November 15, 2016
The Intercept Lee Fang November 8, 2016 As Donald Trump finishes his campaign with a promise to break the control of Washington by political insiders, his transition team is preparing to hand his administration over to a cozy clique of corporate lobbyists and Republican power brokers. “Our movement is about replacing a …
September 12, 2016
San Francisco Chronicle September 10, 2016 by Kurtis Alexander The long-running debate over paper versus plastic was pretty much settled in the Bay Area years ago. Plastic lost. Most cities around the bay, and nearly 150 cities and counties statewide, bar groceries and drug stores from giving single-use plastic bags to customers. …
September 9, 2016
Slate, September 9, 2016 By Henry Grabar Pre-emption has become the most powerful statehouse tactic of our time. In May 2011, Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker approved Senate Bill 23, which prohibited the state’s municipalities from enacting paid sick leave laws. From the outside, it might’ve appeared as if he was …
September 8, 2016
SF Weekly September 7, 2016 by Jonathan Greenberg During the past decade, five counties in California and three in Hawaii have passed common-sense public-safety laws to protect public health, organic agriculture, and clean water by regulating farms that grow pesticide-soaked genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Now, San Francisco’s Ninth Circuit Court of …
June 19, 2015
Al Jazeera America June 18, 2015 by Amadou Diallo Moments before Adam Briggle was arrested in early June along with other protesters for blocking the entrance to a fracking site in Denton, Texas, police Sgt. Scott Jenkins approached him with a smile. “He shook my hand and thanked me for …