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Lam’s Less Rules, Better People: Cases for Discretion are filled with specific examples of when a lack of discretion causes people to act against justice or simply against common sense. In one chapter, he talks about a woman who was holding round conversations at meetings through her organization. She tried to order coffee for the event, but her agency had a rule that all catering orders had to go to the individual vendor. But there’s a problem – the rounding started at 9:30, but Venn didn’t start taking orders until 10:00. But it turns out there was Starbucks around the…
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Check out the companies that make headlines before the bell. Charter Communication – Cable stock rose 7% after charters agreed to fuse with rival Cox Communication. The Total Company will change its name to Cox Communications within a year. Constellation Brands – The shares won 3.4% after Berkshire Hathaway doubled its shares in the beer importer. Warren Buffett’s position is currently worth around $2.2 billion. Applied Materials – Semiconductor manufacturers reduced their second quarter revenue by 5% after reporting $71 billion. The $5.26 billion semiconductor revenue disappointed what the $5.31 billion analyst was looking for. Take-Two Interactive Software – Shares…
Propublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates power abuse. Sign up and receive the biggest story as soon as it’s published. We are pleased to present the journalists selected for the 2025 cohort of the Propublica Investigative Editor Training Program. The program was established in 2023 to expand the rank of editors with research experience in newsrooms across the country and will help to better reflect the entire country. Nine journalists from across the country will join four Propublica staff for this year’s program. The program is funded by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, which supports journalism, film and arts…
Propublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates power abuse. Sign up and receive the biggest story as soon as it’s published. A few days after President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, the Environmental Protection Agency representative sent an email throughout the workforce detailing the agency’s plans to shut down diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, including a plea for help. “Employees are required to notify,” the Office of Personnel Management, an EPA or federal government personnel agency, received an email from then-admin James Payne on “a program focusing solely on other agency offices, subunits, HR position descriptions,…
Design accessible e-learning for all learners While 26% of US adults live with disabilities, 90% of e-learning courses fail basic accessibility standards. That’s a big gap. If you don’t have access to your course, you’re leaving people behind and putting legal trouble at risk. But accessibility isn’t just about rules. It’s about ensuring that everyone in your organization can learn, grow and succeed. This article explains why accessibility is important, seven key principles for comprehensive design, essential tools, real success stories, and future trends in accessible e-learning. Why accessibility is important in e-learning Legal and ethical cases If the content…
Infants with rare and incurable diseases have first received a customized gene therapy treatment National Institutes of Health first successfully The founder’s sudden exit after Bloomberg, the next leader, like the World Economic Forum’s chass lagarde Climate/environment Analysis: Clean Energy simply reverses China’s CO2 immission for bounty carbon briefs The Earth is heading for a second year above 1.5°C. Climate targets new scientists The instantaneous heat breaks – down The Earth’s energy imbalance has more than doubled in recent decades AGU’s advances Japan As US tariffs approach, the Japanese economy shrinks business time China? Rare Earth competition gets heated with…
Paradoxically, this is likely to create more, not less, illegal immigration to the US. By threatening to tax remittances — money sent from migrant workers in the US to their families back home — the Trump administration is bringing to life one of the worst nightmares of developing and emerging economies worldwide: the end of the long-rising tide of remittance inflows. These inflows have become an essential source of income for families, communities and nations in the so-called “Global South”. On Wednesday, the Ways and Means Committee of the US House of Representatives approved the chairman Jason Smith’s proposal to…
This article is published in collaboration with Texas Tribune, a non-profit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages Texans. Sign up for Bried Weekly and stay on track to essential coverage of Texas issues. After an investigation by Propublica and the Texas Tribune, Texas lawmakers are pushing for sudden penalties on local governments that do not post campaign finance reports online. The first posting requirement, designed to make election spending more transparent, came into effect almost two years ago. Most district leaders said they didn’t know they were out of compliance until the newsroom contacted them. Even after many districts…
Propublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates power abuse. Sign up for Dispatches. This is a newsletter that spotlights misconduct across the country, where you receive your stories in your inbox every week. Last week, North Carolina Democrats won when Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin, who lost a tough race for the state’s Supreme Court, finally admitted defeat after a six-month legal battle to abandon the vote he claimed was non-giatial. But that same morning, the party suffered a more consequential set. Losing control of the state commission that sets voting rules and awards election disputes. The board oversees almost every…