by Bob Allen | Dec 30, 2005 | News
EthicsDaily.com paid and volunteer writers produced more than 750 articles in 2005. They included news and feature stories; movie, book and music reviews; opinion columns and editorials. Here’s our review of some of the major stories we followed: 1. Natural...
by Bob Allen | Dec 29, 2005 | News
British Baptist leaders asked churches to pray during the Christmas season for a kidnapped British hostage and three fellow captives being held in Iraq. Norman Kember, 74, a longtime member of Harrow Baptist Church in London, was with two Canadians and an American...
by Bob Allen | Dec 28, 2005 | News
Current and former Wal-Mart workers in California received an early Christmas present last Thursday when an Alameda County jury ordered the retailer to pay $172 million for denying lunch breaks as required by state law. About 116,000 past and present workers were...
by Bob Allen | Dec 23, 2005 | News
Wal-Mart supporters on Tuesday formed a steering committee of Working Families for Wal-Mart to talk about positive contributions of the retailer and counter criticism from Web sites like WakeUpWalMart.com and a popular documentary, “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of...
by Bob Allen | Dec 22, 2005 | News
Shoppers expressed mixed feelings about Wal-Mart, rating it a good place to shop but a poor place to work, in a new survey. A poll released last Thursday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found 81 percent of Americans surveyed said Wal-Mart is...