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NOTEBOOK: Jury trial in Wellmark discrimination lawsuit set for March — 2023

Plaintiffs in a racial discrimination lawsuit filed in May 2020 against Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield will have to wait two more years for a jury trial in that case to begin.

The case, …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Leadership during the new normal: Inspiring others

President John F. Kennedy, while visiting NASA in the 1960s, reportedly asked a janitor at the facility: “What do you do here?” The employee replied: “I’m helping to put a man on the moon.” Every …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: A look at how COVID spread through the U.S.

William Frey, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, has studied data showing COVID-19’s spread through the U.S. during the past 12 months. The analysis includes several maps depicting a month-by-month look at COVID’s …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Changes in consumer buying habits creating chaos for worldwide shipping

There’s a growing crisis in the shipping industry as we’ve changed the way we shop and because of the things we’re buying as people have been stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. This New York …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Dr. Seuss books are pulled, and a ‘cancel culture’ controversy erupts

The estate of Theodor Geisel – more commonly known as Dr. Seuss – made a decision to discontinue sales of six of his books this week because of racist depictions in them, the New York Times reports. …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Toymaker’s ‘My Home Office’ lands ‘somewhere between dark satire and meme’

One of my favorite business article bookmarks is Marker, a site that bills itself as “pop business for the intelligent reader.” Today on Marker the top story happened to be contributor Rob Walker’s Object of the …

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NOTEBOOK: Career journalist pivots to become co-owner of Sylvan Learning centers

Becoming a small business owner was a long-held goal for April Samp, and in the past year that dream became a reality for her, despite the pandemic.

 

Samp, who had worked in broadcast journalism …

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NOTEBOOK: ONE GOOD READ: Demolition of former Sears department store begins

Work has begun on tearing down the former Sears department store building at Merle Hay Mall. The building was among the first constructed on the mall site in the late 1950s. The store closed in …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Broken windows, ‘cuddling breaks’ and interrupted video calls: Parents share realities of juggling work while home-schooling kids

There are lots of pandemic experiences I will always remember, but there are some experiences that I, a non-parent, will never truly understand — such as having a nearly naked toddler show up yelling in …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Go ahead and fail

Perfectionism can make you miserable, Arthur C. Brooks writes in the Atlantic, so you have to muster up the courage to mess up. Brooks writes about it in the context of being a classical musician and …