$1,000 Bonus For Every Year Of Work: Casino Employees Shocked At Company’s 50th Anniversary
by Andy Corbley, Good News Network
When thousands of employees at Station Casinos arrived at one of the company’s resorts to celebrate its 50th anniversary, they hadn’t a clue what was about to happen. They were going to hit the jackpot. In a stunning display of profit sharing, business moguls the Fertitta brothers announced that each of Station Casinos’ 10,000 employees were to receive a bonus consisting of $1,000 of company stock for ever year they’ve been on the payroll, totaling $70 million in gifts.
City-Backed Nonprofit Grocery Stores Have Come To Newark
by Michael Sol Warren, Gothamist
Inside a small mural-covered building on New Street in Newark’s Central Ward, a carton of a dozen eggs is on sale for $1.69. The building houses one of five community grocery stores now open in Newark — one serving each of the city’s wards — offering food and essential goods at 25% to 30% above wholesale costs. Those same eggs would cost on average elsewhere more than $2 for the dozen, according to data from the Federal Reserve. It’s a modest savings on its own. But apply that discount to an entire grocery list, and the savings grow.
Solar Panel Costs Have Plummeted From $6 Per Watt In 2000 To Just 12 Cents Today
by Skye Jacobs, TECHSPOT
Cheap solar panels are reshaping the way electricity systems operate from Pakistan to Australia. Businesses and households are generating more of their own power, reducing daytime grid purchases while still relying on utilities to maintain networks and supply electricity when solar output falls. The shift is making demand harder to forecast and prompting grid operators to invest in better system visibility, storage, and new pricing models. At Bestway Cement’s plant in Chakwal, Pakistan, solar already supplies more than a quarter of the electricity used to make cement.
Christian Bale Opens Long-Dreamed Of Foster Care Village Aimed At Keeping Siblings Together
by Andy Corbley, Good News Network
The personal passion project of Hollywood A-lister Christian Bale has finally come to fruition, as the Welsh actor cut the ribbon on a children’s foster care village in Palmdale, California. Called Together California, the facility and the organization which will run it are focused on one key mission Mr. Bale says the state foster system falls short on: keeping siblings together. “Imagine the absolute pain and the trauma of losing your parents or being torn from your parents, and then losing your brothers and sisters on top of that. That’s no way to treat kids.
Starting September 1, Texans Have The Right To Repair Their Electronics
by Luke Metzger, Environment Texas
Texans will have a new legal right: the right to fix many of the products that they own. HB 2963, the Texas Right to Repair Act, which will take effect September 1, requires manufacturers of covered electronics to allow consumers and independent repair shops to access the same parts, tools and repair manuals that company-authorized shops already get. Texas will become the ninth state in the nation to guarantee people the right to repair their consumer electronics.
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