Noncompete agreements, which restrict who employees can work for after leaving a company, have become well-established in Pittsburgh. Some local hairstylists, for example, who are unhappy with […]
Tag: business
Winning GOP strategy in 2024: Back to business with immigration reform
by Neil Hare The recent GOP attacks on the business community, including its leading advocacy group the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, arguably contributed to a poor showing […]
Bear Wood Co. allows structures to live on anew
Progress often comes at a cost. When old structures are pulled or burned down to make way for new, valuable pieces of history can be lost forever. […]
Business the most trusted institution?
by Nicholas Goldberg You’d think that people would have learned their lesson after years of financial industry gimmickry, corporate tax avoidance and mistreatment of workers. You’d think […]
Being laid off is devastating. Yet society never measures that toll
by Les Leopold More than 150,000 tech workers lost their jobs in 2022, according to one estimate, and an additional 23,000 have been laid off since the […]
Cutting supply chain carbon emissions
by Michael P. Vandenbergh and Jonathan M. Gilligan The Inflation Reduction Act is both the most important federal climate legislation ever and sadly inadequate to protect the […]
Morgantown Area Partnership announces two new hires
The Morgantown Area Partnership recently hired two new staff members: Jacob Coots and Matt Porter. Coots is the new Membership and Public Affairs manager for the Partnership. […]
Rambling Van Vintage makes sustainability stylish
Sustainable fashion, a smart business plan and a Preston County based business — these are some of my favorite things, so when I saw the Rambling Van […]
Big Tech’s reckoning won’t stop with Uber
by Parmy Olson Life for big tech companies looks increasingly different to how it did five years ago. Back then, Uber Technologies Inc. used a secret “kill […]
Time to break Big Tech’s stranglehold
Yesterday, we covered the Open App Markets Act — a bill in Congress that targets the anticompetitive practices in app stores. Today, we’ll cover its companion bill, […]
