California Privacy Law Looms
Businesses race to comply with California’s new data privacy law by 1st January; meanwhile, efforts continue to weaken its protections.
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States Pass Record Number Of Laws To Reel In Drug Prices
States go to war against drug price gouging.
Read more...Here Are Photos of Some of the Dilapidated Equipment San Francisco Wants to Buy from Bankrupt PG&E for $2.5 Billion
Californians have had it with PG&E. But is San Francisco overpaying to get rid of them? Take a look.
Read more...Who’s Responsible for the Ecocide in the Amazon
Ecocode is profitable, so follow the money.
Read more...Democratic Presidential Candidates Face 7 Hours of Tough Questions on Climate Change, From Fracking to Fossil Fuels
CNN hosts seven hour town hall with Democratic presidential candidates on climate change: recap of key exchanges.
Read more...CalPERS’ Blatant Election and Mail Fraud: See-Through Envelopes for Completed Ballots; Illegal Electioneering by Treasurer Fiona Ma, Board Members David Miller and Theresa Taylor; Huge and Illegally Opaque Spending Against Challenger JJ Jelincic
CalPERS takes its election fixing to a new level.
Read more...North Carolina Did What SCOTUS Wouldn’t – Ended GOP Gerrymandering
RNN interview with Dan Vicuna, discussing how a North Carolina state court recently stopped a Republican gerrymandering plan.
Read more...While PG&E Played a ‘Cat and Mouse Game’ With California Regulators, Where Was Kamala?
The WSJ account of how PG&E played a “cat and mouse game” with regulators; alas, California’s utilities commission “is not a particularly adroit cat.”
Read more...Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing
Private equity has glommed onto the healthcare sector, and drives the “surprise” medical billing. phenomenon.
Read more...‘Father Is Surgeon’: How Money Talked in USC Admissions Scandal
Defense attorney releases emails documenting just how seriously USC officials weighed family donations in making admissions decisions.
Read more...Brexit: Thar She Blows
Does Parliament’s revolt agaist Boris Johnson on Brexit amount to progress?
Read more...Why Does Teen Vogue Need a Labor Column?
Why indeed? Labor issues are certainly as important to the interests of its readers as are many – if not most – of the issues Teen Vogue regularly covers.
Read more...Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging
Nearly 8% of Americans 60 and older were “food insecure” in 2017.
Read more...CEO Compensation Increased 940% Between 1978 and 2018, Workers’ Only by 12%
An Economic Policy Institute study shows that the dramatic increase in CEO compensation has a large impact on increasing inequality. Absent the explosive rise in CEO compensation, worker pay could have doubled.
Read more...AOC Calls Out Barbara Boxer for Helping Lyft Fight Against California Labor Bill
AOC: Former government officials “should not become corporate lobbyists, in letter or spirit.”
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