The OFT Food Safety & Injury firm has been retained in this widespread and ongoing outbreak of Salmonella Newport tied to red onions from Thomson International, Inc.Just thought you should know.
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My New Firm is All Over This Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak
As regular Reader(s)™ of this erstwhile blog may know, I have joined a new law firm—OFT Food Safety & Injury Lawyers—with Ryan Osterholm, Brendan Flaherty, and Lindsay Lien Rinholen.One of the many things I’m excited about in this new venture is that it will give me occasion to visit Minneapolis…
A return? Maybe.
A friend of mine, who clearly has an outsized influence on me, suggested that I should start writing on the Gillette-Torvik blog again. I should do lots of things, of course. I do not do a lot of things I should do. Anyway, I guess my tweets were not particularly satisfying reading. I can understand…
No, Arizona will not owe Sean Miller $10 million if they fire him with cause
Word broke yesterday that Sean Miller is on tape talking about paying DeAndre Ayton to come to Arizona.Today, there are reports that Arizona will owe Miller the balance of his base salary even if they fire him “with cause,” but only 50% of that if they fire him without cause. Can that possibly be correct?Spoiler…
A Little Light
I am thankful for these things (part 2)
Given that this post should appear directly above part 1 of this series, I am just going to jump into the second half of list.
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I am thankful for these things (part 1)
In July, writer Joe Posnanski wrote a blog post about 50 things that make him happy. The concept of the post was to list 50 “non-cynical” things that, obviously, make Mr. Posnanski happy. I enjoyed reading the post a lot. Since imitation is the greatest form of flattery, here is my list of 50…
Earth 1 and Earth 2.
So the New York Times published a story about how movie executive Harvey Weinstein has allegedly been sexually harassing women for many years. I could link to a number of other news reports about other powerful men allegedly doing similar things. Without resorting to Google, Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes lost their positions at Fox…
Don't buy the myth
As is my custom, I did not look at the news Monday morning before I walked to work. So I was in a good mood when I passed the security guard in lobby of the building where I work. My mood got even better when I noticed the guard had set out sugar cookies with…
Things I learned on my recent trip to North Dakota.
I was in Bismarck, North Dakota, for a couple of days this week. Bismarck, as Reader(s)™ may know, is the capitol of North Dakota. One thinks of North Dakota as being flat and treeless, but Bismarck has more hills than Minneapolis and a lot of trees. Here is a picture I took from a hill…