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www.mercurynews.com 6y ago

H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of visa population in U.S.

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Gun Violence Spikes in NYC, Intensifying Debate over Policing

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www.jsonline.com 6y ago

Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses

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www.washingtonpost.com 6y ago

Appeals court rules ACA’s individual mandate unconstitutional

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www.mercurynews.com 6y ago

Walters: An epic California Capitol power struggle recalled

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www.sfchronicle.com 6y ago

At $28.50 a flush, San Francisco leaders say staffed public toilets worth it

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calmatters.org 6y ago

Growing CA pension costs hitting cities and fire districts – hard

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www.mercurynews.com 6y ago

Bay Area tech worker’s forgotten passport leads to Indian jail

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www.mercurynews.com 6y ago

San Jose weakens rent control ordinance amid other housing policy changes

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protectdriversandservices.com 6y ago

“Protect App-Based Drivers and Services Act” Uber/Lyft/Doordash Initiative in CA [pdf]

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www.mercurynews.com 6y ago

CA Gov. Newsom fumbles on redirecting SB1 road-repair money

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www.mercurynews.com 6y ago

Elizabeth Holmes, Silicon Valley’s Latest Phenom (July 2014)

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www.mercurynews.com 6y ago

San Jose: New police portal lets residents quietly report suspected ‘johns’

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scootertalk.org 7y ago

Segway Ninebot ES4 Safety Alert: Top Speed Limit Can Be Defeated Unintentionally

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dailycaller.com 7y ago

Google Manually Manipulates Search Results to Exclude Conservative Sites

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www.mercurynews.com 7y ago

Death by selfie: Why selfies near water, charging locomotives etc. are dangerous

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www.mercurynews.com 7y ago

‘Selfie epidemic’: How Israeli teenager fell to his death in Yosemite

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www.mercurynews.com 7y ago

Prison for visa fraud in case involving Bay Area workers

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www.mercurynews.com 7y ago

IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Millennial Corps: lawsuit

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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

University of Florida Taser incident (“Don't tase me, bro!”)

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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

The Grand Tack Hypothesis

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www.astrobio.net 7y ago

New Research Suggests Solar System May Have Once Harbored Super-Earths (2015)

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www.foxnews.com 7y ago

NY Yankees buy back YES network from Disney in $3.5B deal

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www.foxnews.com 7y ago

More than 700K foreign nationals overstayed visas in 2017, DHS says

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www.mercurynews.com 7y ago

Petition to White House to let H-1B spouses keep working gains Signatures

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www.mercurynews.com 7y ago

H-1B: Outsourcer HCL games visa system to discriminate against non-South Asians

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www.mercurynews.com 7y ago

Amazon NYC Deal blow-up shows the dangers of Ocasio-Cortez’s economic illiteracy

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www.mercurynews.com 7y ago

Has California Governor Newsom Become “Governor Gaslight” over HSR?

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www.mercurynews.com 7y ago

CA made $345M (not predicted $1B) on legal cannabis in 2018

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www.mercurynews.com 7y ago

PG&E to judge: Impossible to completely comply with wildfire prevention rules

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There are 257 open positions with titles that lead with "Senior" {Scientist|Engineer|Manager}. That seems extreme. Does no element of the organization develop from within?

  the ones that worked against construction of dense housing and public transit
I can't think of any public transit construction that has been denied, period, no matter how badly envisioned or constructed.

"We conclude that GBPs are an ineffective policy strategy to reduce gun violence, a finding consistent with descriptive evidence that (i) firearm sales prices are set too low by cities to appreciably reduce the local supply of firearms, (ii) most GBP participants are drawn from populations with low crime risk, and (iii) firearms sold in GBPs tend to be older and less well functioning than the average firearm.

  GrubHub... lost $33.4 million over the last 3 months. (In fairness: COVID-19.)
I don't understand the qualifier. Hasn't Covid-19 been a boon to delivery services? If they can't profit during these artificially beneficial market conditions (boosted demand and endless supply of minions to do delivery), how can they ever profit?
  executive orders can decide what the law means
You should tell the SCOTUS that. They overturned 55% of Obama executive directives that reached them, and his administration had the most overturned unanimously (yes, even Ginsberg and Sotomayor) of any Presidency.

>Also, the U.S. Constitution's requirement that State governments be (small-r) republican

  There is no such requirement
Dude. This is literally in Article IV:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, ..."

  extremely partisan Wisconsin court has now struck down that law in a blatant act of judicial activism
"Extreme partisanship" is more evident in your complaint about a "striking down" that didn't happen of a "law" that doesn't exist. The Court upheld existing law and struck down executive actions that violated it.

By the way, Supreme Court justices here in Wisconsin are elected on statewide ballots, not nominated for life like Federal judges. Your basis for calling them "extremely partisan" is, what, exactly?

Note that this is an Initiative Statute[0] (not a Referendum). This allows them to write a broader package of laws (rather than just "undo" any previous bill) to implement a broader wish list.

When reading the text of proposed law, note that "engaged" means with an active rider/fare, not all time available accepting rides on the app. 25 hours of actual engaged time in a week sounds improbably difficult to achieve in most areas.

Note that this is an Initiative Statute[0] (not a Referendum). This allows them to write a broader package of laws (rather than just "undo" any previous bill) to implement a broader wish list.

When reading it, note that "engaged" means with an active rider/fare, not all time available accepting rides on the app. 25 hours of actual engaged time in a week sounds improbably high.

[0] https://protectdriversandservices.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

"A glitch will cause a shared scooter to rocket to 19 mph (30 kph). The impacted scooter is the Segway Ninebot ES4 that is found in the fleets of most shared scooter companies, Bird, VOI, Jump, Lyft, and many more. The top speed from Segway is ~19 mph and for safety reasons the shared scooter companies limit this speed between 10-15 mph (15-25 kph).

Following a series of simple steps (listed in article) will cause the Segway Ninebot ES4 scooter to rapidly accelerate to 19 mph (30 kph). If the throttle is released during this time it'll take a 1 to 2 seconds before the scooter begins to stop accelerating.

This glitch impacts all ES4 scooters used by the shared scooter companies. It's easy to unintentionally activate and dangerous to an unsuspecting or inexperienced scooter rider. Use caution if trying this for yourself."

If they were picking up trash from the ground, that would be one thing. Generally, they instead harvest redeemables from existing recycling and trash bins... often dumping the remainder on the street or ground in the process.

  All Bay Area cities have to follow mandatory orders for building quotas from a Bay Area organization called ABAG
No, ABAG has no authority that supersedes any city or planning commission.
  First hand accounts re older properties
... is a crock. Older properties tend to have even smaller building footprint/ total parcel area ratios.

How about one example of any parcel with a residence footprint taking 80% of the parcel area?

As or that Lennar development, you are totally ignoring common area (exclusive and nonexclusive use).