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Flint, Michigan, Councilman Eric Mays recently berated a reporter from one of the local papers. Mays previously pleaded guilty to felonious assault and has been sentenced to jail and community service as part of other plea deals. Mayor Karen Weaver has instructed her staff not to talk to media, despite the numerous significant scandals Flint has faced, according to a councilwoman. A felon-turned-city councilman in Flint, Michigan, berated a young reporter in the council chambers, calling her “nasty” and repeatedly saying she was ignorant. “You’re a nasty woman. Maybe it’s a cultural difference,” Councilman Eric Mays said to reporter Zahra Ahmad , who is Muslim. “She ain’t from Flint.” Mays also threatened to call the police on Ahmad. Ahmad is one of the only print reporters to cover the impoverished city’s government, but Mayor Karen Weaver has prohibited her administration from speaking to journalists, according to one elected official. “The mayor has told her … [Read more...] about Flint Councilman Berates Muslim Reporter: ‘Nasty Woman. Maybe It’s A Cultural Difference’

Senior journalist Anant Rangaswami passed away on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (File photo) Anant Rangaswami, senior journalist and advertising industry professional, passed away on Tuesday morning. Condolences started pouring in from industry executives who remember him as a straightforward, inquisitive and a deep-thinking individual who contributed immensely towards the media and advertising fraternity. Rangaswami was well-recognised in the media and advertising fraternity. In his over two-decade-long career, he held roles at multiple media organizations and also worked with an advertising agency. He was most recently serving as the editor of Melt , an advertising and marketing magazine and portal. Advertising old-hand and chairman, RK SWAMY HANSA Group, Srinivasan K. Swamy, remembers Rangaswami as someone who would indulge in healthy and intellectual debates. “Anant is believed to be an argumentative person holding his own views on a variety of things. But my experience with … [Read more...] about Storyboard18 | Former Storyboard editor Anant Rangaswami passes away

- A + A KUALA LUMPUR (May 26): Former Sabah infrastructure development minister Datuk Peter Anthony has been found guilty of forging a letter in 2014 from the office of the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) deputy vice-chancellor for a system maintenance contract work. In delivering her judgement orally on Thursday (May 26), Sessions Court Judge Azura Alwi said that the defence had failed to raise reasonable doubt on the prosecution's case, while the prosecution had proven its case beyond any reasonable doubt. She added that although there was no direct evidence, there was circumstantial evidence to show that the former vice-president of Parti Warisan Sabah had indeed forged the said document for his benefit. "The court finds that although there is no direct evidence to suggest that you have falsified [the document] by [writing] the title, there are circumstantial evidence and testimonies [to show that] only you have the opportunity to falsify and these testimonies … [Read more...] about Peter Anthony found guilty of falsifying documents, sentenced to three years in jail

Flint, Michigan, said it will rescind a water-line repair contract offered to Goyette Mechanical, the the lowest bidder and the only firm that has completed previous work on time. The mayor instead wants to give the contract to politically-connected WT Stevens, which Goyette says is so far behind on its previous work that residents may be kept waiting for two years. Mayor Karen Weaver’s top advisor previously ordered work to be steered to WT Stevens, threatening “trouble” if his order was disobeyed. For the second time, the city of Flint, Michigan, is poised to reject the results of its contract bidding process after an experienced local firm provided the lowest offer. “This is unethical, it is bid rigging, and I certainly won’t be a part of this,” city Councilwoman Eva Worthing said during a Tuesday meeting. “Does council and the city want to deal with a lawsuit over unfair bidding practices by this city? This is favoritism, cronyism … This is basically a sham, it’s … [Read more...] about Flint To Rescind Lead Pipe Contract From Lowest Bidder And Award It To Politically-Connected Firm, Delaying Fixes

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin As the global semiconductor industry approaches mid-year, demand continues to exceed supply, spurring changes in the government role in the industry and in the way suppliers partner with customers, NXP Semiconductors CEO Kurt Sievers said in online presentation at Taiwan’s biggest annual technology fair on Tuesday. The industry in the past two years has been “pretty challenged,” said the leader of Eindhoven, Netherlands-headquartered NXP, one of the world’s largest chip suppliers, particularly to an auto industry facing transformation toward electric vehicles and away from traditional internal combustion engine technology. “Pretty much after the pandemic was hitting the world in the beginning of 2020, the demand for semiconductors saw an unprecedented growth — I would almost call it an explosion of demand,” Sievers said. The increase, he said, has been in part due to the acceleration of “edge” computing that moves … [Read more...] about Global Chip Supply-Demand Imbalance Is Spurring Industry Change: NXP CEO Kurt Sievers

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . S ome of the most iconic images from the war in Ukraine include pregnant women evacuating a maternity hospital bombed by Russian forces. The dispatches from Mariupol in March showed blatant violations of international human rights law that prohibit attacks on healthcare facilities and transport. The World Health Organization has confirmed 253 attacks on healthcare and 75 related deaths in Ukraine so far this year. But these attacks aren’t an isolated occurrence. In 2021, there were 1,335 incidents of violence or obstruction against health facilities and workers across 49 countries, according to the latest report from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition released this week. This included the damage or destruction of three-quarters of the healthcare facilities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where this an … [Read more...] about InnovationRx: Wartime Attacks On Healthcare: Plus, 1 In 5 May Develop Long Covid

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin A heavily redacted Command Investigation into the “apparent striking of a submerged object by USS Connecticut ,” one of America’s three Seawolf Class submarines, paints a grim picture for the U.S. Navy. The investigation, completed 7 months ago and only released this week, portrays a Navy in real crisis. It is unclear what—if anything—the Navy has done to date that fundamentally addresses what appears to be a disastrous breakdown in submariner standards, basic discipline, and operational competence. It portrays a Navy unready for conflict, rife with major, long-standing navigational oversights in key, contested operational areas. Certainly, the Navy handled the ceremonial, unit-level discipline well. It fired the command trio of the submarine days after the investigation closed and instituted a rolling, force-wide “ navigation stand down ” two weeks later. But that is not enough. With the nation … [Read more...] about Navy Releases Grim USS Connecticut (SSN 22) Investigation; DoD Must Demand Accountability