Power and Profit
A Wealth Tax Needed Two Thirds. Proposition 40 Needs a Majority.
Two bills asked 120 legislators for a wealth tax and got nothing. Proposition 40 asks 22 million voters for a simple majority instead.
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Power and Profit
Federal Antitrust Review Ended in June. Paramount Wants State Review to Cost 1.88 Billion Dollars.
Federal review of the Paramount Warner Bros. Discovery merger ended in June with no conditions. Paramount's answer to the states who sued anyway was that suing should cost 1.88 billion dollars. Three days before the hearing, the states settled. Corrected 22 September.
The Rulebook
The Quorum Came Back in January. The Court Took the Lock Off in June.
The Board regained its quorum in January. In June the Supreme Court removed the tenure protection that quorum sits under, same three chairs, one story about what lapses when a quorum lapses.
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