Hurricane Earl took aim at North Carolina on Thursday and is on track to lash its barrier islands with dangerous winds and pounding surf before cutting a path up the U.S. East Coast.SUMATRA ISLAND. A two-year-old Indonesian boy who became an Internet sensation over his 40-a-day cigarette habit has quit smoking after the government put him through intensive therapy.From Baltimore to Lancaster avenues and along Market Street in between, University City is abuzz from the arrivals of college students and professors back after summer vacation.If you are what you eat, then most Cape Codders would be a clam — or maybe a lobster roll A land named for a type of fish should abound with chances to sample tasty seafood, and Cape Cod does not disappointWhile you can certainly find a decent number of micro-brews on tap at the city’s better pubs, it’s safe to say you won’t see a selection like this anywhere else when the Massachusetts Brewers Guild holds the Mass Brewers Summerfest on Friday. The festival brings 80 local craft beers from more than 20 breweries all together in one place.It’s a book, a play, a Broadway musical, a film — and now the American Repertory Theater is rebooting the story behind “Cabaret” as an interactive theater piece.Coming fresh off of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” reunion (did you all catch that horror show? One word: cray-cray) is the announcement that Bravo is set to release yet another Real Housewives franchise, “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” next month.Even though it need not be said, it bears repeating: The preseason means nothing. It reveals nothing. And it is a predictor of absolutely nothing.With the fourth and final preseason game just days away, NFL teams were forced to reduce their rosters to 75 men yesterday.
From Radhika Bhattacharya of Boston:
What is your position on paid sick days in Massachusetts?
Of course forcing people to come to work when they’re sick risks passing on colds and flew and more. That’s not good for public health, not good for workers, employers or the businesses bottom line. Family values and worker rights and just plain common decency call for letting people stay home when they’re sick of when their family members need help. Let’s support our families and workers and make sure they have a basic sick day coverage.
If the business wants to do it. I would not require businesses to offer it. If they choose to offer it and many do that’s fine but I would not require or dictate that that has to be the case because it’s already expensive enough to hire individuals if we start dictating what those rules will be for those private individuals and private companies we’ll never get our unemployment down.
Sick days in Massachusetts and in state government are completely out of control. I think it should work how it works in the private sector. In the private sector almost every organization I know of people are allocated a certain number of days up to a limit and after that it’s capped. That is typically anywhere from 2-8 weeks depending on the organization and I think that’s a perfectly appropriate way to do it. I think the state’s policy on sick days is ridiculous.
Yes I do. There are methodologies that I think are fair and also defensible for businesses that are worried about proposals that are out there now. There is one proposal I have supported and I think it’s the right thing to do. Everything we do in policy and I believe in life has to be a balance.
Not how everyone is on their own and good luck and not be completely dominated and try to solve every problem in everyone’s life but I do think government has a role in helping people help themselves and as a part of that a plan where workers would earn paid sick time is one that I would support.
Metro’s gubernatorial series continues next week with a question on separation of powers.
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