Boy Scout draws ire of SEIU

Boy Scout draws ire of SEIU

A Pennsylvania Boy Scout who cleared a hiking trail in a city park has drawn the ire of a municipal union. Kevin Anderson, 17, spent more than 200 hours clearing the trail in Allentown to earn an Eagle Scout badge. But Nick Balzano of the Service Employees International Union threatened to file a grievance, saying only union members can work in the park. “There’s to be no volunteers,” said Balzano.

A divorce caused by airplanes?

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A California man is suing San Francisco International Airport for $15 million, claiming that airport noise ruined his marriage. Stanley Hilton, 60, says his marriage “went downhill almost immediately upon moving” to the house in 2003, and he blames airplanes for driving his wife of 13 years to leave him, taking their three children. Takeoffs, said Hilton, “sound like bombs dropping.”