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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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Hurricane Florence Update: Impacts, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

Response: State of Emergency declarations were already made in the states of Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The Hurricane Center has warned that, similar to Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Florence will linger in the southeastern states for days. In North Carolina, Gov.

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Hurricane Florence Update: Impacts, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

Response: State of Emergency declarations were already made in the states of Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The Hurricane Center has warned that, similar to Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Florence will linger in the southeastern states for days. In North Carolina, Gov.

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4 Food and Beverage Manufacturing Trends on Tap for 2020

USC Consulting Group

billion , up 11% from 2018 and 18% from 2017 at $3.4 As noted by the National Conference of State Legislatures, nearly a dozen states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational usage, the latest being Illinois in May. Few changes have been more widespread than the decriminalization of marijuana.

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Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2021

Enterra Insights

The District of Columbia (ironically named after Columbus) changed the name of the Federal Holiday to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a name also used in Alaska, Maine, New Mexico, Oregon, and Vermont. ” Rochester Institute of Technology Newsletter, October 2017. [3] Footnotes. [1] He had three ships and left from Spain.

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