BOSTON — A home-delivery disruption at the Boston Globe quickly deteriorated last week into what Boston Newspaper Guild President Scott Steeves described as "crisis mode" by Saturday night, according to the Boston Business Journal. The critical situation developed as it became clear that the broadsheet's new delivery vendor was not up to the task of completing its designated paper routes.
"It turns out the Globe had hired a company from, I believe, Mars to take over the home delivery operation and it has been a fiasco," Globe columnist Kevin Cullen opined on Sunday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama defended his administration's plans to tighten the nation's gun-control restrictions without going through Congress, insisting Monday that the steps he'll announce fall within his legal authority and uphold the constitutional right to own a gun.
Flanked by his attorney general and the head of the FBI, Obama offered few details about the list of recommendations he's received and will come out with over the next few days. Behind the scenes, though, Obama's administration has been preparing an effort to expand background checks on gun sales by forcing more sellers to register as federally licensed gun dealers.
