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To enforce President Joe Biden’s forthcoming COVID-19 mandate, the U.S. Labor Department is going to need a lot of help. Its Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn’t have nearly enough workplace safety inspectors to do the job. So the government will rely upon a corps of informers to identify violations of the order: Employees who will presumably be concerned enough to turn in their own employers if their co-workers go unvaccinated or fail to undergo weekly tests to show they’re virus-free. What's not known is just how many employees will be willing to accept some risk to themselves — or...

An effort to streamline state contracting and perhaps save taxpayers money has backfired, leaving a legal dispute – and a big unpaid bill. A New Mexico consulting firm was hired to help California state managers improve the terms under which they buy goods and sign contracts. But the consulting contract has been axed and the Department of General Services is refusing to pay the firm's $225,731 bill. Calling the cancellation of its contract "arbitrary and capricious," Santa Fe-based consulting firm Burger, Carroll & Associates Inc. is fighting back: It has filed a civil lawsuit against the Department of General Services,...

Mugabe's raids leave townships in tatters By David Blair, Africa Correspondent (Filed: 03/06/2005) Desperate people picked through the wreckage of their homes yesterday after Zimbabwe's police raided Harare's townships, destroying "illegal shelters" and leaving 10,000 homeless. Riot police conducting "Operation Drive Out the Rubbish" were accused of bringing misery to the urban poor, the latest target of President Robert Mugabe's campaign of terror. Children wait with their belongings after their home was destroyed In one township Irish missionaries were forced to dismantle a clinic and a creche for children orphaned by the Aids epidemic. Police demolished shacks inhabited by impoverished...