Costco Joins Retailers Saying They Won’t Sell GMO Salmon
Seattle — Costco has joined the list of retailers who say they will not sell genetically modified salmon after the Food and Drug Administration approved on Thursday the sale of such fish. “Although the FDA has approved the sale of GM salmon, Costco has not sold and does not intend to sell GM salmon at this time,” the warehouse store chain based outside Seattle said in a statement Friday. The FDA cleared for sale AquAdvantage Salmon,...
John Deere Appeals Inclusion In Auto Dealer Protection Law
Concord— John Deere and other farm and heavy equipment manufacturers told the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday that a new state law looping them into protections designed for automobile and truck dealers unconstitutionally interferes with their existing and future contracts with dealers. Lawyers for John Deere and the state faced off over the so-called Auto Dealers Bill of Rights law, which lawmakers expanded to encompass...
Creating Community Through Creativity
When I was asked to write a piece on “the creative economy” here in the Upper Valley, I thought of how people living and working locally can sell their goods and services locally as a way to invigorate our local economic engine. Upon further reflection, it became apparent to me that the notion of a creative economy should be, almost by definition, a way to create a new economy, or economies, by being creative with the local talents...
How London Man May Have Helped Trigger ‘Flash Crash’
New York — He operated from a modest suburban London home he shared with his parents, far from the city’s glamorous financial center. He used off-the-shelf software anyone can buy. Yet, if U.S. authorities are correct, Navinder Singh Sarao, 36, managed to send a jolt of fear through the world’s markets by helping to set off the 2010 “flash crash,” in which the Dow Jones average plunged 600 points in less than seven minutes. Just how...
