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Senate Committee Advances Biden’s Labor Secretary Nominee Julie Su

February 27, 2024 6:25 pmFebruary 27, 2024 6:25 pm

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee voted today 11 to 10 to advance Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su’s re-nomination to the post permanently to the full senate. The committee met behind closed doors to take an...

LA Times’ Passive-Aggressive DA Race Coverage

February 27, 2024 12:48 pmFebruary 27, 2024 12:48 pm

The Los Angeles Times wants District Attorney George Gascon to be re-elected. They said so themselves directly in their January endorsement of Gascon. But they’ve also said it in a number of other ways and, also, by not saying anything...

‘Acting’ Labor Secretary Julie Su Behind Closed Doors

February 26, 2024 3:43 pmFebruary 26, 2024 3:44 pm

Julie Su’s quest to edit the word “acting” from her title as Secretary of Labor will continue Tuesday, with the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee holding a meeting on her recent re-nomination to the position. Unlike the...

The Consensus Machine and the True Peril of AI

February 26, 2024 6:48 amFebruary 26, 2024 6:48 am

The current explosion of artificial intelligence and machine learning uses has a lot of people worried. AI can replace human workers, write college papers, create very realistic internet deep fakes and so on – those are the worries that stand...

Los Angeles DA Gascon Sued – Again – By His Staff

February 25, 2024 8:47 amFebruary 25, 2024 8:47 am

The Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys (“ADDA”), the union representing nearly 800 line prosecutors in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, has filed an unfair labor practice charge against their boss – current DA George Gascón –...

Enough Benjamins for George?

February 23, 2024 5:39 pm

In his successful quest to defeat Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey in 2020, current DA George Gascon got about $3.7 million dollars from the Smart Justice California Action fund. True – that money was largely aimed at the general...

Los Angeles DA Candidates on the State of the Campaign

February 22, 2024 2:35 amFebruary 22, 2024 7:19 am

With only 12 days to go, the dozen people who hope to be the next (or continue to be) Los Angeles County District Attorney have pushed their campaigns into overdrive. With so many candidates, even a seemingly small bump could...