TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Recreational cannabis is now legal in a few more states, including New Jersey and New York, the latter of which has even launched a social equity program that aims to help communities affected by the War on Drugs. The backdrop for public cannabis companies remains bleak with no signs of a near-term recovery.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The tragic collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois during last week’s historic tornado outbreak in the Midwest is raising questions about the safety of the e-commerce giant’s packing facilities and the policies and protocols Amazon has in place to protect workers during disasters. It’s the private sector.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Census Bureau’s American Community Survey’s Public Use Microdata Sample. United for ALICE was developed by United Way of Northern New Jersey and data is now tracked in 33 states and the District of Columbia. national director, United For ALICE and chief research and impact officer of United Way of Northern New Jersey.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

All the incidents “have raised serious questions and drawn scrutiny from legislators, regulators, and the public,” Gallagher said in a statement emailed to The Verge. She said Domini wants the audit to examine “the way in which employee productivity metrics and surveillance contribute to a less safe and stable work environment.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Nelson Mandela spent four-plus decades as an activist and freedom fighter and 27 years in prison because the demeaning National Party policy of apartheid in South Africa impeded black South Africans’ ability to live with human dignity. Out of that anguish was born the long struggle of the birth control movement. As we speak, Occupy Wall St.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

The mask mandate for air travel and public transportation was set to expire April 18th but was recently extended to May 3rd.). While mask usage is still recommended, we’ve updated our Covid Safety policies. New Jersey Transit, however, said it would no longer enforce mask wearing on its trains, as did the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

The publication went on to report on April 1 (and no, it was not an April Fool’s joke), that Fast was seeking a buyer after its failed fundraise attempt. ” I also got the exclusive on a trio of Palantir alums who just raised $25 million in a Series B led by Founders Fund for their new finance startup, Mosaic. in 4 years.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

Of the two test bikes provided to The Verge , we blew a rear tire on one after just 9 miles on poor New Jersey roads, and stripped the threads on the left crank after failing to properly tighten the left pedal per the assembly instructions. The former was perhaps bad luck, and we weren’t able to get it repaired in time for publication.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Traditionally, progressive laws lag behind public opinion, as was the case with the Women’s Suffrage movement and Civil Rights movements. In the case of Columbus, the divide between people and policy still appears quite large according to search interest.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Milan , for example, is investing €250 million into its Urban Biking Strategy that’ll see the birth of fast cycle corridors with better public transit integration. billion, it said in a filing, ahead of its plans to file for an initial public offering early next year. Policy corner. ” — Aria Alamalhodaei.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We are convinced that we can create the same, and even better products by adding more flexibility to the announced return to office policy.”. The overarching desire — the thing that connects the tenured software engineer in Cupertino with the retail employee in New Jersey — is that employees want to feel heard.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 1, 2025

today in a bid to halt the termination of $11 billion in public health grants. The other plaintiffs are Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

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Engadget

MARCH 10, 2025

The USPS does run a program for federal agencies and their employees , but it's not available to the general public. We've outlined policies from a handful of manufacturers below. Instead, the rest of us have to rely on nationwide retailers to toss out our old stuff. They'll even pay for shipping.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

Chief among the issues is getting a meaningful number of people to download any app in the first place, public health officials told me. million to purchase the app and is paying a monthly maintenance fee of $300,000, according to contracts obtained by BuzzFeed News. Here’s Caroline Haskins writing Tuesday in BuzzFeed : Utah Gov.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The right way to do it is to come in with a very bold, ambitious, curious agenda and say like, but this is the right thing to do for the American public, right? Is it a policy? ” And figure out how you might change it legally, so that you can serve the public better. And these rules seem to be stopping us. Is it a memo?”

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2010

On September 25 and 26, the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) hosted the first East Coast substantiation of the Maker Faire. Maker Faire is a massive public event, hosted by Make Magazine annually in San Mateo, that brings together hackers, crafters, and do-it-yourself scientists for a weekend of demonstrations and explosions.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

climate policy, will struggle to reverse. Propelled by record levels of public and private investment, utility-scale solar and wind power accounted for close to 90% of all new energy build-outs in the first nine months of 2024, a nearly 30% surge over 2023. In 2024, ULC also received recognition from the U.S.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. The result was a stack of policies that are largely offensive to mainstream American sensibilities.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

Where ever-shifting content policies, and demands for near-perfect accuracy, could make the job itself impossible. He has since become a public school teacher. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Reported cases in New York: 342,267. Reported cases in New Jersey: 139,945.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Congress may begin writing letters , and new laws will be proposed, so that such a bad post never again appears on the internet. And if they work on the company’s policy team, or as a moderator, they will look to the company’s terms of services. Let’s make it more complex: Scarborough is a public figure — a former congressman, no less.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Facebook says it will abide by the board’s decisions, and will also ask it to issue advisory opinions on emerging policy questions. He told employees on Tuesday : Over time in general, we just we tend to add more policies to restrict things more and more. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ??

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The Verge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Pennsylvania’s unorthodox Lieutenant Governor has established himself as a kind of unofficial spokesman for the state’s efforts to legalize the drug, both in his public statements and on his Twitter feed. Given the gridlock at the federal level, Fetterman worries that national Democrats will leave drug policy on the back burner. “I

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

“I know many people are upset that we’ve left the President’s posts up,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post , “but our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies.”. This has been personally pretty wrenching for me.”.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

As I reported on Thursday, the decision sparked an unusual amount of internal dissent among employees , and on Monday it spilled over into public with a virtual walkout of a few hundred employees. But “I knew that I needed to separate out my personal opinion. And we have some precedents for what that might look like.”

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Spiegel’s memo, which Snap later made public, also came as the big social companies were reckoning over what to do about President Donald Trump’s increasingly bellicose posts about voting by mail and peaceful protesters. Freedom of reach poses a different set of questions for platform policy teams and executives to think through.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

After increasing warehouse workers’ pay in recognition of the increased risks they faced by simply coming in to do their jobs — and routinely calling them “heroes” in public communications — Amazon said Wednesday that their $2 per hour hazard pay would go away in June. And if it succeeds, the new normal will look a lot like the old one.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Last year, a court required Trump to unblock Twitter accounts that had criticized him, determining that his Twitter account specifically — not the site as a whole — constituted a public space protected by the First Amendment. Other public officials have lost similar lawsuits from constituents.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

Members of the American Association of Port Authorities, representing more than 130 public port authorities in the U.S. But Trump, from his first day back in the White House, has attacked much of his predecessors climate policies in the name of energy dominance.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 12, 2025

In addition to hacking away at the federal government in his unelected position as the head of DOGE , Musk could also become the single individual who is the dominant force in telecom policy, according to Blair Levin , a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and former chief of staff at the FCC.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The company gave them a variety of executives to speak with on and off the record, including Joel Kaplan, its vice president of global public policy, who often pops up in stories like this to complain that some action might disproportionately hurt conservatives. He threatened to shut down social media companies.

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