Ryan Farrick is a freelance writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he’s an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.
An Oklahoma-based drug rehabilitation program called Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery has been accused of stealing its participants workers’ compensation claims. A former participant in the program, Fred Barbee, had his story published early in the week. Barbee was sent by a ‘drug court judge’ in Tulsa, OK, to a rehabilitation program – Christian
Home improvement chain Menards is facing three separate class action lawsuits, all of which accuse the retailer of stealing its employees’ wages. The first complaint was filed in federal court by a disgruntled low-level employee, Maurice Bradley. The Indiana man alleges that Menards used a strange “compensation scheme” to ensure its employees were only being
The Prime Minister of Turkey is allegedly “saddened” by the United States’ decision to temporarily suspend its embassy’s non-immigrant visa services. Since the decision, Turkey has responded in kind by placing similar restrictions on visas being applied for by Americans. “For the ambassador in Ankara to take a decision like this, to put it into
A group of people who attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival have banded together to sue a manufacturer of firearm ‘bump stocks’. The perpetrator of the October 1st mass shooting in Las Vegas, Stephen Paddock, had amassed a considerable arsenal of weapons in his Mandalay Hotel suite. Several of Paddock’s semi-automatic rifles were equipped with
The City of San Diego agreed to pay $500,000 to trash truck drivers who say they were illegally denied pay while taking lunchbreaks. The class action suit was filed in 2014, after disgruntled drivers filed a complaint over what was then a standard practice – deducting a half hour’s pay from each shift. The 30-minute
One day after her father unveiled an unrealistically harsh list of immigration requirements, Ivanka Trump called the plight of Dreamers “a very complicated issue that needs a long-term congressional fix.” Ivanka Trump’s comments marked her first foray into the debate over the future of those young men and women who were participants in the Deferred
“The war on coal is over.” The announcement was made Monday by the Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Speaking from Kentucky, Pruitt said the agency was working to roll back Obama-era regulations on carbon emissions from power plants. Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan was finalized in 2015, with its intent being
On Sunday, President Donald Trump outlined his plans and demands for any legislation which might address the future of DACA’s former beneficiaries. The hardline policies on immigration may well complicate a deal Democrats had thought they’d made with the commander-in-chief on securing the future of the so-called ‘Dreamers’ in the United States – young men
The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to drop an upcoming case concerning President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban. The request was submitted Thursday, meeting fierce opposition from several states as well as immigration advocacy groups. Opponents of the travel ban asked the Supreme Court to reschedule the case, or at least uphold the
On Thursday, the governor of California signed a “sanctuary state” bill that would place limits on how local law enforcement agencies can cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The legislation was passed last by the Californian congress last month. Governor Jerry Brown played a pivotal role in negotiating the conditions underlying it. Brown’s signing of the