*Pet Opioid Prescriptions Have Soared, Penn Study Finds:
A new study by Penn Medicine and Penn Vet has uncovered a 41 percent increase in opioids prescribed for pets over a 10-year period, but only a 13 percent bump in the number of pet hospital visits. The prescription spike could have been driven by the complex care offered at a veterinary hospital like Penn’s, as well as the desire to spare beloved pets from pain, according to the study authors.
On the other hand, it might also mean all those prescriptions didn’t go to Fido and Fluffy.
*Democrat House Votes In Favor Of Illegal Immigrant Voting, Report Says:
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted on Friday to defend local governments that choose to allow illegal aliens to vote in their elections. “The vote marks a stunning reversal from just six months ago, when the chamber — then under GOP control — voted to decry illegal immigrant voting,” The Washington Times reported. “The 228-197 vote came as part of a broader debate on Democrats’ major legislative priority this year, HR 1, the ‘For the People Act,’ which includes historic expansions of voter registration and access, as well as a major rewrite of campaign finance laws.”
“It sounds like I’m making it up,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) said. “What kind of government would cancel the vote of its own citizens, and replace it with noncitizens?” “Today I offered a motion to recommit #HR1 reaffirming that only US citizensshould have the right to vote,” Crenshaw added on Twitter. “Dems rejected it. Next time you go to the ballot box, keep that in mind. The future of their party is in cities like San Fran, where illegals can vote. Let that sink in.”
*’Captain Marvel’ TANKS On Rotten Tomatoes Hours After Premiere:
“Captain Marvel” was hit with tens of thousands of audience reviews just hours after the film opened in theaters on Friday, scoring a dismal audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes of 33%. “As of 8 a.m., the film had a 33 percent audience score from more than 58,000 reviews,” reported The Hollywood Reporter. The outlet credited the low audience rating to “trolls” sandbagging the film, noting that the number of reviews in a matter of mere hours from “Captain Marvel’s” opening is “more than the total of audience score reviews for Avengers: Infinity War for its entire theatrical run.”
On mid-day Friday, the audience score peaked to 35%; the critics’ score, however, held at a solid 81%..
*Michael Avenatti Law Firm Files for Bankruptcy—Again:
Michael Avenatti’s law firm, Eagan Avenatti, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday. It’s the second time in two years that the firm has sought court protection from its creditors. Avenatti told the Los Angeles Times he has moved on to a new firm. “Who cares? Old firm that we have not operated under for a very long time,” Avenatti said in a statement. “We want to ensure the proper distribution of assets to creditors—it means nothing to our current law practice. Onward and upward.”
Avenatti now identifies his practice as Avenatti & Associates, whose lawyers and office staff are largely the same people who worked at Eagan Avenatti. Avenatti & Associates owns Eagan Avenatti, according to court filings. The bankruptcy filing came on the eve of Avenatti’s scheduled testimony on Eagan Avenatti’s finances, and three weeks after Jason Frank, a former lawyer at the firm, filed court papers accusing Avenatti of hiding millions of dollars from the court.
*Majority of Likely Voters Agree with Trump: ‘We Have People in Congress that Hate Our Country’:
A majority of Americans agree with President Donald Trumpthat some members of Congress “hate our country,” a new Rasmussen Reports survey of likely voters shows.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference(CPAC) last Saturday, March 2, Trump said: “We have people in Congress, right now, we have people in Congress that hate our country.” “And, you know that, and we can name every one of them, they want. They hate our country. Sad. Very sad. When I see some of the statements they made. Very, very sad.”
In its national survey of 1,000 likely voters, conducted March 5-6, Rasmussen asked: “Do you agree or disagree with the following statement – ‘We have people in Congress, right now we have people in Congress, that hate our country’?” While slightly more than half of likely voters agreed with the statement, only about a third disagreed that some members of Congress hate America: Agree: 51% Disagree: 34% Undecided: 14%
*Whole Foods Adopts $15 Minimum Wage, Then Starts Slashing Workers’ Hours ‘Significantly’:
The dream of the $15 minimum wage was finally realized among Amazon employees after the company caved to mounting pressure and implemented it company-wide on Nov. 1. But according to a new report, the improved wages aren’t working out as many employees had hoped at Amazon’s Whole Foods grocery store chain. The Guardian reported Wednesday that employees at Whole Foods, which Amazon purchased back in 2017, have experienced a dramatic drop in schedule shifts since the raised wages were introduced.
Along with the new $15 minimum wage for the entry-level positions, some higher-level Whole Foods employees have also enjoyed a $1 to $2 increase in hourly wages, the outlet notes. It all sounds good — until employees’ schedules are taken into account. Since the wage increase in November, Whole Foods employees say they’ve experienced “widespread cuts that have reduced schedule shifts across many stores, often negating wage gains for employees,” The Guardian reports. The employees, speaking on condition of anonymity “for fear of retaliation,” revealed to the outlet that they’ve seen an average of about a 30% reduction in hours per week for part-timers and about a 10% reduction for full-timers.
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