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GLENVILLE – Concerns about recent Facebook comments posted by a Town Board member were brought up by two Scotia Fire Department members at Wednesday’s board meeting. The comment, which has since been removed, was written by Board Member James Martin. Fire Lt. Adam Henery said comments made by Martin were critical of many of the aspects of the village Fire Department. “Of particular note was: ‘A fire department with employees who don’t even live in the community, yet demand high wages and benefits that the taxpayers bear, and they do not as they live in another town,” Henery read. “He followed that up with: ‘What is needed is men and women who provide such service with caring for those individuals who sacrifice to pay for its cost.’” Henery said he was “frustrated” as a Scotia firefighter and as a Glenville resident he was “discouraged” and “embarrassed” by the comment. “Public employment should be about hiring the best candidates for a position,” Henery said. “Somebody who brings the most value to a community,  » Read More

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, speaks at the Teamsters Local 249 hall during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2019.Justin Merriman | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden on Thursday is announcing the infusion of nearly $36 billion to shore up a financially troubled union pension plan, preventing severe cuts to the retirement incomes of more than 350,000 Teamster workers and retirees across the United States.The money for the Central States Pension Fund is the largest amount of federal aid provided for a pension plan, the Biden administration said, and comes from the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that he signed into law in 2021.Many union retirement plans have been under financial pressure because of underfunding and other issues. Without the federal assistance, Teamster members could have seen their benefits reduced by an average of 60% starting within a couple of years."Union workers and their families are finally able to breathe a huge sigh of relief,  » Read More

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Social media has become a tool many police departments across the Tri-State consider an asset used to quickly notify residents of criminal activity and to assist with investigations.Police in Delhi, Blue Ash, Covington, Cincinnati and 74 other agencies across our region have their own social media pages and will often post seeking help from the community.“We turn to Facebook, social media and we just seem like we get information to more people, more of the community than we do doing press releases or doing interviews (or) putting it on our website,” Middletown Police Chief David Birk said.While many departments use their own accounts to communicate with the communities they serve, there are 24 police departments in the Tri-State that do not have their own social media pages.Twelve of those departments will post via their city, township or village-run social media pages. The other half do not have their own page, have a page that’s been inactive for more than 2-years or don’t utilize social media for investigations or crime alerts.  » Read More

The U.S. Senate nearly found a way to pass a key bill to save local journalism. It paused after Facebook made a threat that Congress should see ...  » Read More

MENLO PARK -- Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. said Tuesday it will be "forced to consider" removing news content from its platform if Congress passes legislation requiring tech companies to pay news outlets for their material.The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, if passed, would allow news companies to collectively negotiate with social platforms over the terms on which their material appears on their sites. Meta said it would rather pull news from its platforms than "submit to government-mandated negotiations that unfairly disregard the value we provide to news outlets." The value, Meta said in a statement tweeted by spokesman Andy Stone, includes "increased traffic and subscriptions." Meta, which is based in Menlo Park, California, has taken similar stands in the past. Last year, it briefly blocked news from its platform in Australia after the country passed legislation that would compel tech companies to pay publishers for using their news stories. It later struck deals with Australian publishers. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota and the bill's sponsor, said the legislation simply allows news organizations to band together to negotiate better prices for their news content with "the biggest companies the world has ever known." "In one quarter Google made

Celebs, politicians, and other high-profile users get away with breaking Facebook's rules. Cross-check is getting cross-checked by the Oversight Board. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Oversight Board, an independent body set up to review Facebook and Instagram content decisions and policies, slammed the company on Tuesday over its cross-check program. In its statement, the Oversight Board laid out a number of changes Facebook's parent company Meta should make regarding content moderation across its social media platforms.Cross-check is an internal Facebook program that was portrayed as a "quality control" measure — a way to double check a content decision for potential moderation when it came to high-profile Facebook users. As Facebook reviews millions of pieces of content a day, the company is bound to make mistakes. The cross-check system was put in place to help limit faulty content takedowns from users deemed a priority to the company.However, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal,  » Read More

Facebook parent company Meta on Monday threatened to remove news from its social media platform in the US if Congress approves a bill that would allow news organizations to collectively bargain with tech companies for compensation.Andy Stone, Meta's head of policy communications, wrote on Twitter that Facebook would "be forced to consider removing news" if the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act becomes law. He added that the proposal fails to recognize that publishers and broadcasters put their content on Facebook "because it benefits their bottom line -- not the other way around." The bill, which was proposed in March 2021, is reportedly being considered by lawmakers for inclusion with a must-pass annual defense bill. The proposed legislation follows controversy in Australia in 2021 when Facebook briefly stripped news from its platform after the country passed a law requiring tech firms to pay for news content. The News Media Alliance, a trade group representing newspaper publishers that supports the bill, called Facebook's threat "undemocratic and unbecoming," adding that "as the tech platforms compensate news publishers around the world,  » Read More

Salesforce hits lowest level since April 2020Stocks finish lower to start the weekStocks finished lower Monday as fears mounted that the Federal Reserve will continue hiking rates.The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 482.78 points, or 1.4%, to finish at 33,947.10. The S&P 500 shed 1.79% to settle at 3,998.84, while the Nasdaq Composite tumbled 1.93% to close at 11,239.94.— Samantha SubinCostco should have a strong start to the 2023 fiscal year, UBS saysThough investor concerns are mounting over Costco's ability to match prior sales periods, UBS says the retailer is poised to perform well in the first quarter."Altogether, we think COST has every right to win this holiday season & beyond," said UBS analyst Michael Lasser in a note to clients.He said Costco has "solid growth prospects to support premium valuation" and sales should remain solid in the first quarter despite worries over sliding monthly sales. November sales data showed a continued sequential slowdown, with September's 8.6% growth followed October's 6.7% and November's 5.3%.  » Read More

Alden Williams/StuffDylan Stephens sent an explicit execution video to a woman after a discussion about vaccines. (File photo)After a Facebook discussion about vaccines, Dylan Stephens sent a woman a video featuring people being shot in the head. Stephens, 35, was sentenced on a charge of distributing objectionable material in Nelson District Court on Monday and he earlier pleaded guilty. In her sentencing, Judge Jo Rielly read the police summary of facts in court. Stephens and his victim were not known to each other, Rielly said. READ MORE: * Baby blood case: Parents accept that some blood products from vaccinated donors may have to be used * Nurse suspended, censured over sharing Covid-19 vaccine 'misinformation' * 'Misguided' Destiny Church pastor who organised lockdown protest dodges conviction In August 2021, the woman, who is involved in the New Zealand healthcare system, was taking part in a conversation on Facebook.  » Read More

This last summer, my partner’s car was stolen from right in front of our house. The next day it was found abandoned and towed to an impound lot.The attendant at the tow lot explained that our steering column had been smashed open so any key could start the car, and though there were signs of an attempt to remove it, including a hastily discarded scattering of tools in the backseat, the catalytic converter was still intact. So was the skull-shaped meth pipe they left in the center console.The tow driver posited that the thieves were likely in the process of removing the converter when the Portland Police Bureau or some other such entity rolled up on them. Considering the deserted meth skull they left behind, it seemed they evacuated our Subaru Forester in a right hurry.We ended up selling the car, but the question remained: Who the fuck is buying all these stolen catalytic converters and how do they keep getting away with it?Today, on the Dive podcast,  » Read More