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Liam Denning: Striking UAW can’t bring back the 1950s or wish EVs away

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:52:51 GMT

Last Thursday at midnight, Detroit’s strike clock transitioned from countdown to stopwatch. The United Auto Workers’ strike will ultimately end, as all do. Larger forces behind it, however, will grind on through this decade, presenting an existential challenge to the union.There’s a short-term element to the UAW’s dispute with Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co. and Stellantis NV that is both justified and relatively easy to resolve. The last contract was sideswiped by the post-pandemic burst of inflation, which also happened to boost the automakers’ North American profits, and workers want higher wages to compensate.The backdrop, however, is the biggest disruption to the U.S., and global, vehicle market in a generation. First, Detroit is in the process of turning over to electric vehicles. Second, globalization is in retreat, battered by economic populism and geopolitical tensions. President Joe Biden’s climate-related policy, embedded largely in ...

Latest accomplishment has only made former Gophers hockey star Taylor Heise hungrier

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:52:51 GMT

Monday was a long, whirlwind day for Taylor Heise. At about 1:30 p.m. ET, she was selected by her hometown team with the first overall pick in the inaugural Professional Women’s Hockey League draft in Toronto.Before the draft was even completed, she was in a car headed for the airport and by 7, she was on a plane headed back to Minnesota.Asked if she took the day off on Tuesday, the former Gophers center said she was on the ice at Ridder Arena by 10 a.m.“It’s what I love to do,” she said. “If I want to kick (butt) for the pro team in my home state, I’ve got to get to it.”The 24-game PWHL season is scheduled to start sometime in early January, and training camp doesn’t start until Nov. 13. But Heise has plenty to do in the meantime, from working out with Gophers trainer Cal Dietz at her alma mater to skating with the U.S. program at the Super Rink in Blaine.The alacrity with which Heise prepares is surely part of the reason she was chosen first overall by Minnesota general manager Na...

Man who punched and bit St. Paul police officer during arrest given probation

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:52:51 GMT

A Virginia man will not serve additional jail time for a violent assault on a St. Paul police officer in 2021.Cuyler Mason Howard, 22, had pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in connection with attacking and repeatedly punching officer Michael Ganzel during an arrest in the city’s Summit Hill neighborhood.Ramsey County District Judge Kelly Olmstead on Monday followed a plea agreement that Howard reached with the prosecution in June, staying an 86-day jail sentence for one year and dismissing two felony charges — fourth-degree assault of a peace officer and attempting to disarm a peace officer. Howard had served four days in jail after his arrest.Bruises are seen on the face of St. Paul Police Officer Michael Ganzel after an alleged attack by a man he was trying to arrest Sept. 24, 2021. (Courtesy of the St. Paul Police Department)Ganzel, who was in the courtroom with his wife and her father, experiences headaches, vision issues, ringing in his ears and PTSD as a result of th...

Public urged to watch for guns stolen from Potosi store

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:52:51 GMT

POTOSI, Mo. - Federal and local authorities are asking the public to look out for several guns stolen from a Potosi store.Police say at least 13 firearms were stolen from the Dickey Bub Farm & Home store in Potosi between Sept. 19-20, 2021. Nearly two years later, only one of those firearms has been recovered. New York company moving headquarters to St. Louis Prosecutors have charged Gregory Snyder, 44, of Bismarck, Missouri, with theft of multiple weapons and possessing body armor after previous felonies. An indictment accuses Snyder of hiding in a store until closing time, then suddenly taking off with a variety of shotguns and rifles. The encounter was reportedly captured on surveillance video. Last June, police learned that one stolen firearm had been sold at a pawn shop in Caledonia, Missouri. Authorities also recovered one from a traffic stop in St. Louis County. The incidents led to the arrest of Snyder in July. Close Thanks for signing up! W...

Bear captured in Sierra Madre

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:52:51 GMT

A bear was captured in a Sierra Madre neighborhood Tuesday afternoon. Due to a recent increase in bear activity in the area, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife had been frequently calling the Sierra Madre Police Department to check on them and authorities happened to get a report of a bear sighting in a front yard, CDFW spokesman Tim Daly said. The bear was spotted and darted and was able to run into a different yard before falling asleep.Officials were then able to put the young adult female bear in a cage in the back of a trailer. Crews are taking the bear to the “nearest suitable habitat” in the Angeles National Forest, Daly said.The bear is not currently tagged, but she will get an ear tag and collar.She is one of at least three bears that are believed to be active in the area.One of the residents who saw the bear Tuesday thinks she had tried to get into a house, but it is unclear she if is the one garnering recent media attention, Daly said.CDFW was assisted at Tues...

