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John Weaver used his power to get jobs for young men he allegedly harassed. His colleagues were warned. Alex Johnson was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, pursuing a career in politics, when he first heard from John Weaver, the legendary Republican operative living nearby. It started with a direct message on […]
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Read the article at Fortune.com On Jan. 14 at 8:43 p.m., Patrick McKenzie tweeted a plea for tech engineers to help him set up a website to track covid-19 vaccine availability in California. McKenzie, who heads a Bay Area financial services tech company, issued the call to “anyone in California [who] wants to do a […]
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Read the article at US News & World Report San Francisco restaurant owners, already simmering over covid-19 restrictions, are ready to boil over because of a city ban on natural gas stoves in new buildings that takes effect in June. The ban, which also affects other gas appliances, is part of a statewide campaign aimed […]
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Read this article in The New York Magazine» Ashli Babbitt did not hide her far-right political views. Outside her San Diego bungalow, located blocks from the beach, she flew both an American flag and a QAnon flag emblazoned with a giant Q and the acronym WWG1WGA, for “Where we go one, we go all.” She plastered her SUV with […]
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Read this article in The Intercept» When Montana’s legislature met at the end of December to vote on whether visitors to the state Capitol building should have to wear masks, one lawmaker gave an impassioned plea. “I have no stomach to talk about this abstractly; my community has been hit hard,” said Sharon Stewart Peregoy, a […]
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At first, Angela Marsden was worried about uploading the video she had taken because she didn’t want people to mistake her for an anti-masker. But she felt the hypocrisy she was seeing around California’s latest coronavirus lockdown was too much to bear. Marsden owns a Los Angeles restaurant, the Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill, which […]
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Trump fought Californian environmental officials. The Biden team wants to learn from them. No state has weathered the brunt of the Trump administration’s climate skepticism like California. During the past four years, the president stripped the Golden State of its ability to regulate car emissions, threatened to withhold emergency wildfire funds due to supposed forest […]
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The holiday shopping season has started, and spending on toys is expected to be big this year as parents try to fight lockdown boredom. Toy sales in the United States increased by more than 15 percent in the first half of 2020, according to the NPD Group, a research firm that tracks consumer trends, and the surge is […]
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Mayuri Saxena’s only chance to live is through access to experimental drugs. Now Congress holds her fate in its hands. Mayuri Saxena first knew something was off when she began tripping at work and struggling to get out of her seat during her NYC subway commute. In just three months the 32-year-old became wheelchair-bound, but […]
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The rate of COVID-19 infections in Montana is among the highest anywhere on the globe, and more than 320 Montana residents have died from the virus in the month of November. After weathering a mild spring with few infections, the state and its neighbors are experiencing crushing infection rates that are maxing out hospital resources for the ill. St. Vincent’s […]
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