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Rice notices need not be given to tenured school board employees

Under New Jersey’s Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA), a public agency may discuss taking adverse action against a public employee in a closed (executive) meeting unless the employee being discussed exercises his or her right to have the discussion conducted in public.

In order for the employee to meaningfully exercise that right, the public agency is required to give timely notice (ie a “Rice” notice, named after the 1977 case of Rice v. Union County Regional High School Board of Education) to any employee whose rights could be adversely affected by the intended private discussion.

In today’s published (and thus

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Rent control battles looms but it’s never been easy to pass tenant protections on Beacon Hill

Feeling trapped, she refused to pay the increase. Somehow, she hasn’t been evicted, but knows she’s teetering on the edge. Her landlord sends her a letter each month detailing how much back rent she owes. The amount recently eclipsed $10,000.

“What else am I supposed to do?” said Lewis, 71, who has become a regular presence at rent control rallies in the city. “I’ve lived here 30 years; this is my home. And lord knows there’s nowhere else in Boston I could afford. This is my only choice.”

The owner of Lewis’s building, development firm DSF Group, did not return

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2 Supercharged Growth Stocks to Buy Right Now

The rising-interest-rate environment has proven to be quite challenging for the US equity market, especially for growth stocks. Share prices of many companies have tanked dramatically in the past year despite solid financials and robust business models.

Airbnb (ABNB 5.96%) and Snowflakes (SNOW 4.53%) are two such companies that have continued to post solid numbers, yet their share prices are currently trading at a deep discount to their historical valuations. Here’s why these two companies can prove to be smart long-term buys for investors in the current times.

1. Airbnbs

Airbnb’s leading short-term rental platform has established a

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Twitter sued for not paying rent on San Francisco HQ since Elon Musk’s takeover

Twitter is being sued by its landlord for ducking out on rent for its downtown San Francisco headquarters, where the platform reportedly went through heavy cost-cutting under new CEO Elon Musk.

The company owes $136,260 in unpaid rent, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday by Columbia Property Trust.

Twitter’s freeloading was reported early last month by the New York Times, which Musk wrote and his advisors hoped to renegotiate terms of lease agreements after mass layoffs.

The downsizing has already begun.

Twitter closed its Seattle offices, The Times reported Friday — cutting janitorial and security services. Employees were left bringing