Category Archives: Guest Post

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.

Links 9/7/19

One Very Bad Habit Is Fueling the Global Recycling Meltdown

The well-meaning are engaging in ‘wishcycling’ – opting to place objects in the recycling bin that don’t belong.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/6/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs and retail, Biden, Sanders, Trump, Warren, employment situation, Amazon and automation, Burry on index funds, Yahoo debacle, Boeing woes, climate and economic models, lawns, simulation modeling, homeless fires, Harlan County miners, Chris Arnade, folk-zoological knowledge

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.”

Links 9/6/19

Why 2020 Dems Should Target the Nonprofit Charter School Industry

How neoliberal grifters, pursuing charter school profits, destroyed an historic building.

Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing

Private equity has glommed onto the healthcare sector, and drives the “surprise” medical billing. phenomenon.

Apple Blinks on Right to Repair: Or Does It?

Apple makes modest concessions on the right to repair. Seems to be less here than meets the eye.

Links 9/5/19

Germany to Ban Use of Glyphosate By End 2023

Germany moves to reduce significantly the use of glyphosate – and ban it outright, starting in 2023.

Summers and the Road to Damascus

Why pushing on a string has never worked: monetary policy has never been robustly effective in promoting economic recovery or growth.

FabScrap Tackles Fashion Waste

FabScrap works with fashion companies to reuse and recycle fashion scraps, thereby mitigating the notorious waste in the fashion industry.

‘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.

Links 9/4/19