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State Legalization of Marijuana: Impact on Transportation and Warehousing?

Talking Logistics

As reported last week by Material Handling and Logistics , the transportation and warehousing sector experienced the largest overall drug positivity increase of any sector between 2015-2017 (21.4%, based on data from the Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index), with marijuana being the most commonly detected substance (33.3%

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Columbus Day 2020: A Holiday in Search of a Name

Enterra Insights

… A 2015 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that Columbus Day was the most inconsistently-observed US holiday.”[3] For example, the District of Columbia (ironically named after Columbus) changed the name of the Federal Holiday to Indigenous Peoples’ Day.[4]

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Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019

Enterra Insights

”[1] This controversy has resulted in some states and the District of Columbia (ironically named after Columbus) to change the name of the Federal Holiday. A 2015 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that Columbus Day was the most inconsistently-observed US holiday.”[2]. ”[2].

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This Week in Logistics News (May 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

Late Tuesday night, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expanded an emergency fuel waiver allowing 12 states and the District of Columbia to sell off-spec gasoline through the end of the month to alleviate shortages caused by the Colonial Pipeline shutdown. Royal Mail is going to start using drones to deliver packages.

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In Memoriam: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Enterra Insights

.”[3] At Columbia, she became the first female professor to earn tenure. She held her Columbia professorship until 1980, when she accepted President Jimmy Carter’s appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

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