At a time when the city’s economy and business community are reeling, City Hall is slashing the staff at theh agency charged with attracting jobs and investment here.
Officials at World Business Chicago are confirming that, due to a drop in revenue, they have eliminated nine of the agency’s staff 39 positions. Five staffers were released on Aug. 1, and four vacant positions will not be filled.
Combined with pay cuts in the top ranks, WBC will save about $500,000 out a budget that last year totaled $8.8 million, according to CEO Andrea Zopp. Mayor Lori Lightfoot is chairman of the public/private partnership.
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Amtrak report says effort to transform their section of Moynihan Train Hall delayed and over
A report from Amtrak claims they have not held up their end of the bargain renovating the Farley Building – soon to be the Moynihan Train Hall – and the project is fraught with cost overruns and delays.
The situation is so far gone, the company’s Office of Inspector General does not have faith that the project will meet Governor Andrew Cuomo’s December 2020 completion deadline – a central facet in his 2020 state of the state address .
The $1.6 billion project included $106 million from Amtrak and allowed them to design their own space in Moynihan, designed to be a pressure release valve to the well over capacity Penn Station. The largest transit hub in the nation, Penn sees about 650,000 travelers on a daily basis on the subways, Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit and the Amtrak. Each has their own stake, but Amtrak may be the only one with delays.
Snohomish County needs to slash budget again, Somers warns | HeraldNet.com
IT Departments COVID-19 Boost Won't Crowd Out Legal Tech Funding | Legaltech News
The COVID-19 pandemic has equipped corporate attorneys with a brand new set of skills and experiences but has also fundamentally changed what legal departments may be looking for from a new hire. In order to stand out from a stack of resumes, attorneys may have to redefine their value as a leader and corporate asset.
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Elevate released its new Ecosystem Legal Management software earlier this week as more providers attempt to help corporate legal teams bridge the multitude of applications at work in their departments.
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Redirect military budgets to tackle climate change and pandemics
Despite threats to human existence from climate change, biodiversity loss and a pandemic that's devastating economies and paralysing societies, countries still spend recklessly on destructive weapons for wars they will never fight.
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Big armies haven't helped countries to fight COVID-19 — precisely the opposite. The five countries with the largest defence budgets were unprepared and were hit hard. The United States, China, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia together accounted for almost two-thirds (62%) of global military expenditure in 2019, and US, Indian and Russian rates of infection are some of the highest so far, with the United States topping both lists.
MGM Remakes Orion Pictures to Tell More Inclusive Stories - The New York Times
On Thursday, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the 96-year-old home of James Bond, Rocky and RoboCop, took a modest yet meaningful step toward correcting the imbalance, hiring a young producer, Alana Mayo, to remake its Orion Pictures division to focus exclusively on underrepresented filmmakers and stories. Ms.
"As a person who is a woman and Black and queer, I want to create something that will hopefully make other people like me feel like they are finally a part of the Hollywood system," Ms. Mayo said in a phone interview.
Business lessons from a small virus on a big planet | Greenbiz
The power of this microscopic being is astonishing: The mass of all the coronaviruses combined on our planet may just be a small fraction of a gram — less than a butterfly wing. Yet, it has changed everything, far beyond the classical "butterfly effect."
One measurable impact of the pandemic is the temporary reduction in human demand on nature. Ecological footprint accounting quantifies this demand by adding up all the human demands that compete for biologically productive area: to produce food, fiber, timber; to absorb excess CO 2 from fossil fuel burning; to accommodate roads and houses, etc.
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With a 10-month-old baby to think about, my husband and I have kept trips to the store to a minimum out of an abundance of caution during the pandemic. We're fortunate to have just about every grocery delivery service at our disposal — and we've taken advantage.
In between orders from Costco, Whole Foods, Imperfect Foods and more, I've noticed our virtual shopping habit is changing how we budget . We're accounting for new grocery-related expenses. We're also more deliberate about what we buy.
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