The president loves to hate on the Golden State, but the proof is in the profits.
Source: www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-29/trump-vs-california-state-s-economy-vastly-outpaces-u-s
A visit to the Valley Relics Museum is like stepping into a time machine for a tour of the San Fernando Valley. Your guide for this excursion is Tommy Gelinas, and the Valley Relics Museum is his passion project.
Source: m.discoverlosangeles.com/blog/discover-valley-relics-museum-chatsworth
The EU has a new data protection law, the so-called GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, or as we Germans like to call it: “Datenschutzgrundverordnung” (Gesundheit!). The rules took effect on May 25th and so far it’s pretty chaotic: in the EU we cannot reach some newspapers in the outside world because they
Source: petapixel.com/2018/05/30/how-bad-is-gdpr-for-photographers/
A new legislative project seeks to impose its dominion over state lawmakers.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/opinion/project-blitz-christian-nationalists.html
The research suggests that when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy.
At the Santa Margarita Ranch, the Pacific Coast Railroad offers rides on passenger cars that were originally used at Disneyland on the theme park’s railroad attraction.
Source: www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-disney-trains-20180524-htmlstory.html
The gilded future of the top 10 percentâand the end of opportunity for everyone else
Source: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/
American police have been reluctant to use systems that can scan live video for the faces of “persons of interest.” Amazon wants to change that with a cheaper, cloud-based version of the technology.
Source: www.npr.org/2018/05/22/613115969/orlando-police-testing-amazons-real-time-facial-recognition
As the Trump administration moves aggressively to allow more states to impose mandatory work requirements on their Medicaid programs, several…
Source: talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-admin-poised-to-give-rural-whites-a-carve-out-on-medicaid-work-rules
Supreme Court rules on workers’ rights and forced arbitration.
Source: www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-court-workers-20180521-story.html