While CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s cover-up of her resume misrepresentations is not worse than her crime, it looks awfully guilty.
Read more...An insider’s take on surveillance.
Read more...Verizon shows that extortion is fundamental to its business model.
Read more...An update on an important pension fund fiduciary duty case.
Read more...Yet another addition to the long roster of Board and senior executive misconduct at CalPERS.
Read more...A libertarian case against Silicon Valley’s digital slavemasters.
Read more...Why Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court would be very bad news.
Read more...CalPERS General Counsel Matt Jacobs and Board President Priya Mathur get well-deserved black eyes.
Read more...Why shareholders are getting a raw deal out of the misguided corporate fixation on “maximizing shareholder value,” and Elizabeth Warren’s new bill is therefore good for them.
Read more...Even the Sacramento Bee is compelled to call out CalPERS executives for their failure to do basic checking when hiring former CFO Charles Asubonten.
Read more...American Academy of Pediatrics highlights health concerns for children from plastics, and recommends reducing use of plastics, and not microwaving them or placing them in the dishwasher.
Read more...Another attack on union funding.
Read more...Ninth Circuit orders EPA to implement a long overdue ban of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to developmental delays in children and nervous system damage to people and animals exposed. Court previously had to order Obama EPA in 2015 to act on the issue; it’s unclear whether this decision will survive appeal.
Read more...The US Bureau of Land Management yesterday took first steps to opening 1.6 million acres public lands in California to fracking, ending a five-year moratorium on such practices.
Read more...Yet another proof that the authorities were given evidence of widespread mortgage fraud before the crisis and chose to do nothing about it.
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