If you’re looking for a store employee to help you out while shopping this holiday season, you’re not alone. Retailers themselves are having a lot of trouble finding the help they need. With unemployment rate so low, retailers are scrambling to find workers. They’re raising pay and benefits over what was offered in the past,…… MORE
Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire Democratic presidential candidate, said employees at his news organization “just have to learn to live with some things” when asked about their frustrations over the outlet’s 2020 election policy forbidding the investigation of Democratic presidential contenders. “They get a paycheck,” Bloomberg said during an interview that aired Friday with “CBS This…… MORE
McDonald’s New Zealand has launched its McVeggie burger, but there’s a catch that could leave meat-free patrons dismayed: It’s not strictly vegetarian. The McVeggie, served with cheese and garlic mayonnaise, includes a patty made of potato, corn, carrot and onion. So far, so good. However, a disclaimer from the fast food company on its website…… MORE
OPEC, Russia and other oil producing nations have agreed to deeper production cuts in an attempt to support crude prices in the face of a looming supply glut mainly due to booming US output. Following a meeting in Vienna, OPEC said Friday the producer group would reduce supplies by an additional 500,000 barrels per day,…… MORE
Beer is in a bear market. Domestic brews, such as Budweiser, Coors Light and Miller Light, once dominated the US beverage market. But sales are declining while alternatives are spiking. Drinkers think beer is stale, compared to the innovative new brands and creative concepts emerging from other places, so they are craving a variety of…… MORE
A handful of influential UK news outlets are showing their disgust with the state of politics by choosing not to endorse any political party ahead of a general election that could have profound implications for the country. Both the Financial Times and the New Statesman have declined to name a preferred candidate ahead of the…… MORE
Investors cheered the blockbuster November jobs report. The Dow rose nearly 350 points on Friday. US stocks surged as solid payroll and wage gains and an unemployment rate that remains at a half-century low eased fears that trade tensions are hurting the US economy — even as new American tariffs on China are set to…… MORE
Social media companies are feeling their way in the dark, and sometimes fumbling their way through new efforts to fight misinformation on their platforms as they roll out rules that are meant to increase transparency. These efforts include labeling state-funded and state-controlled media — news organizations that are wholly or in part managed or funded…… MORE
US employers added 266,000 jobs in November, up from 156,000 added in October, the Labor Department reported Friday. The gains include auto workers who returned to work after a six-week strike at General Motors. The US unemployment rate fell slightly to 3.5%. That matches a 50-year low also reached in September of this year. The…… MORE
Britain’s Channel 4 apologized Friday after mistakenly reporting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he wants to control the numbers of “people of colour” coming to the UK. Speaking at a campaign rally, Johnson said: “I’m in favour of having people of talent come to this country but I think we should have it democratically…… MORE
It was a wild night in the Tennessee Valley. Storms raged as teams tried to complete their Week 1 games. Join Cowboy and Coca-Cola Red Zone Sideline Reporter Jeff Cate as they discuss the wet and wild action of Week 1 High School Football.
Check out some of our favorite Superbowl commercials! Amazon, “Alexa Loses Her Voice” (BTW, you can listen to WGOW-FM on Alexa by saying, “Alexa, enable the Talk One Oh Two Point Three skill!” and to WGOW-AM by saying, “Alexa, enable the News W-G-O-W skill!”) NFL, “Touchdown Celebrations to Come” Budweiser, “Stand By You” Doritos, “DORITOS BLAZE…
On Monday, there was a proliferation of “pink sky” shots sent in by listeners. Followed by obligatory, condescending “explanation of phenomenon” by meteorologists. Best example I’ve ever seen…lasted 5 mins, or so at Henson’s Gap/Lewis Chapel Mtn., overlooking Dunlap, Tn. Launch ramp of “Tennessee TreeToppers” hanggliding club.
I boycotted the NFL for 2 years. And I had a good reason….not faux-outrage from the right nor the left. But I digress. I hear the calls for protests…for boycotts of the NFL over Colin Kaepernick’s not being signed by any NFL team as quarterback. They say it’s because of the former 49’ers QB’s…