Month: June 2017

Meet the Man Who’s Making Tech Do Something About San Francisco’s Massive Wealth Gap – Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/daniel-lurie-san-francisco-tipping-point-homelessness/ “I fundamentally believe that doing good is

Trump’s voter-fraud commission wants to know voting history, party ID and address of every voter in the U.S. – The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/29/trumps-voter-fraud-commission-wants-to-know-the-voting-history-party-id-and-address-of-every-voter-in-america/?utm_term=.1cb48122efa6 Play Video

http://48hills.org/2017/06/27/newsom-sues-sf/ Lite Guv wants to overturn local control over waterfront development Tim RedmondJune 27, 2017 A San Francisco Superior Court Judge will hear arguments Wednesday/28

Taibbi: The War in the White House – Rolling Stone http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-the-war-in-the-white-house-w480238 Months of palace intrigue have pitted the D.C. establishment against Steve Bannon – and

Evidence mounts Russia meddled in US election http://www.businessinsider.com/evidence-russia-meddled-in-us-election-2017-6 US President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.Mark Wilson/Getty Images; Justin Sullivan/Getty Images; Samantha Lee/Business Insider It was

How to fix gerrymandering by making state legislatures bigger. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/do_the_math/2017/06/how_to_fix_gerrymandering_by_making_state_legislatures_bigger.html Make state legislatures bigger. By Jordan Ellenberg If the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison expanded

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region By DAVID LEONHARDT and STUART A. THOMPSON JUNE 23, 2017 Jan. 21 “I wasn’t a fan of Iraq. I didn’t want to go into Iraq.”

President Trump gave a straight answer on Thursday about whether he has recordings of his private conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey — No.

Senate Republicans unveiled their long-awaited health care overhaul proposal on Thursday. The Senate bill, called the “Better Care Reconciliation Act,” would repeal major parts of

Obama ordered U.S intelligence to deploy ‘implants’ in Russian network https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/23/obama-ordered-u-s-intelligence-agency-deploy-implants-russian-network-response-kremlin-hacking/422818001/ Doug StanglinUpdated 15 minutes ago President Obama, angered by Russian hacking during the 2016 elections,