Dumb Money is a Smart Take on the Gamestop Scandal

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:52:51 GMT

GameStop lives, and is probably open late at a location near you. The fate of the often troubled videogame retailer is at the core of Dumb Money, a fast-paced and funny movie about the 2021 amateur stock trading craze on which the retail chain’s fortunes rose, fell, and then rose again. And if the filmmakers neglect to cap their tale with news of the store’s unexpected survival (the chain just posted a quarterly profit), well, the GameStop saga was never really about the store, was it?Keith Gill (Paul Dano), a 32-year-old Massachusetts financial broker must have been a loyal customer because in the fall of 2019, he began singing the praises of GameStop in online videos recorded in his basement. To the astonishment of the few people paying attention to his initial posts, Gill reported buying 53 grand in stock, an idea that struck most as laughable. Everyone knew the hedge fund guys (“smart money”) were going to cash out big when GameStop crashed and burned. That’s how the world works...

San Francisco homicides: Shootings in Tenderloin and Twin Peaks neighborhoods

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:52:51 GMT

Two people were fatally shot over the weekend in San Francisco, police said.The first was shot around 9 p.m. Saturday near Jones and McAllister streets, in the Tenderloin neighborhood. Another shooting victim found at the location was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive, police said. The second homicide victim, a 19-year-old man, was shot around 2 a.m. Sunday on the 500 block of Twin Peaks Boulevard. Police did not release the identity of either victim, and gave no information on suspects.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Suspect in killing of LA County deputy battled mental illness, hallucinations, family says Crime and Public Safety | Oakland: Suspect in 2020 stabbing gets 11 years for 9th felony conviction since 1999 Crime and Public Safety | ‘Person of interest’ detained in ambush-style slaying of LA County sheriff’s deputy Crime and Public Safety | How an illegal jailhouse snitch operation backfired...

GOP struggles to find consensus on averting shutdown

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:52:51 GMT

By Melanie Zanona, Lauren Fox, Annie Grayer and Haley Talbot | CNNHouse Republicans are still struggling to reach consensus on a plan to fund the government, with lawmakers going back-and-forth over the issue and leadership forced to delay a planned procedural vote as they work to find agreement within their ranks.GOP leaders are planning to plow ahead with a vote on their proposal this week, even as some conservative hardliners are still digging in and threatening to oppose a procedural vote, which would prevent the bill from coming to the floor. GOP lawmakers stood up during a closed-door conference meeting Tuesday morning to make their case for – or against – the plan, which would temporarily fund the government and beef up border security but is dead-on-arrival in the Democratic-controlled Senate.House GOP leaders canceled a procedural rule vote on the proposal originally slated for Tuesday morning amid that opposition from hardliners. It’s unclear when or if that vote will get ...

The San Jose Sharks have issues. Here are 5 they hope to resolve during training camp

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:52:51 GMT

The San Jose Sharks’ task of trying to replace three-time Norris Trophy winner Erik Karlsson is a little bit like a bleary-eyed parent trying to assemble their child’s intricate new toy on a hectic Christmas morning.Where does one even begin?Karlsson, traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins last month, did just about everything for the Sharks last season as he became the first defenseman in 31 years to score 100 points in a season.As the Sharks stumbled to a 22-44-16 record, Karlsson had a season for the ages as he led the team in assists, overall ice time, power-play points, and power-play ice time. He fueled breakouts, held his own on defense, played all 82 games, and provided underappreciated leadership.Finding ways to make up for Karlsson’s absence will be job No. 1 for the Sharks this month as they get ready to begin their first training camp in five years without No. 65.“You’re losing a Norris Trophy-winning defenseman and a guy that’s got elite offensive ability,” Shark...

Oakland's ex-police chief controversy: 'It's a mess,' legal analyst says

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:52:51 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) -- Oakland's ex-police chief, LeRonne Armstrong, was exonerated by a hearing officer who reviewed circumstances surrounding his termination and sided with the former top cop. The hearing officer, judge Maria Rivera, concluded that the city and Armstrong should meet to discuss ways to resolve the dispute, "including the possibility of reinstatement" as chief. Judge Rivera's full 55-page report was obtained and reviewed by KRON4 on Tuesday morning. Armstrong was fired without cause by Mayor Sheng Thao in February. The former top cop said he never violated any Oakland Police Department policies, deserves his job back, and proclaimed Rivera's report as "vindication."Legal analyst Paula Canny told KRON4 that Rivera's report shows Oakland city officials and Armstrong need to work things out. "It's just a mess of a situation. What she is signaling to the parties is, you ought to settle this. Sit down, and talk it out, and figure out, what is the solution?"LeRonne Ar...