named To CCL All-Star Team A big THANK YOU to the resident that ran to alert firehouse #55 of the blaze at 5081 Washington St. this morning. Your efforts made the silver lining of a bad situation. All residents are safe. Thank you to @BostonSparks who always show to help our companies maintain for duty pic.twitter.com/NhaLWfdP5y — Boston Fire Dept. (@BostonFire) February 27, 2021 READ MORE: Arrest Warrant Issued For MIT Grad Student Qinxuan Pan In Slaying Of Yale Student The Red Cross was called to help four residents … [Read more...] about Boston Fire Department Thanks Resident For Running To Firehouse To Report Blaze

A recent white paper from PiiQ Media says that bots on several social media sites were building coordinated hype around so-called “meme stocks” like GameStop, Reuters reports. PiiQ Media found that tens of thousands of bots on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube have been pushing meme assets, according to a report provided to the Daily Caller by the Massachusetts-based cybersecurity firm. However, the assessment was inconclusive on how influential the bots actually were in the trading phenomenon that captured media headlines and American’s attention in late January to early February, the report said. GameStop stock just jumped 100 percent, and WallStreetBets is ecstatic https://t.co/qHMHZ8lPGg pic.twitter.com/hCDewolUZs — The Verge (@verge) February 24, 2021 “Recent congressional testimony around this issue stated that there was no evidence this activity was artificial or being centrally controlled, but that it was organic conversations engaged in by real … [Read more...] about Study Finds Online Bots Helped Hype GameStop Stock

Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley introduced legislation Friday that would require billion-dollar companies to pay their employees a minimum of $15 per hour. “For decades, the wages of everyday, working Americans have remained stagnant while monopoly corporations have consolidated industry after industry, securing record profits for CEOs and investment bankers,” Hawley said in a statement . “Mega-corporations can afford to pay their workers $15 an hour, and it’s long past time they do so, but this should not come at the expense of small businesses already struggling to make it.” Today I’m introducing legislation to increase the minimum wage for big business – Senate should take an up or down vote on it https://t.co/CHe2QGemSh — Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) February 26, 2021 Hawley’s plan would require that corporations with revenues more than $1 billion pay $15 an hour and then be “indexed” to the federal median wage after 2025, according to the press release. … [Read more...] about Hawley Introduces Legislation Forcing ‘Mega-Corporations’ To Raise Their Minimum Wage

Small business organizations are speaking out against a potential minimum wage hike, saying the plan will only cause more small businesses to shutter amid a fragile economy. The National Federation of Independent Business said that “Congress should not saddle [small businesses] with a costly new mandate that will further damage the fragile economic recovery,” in a statement . “More than doubling the federal minimum wage while small businesses across America are barely surviving shutdowns due to an unprecedented pandemic is a recipe for more shuttered businesses and millions more job losses,” the American Farm Bureau Federation said in a statement. “On behalf of Main Street employers across America, we strongly oppose the Raise the Wage Act of 2021.” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposed the minimum wage hike, noting it does “not reflect a data-driven approach that incorporates wage-rate differences between business sectors and business locations,” in a statement. The … [Read more...] about ‘Recipe For More Shuttered Businesses’: Small Businesses Speak Out Against Minimum Wage Hike

President Biden Joe Biden House Democrats pass sweeping .9T COVID-19 relief bill with minimum wage hike Biden to hold virtual bilateral meeting with Mexican president More than 300 charged in connection to Capitol riot MORE is set to travel to Houston Friday to meet with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and local leaders after a rare bout of severe winter weather left dozens dead and millions without power for multiple days. The visit will mark Biden’s third official trip as president and his first to a disaster-stricken area. In addition to addressing the storm response, he’s also expected to visit a facility distributing COVID-19 vaccines. The White House says Biden will spend much of the day with Abbott, who has faced significant criticism for how the state handled the storm. More than 4 million people were without power for days as temperatures plunged below freezing and many were eventually left without water as well. Louisiana and Oklahoma suffered significant … [Read more...] about Biden turns focus to winter storm with Texas trip