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Congress Probing Berkeley Over Anti-Semitism

March 19, 2024 4:17 pmMarch 19, 2024 4:17 pm

You can now add the University of California, Berkeley to the list of high profile, high powered universities that are being investigated by Congress over how they have reacted to the wave of antisemitism that has roiled campuses since the...

The New Fed Contractor Rule is Great! …But Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Says the LA Times

March 18, 2024 2:50 pmMarch 18, 2024 2:50 pm

Sometimes alternate realities are fun. A good movie, an engrossing sci-fi book, thinking ever so briefly what you will do with all that money when the lottery ticket you just bought wins. Harmless escapism and, to be blunt, something...

Reedley Chinese Communist Party-Linked Lab: One Year Later

March 18, 2024 2:44 amMarch 18, 2024 10:23 am

It was exactly a year ago Saturday when officials with the City of Reedley executed a search warrant on what turned out to be a secret, Chinese Communist Party-linked laboratory in the middle of downtown. In the past year, the...

Government Censorship on Trial: U.S. Supremes to Hear Arguments Monday

March 15, 2024 8:00 amMarch 15, 2024 11:49 am

The government-backed censorship-industrial complex goes on trial Monday when the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the most important free speech case in decades: Murthy v. Missouri. The lawsuit – brought by a pair of states and...

Su Ignores Subpoena, Congress Irked

March 13, 2024 8:41 pmMarch 13, 2024 8:41 pm

Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su has ignored a Congressional subpoena issued last November and the electeds that issued the subpoena really want to know why. For more than a year, the House Education and the Workforce Committee has been trying...

Not So Free-lance: Fed Rule Takes Effect Today

March 11, 2024 4:13 pmMarch 11, 2024 4:13 pm

Are you a freelancer or a gig worker or an independent contractor now? You might not be tomorrow. Today, a new Department of Labor – under the leadership of Acting Secretary Julie Su – rule governing how a freelancer is...

Wither Gas Bans?

March 11, 2024 12:04 pmMarch 11, 2024 12:05 pm

In January, a trio of judges from the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals struck down the city of Berkeley’s natural gas hook-up ban. Now, Berkeley has a ticking clock running on deciding if they will appeal the decision to...