LA Metro Says TAP Transit Cards May Support Apple Pay Later This Year
According to this official tweet from LA Metro: It’s happening! It’s long been known that LA Metro has been working on upgrading its TAP system, and it’s about…
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How Warming Winters Are Affecting Everything
The new normal is seemingly mild, slushy, and wet winters. Migrations are out of wack, and endanger our already delicate food chain.
Pier 1 Files for Bankruptcy Protection Amid Online Challenge
The Fort Worth, Texas-based home goods supplier filed for bankruptcy protection. Failure to compete with Amazon and others in the e-commerce retail space may be to blame.
Two States, Eight Textbooks, Two American Stories
This is what happens when politics infiltrates State Boards of Education. American History textbooks in Texas and California are re-written with political bias in subjects such as race, immigration, gender and sexuality.
Chinese tourists are allegedly being recruited to spy on the US
Chinese tourists are being recruited by the Chinese PLA to bring back sensitive military gear, a violation of international arms trafficking regulations.
Influential contemporay abstract artist, John Baldessari has died at 88
We lost a conceptual art icon this week.
Syd Mead, designer and artist of future worlds, dies at 86
Neil Genzlinger reporting for The New York Times: Syd Mead, a designer whose wide-ranging work included envisioning vehicles of the future as well as helping to shape the…
Who Knew a Clothes Line Could Be So Controversial?
Michelle Slatalla for the Wall Street Journal writes: But these days, clotheslines lovers are fighting back, Mr. Lake said. At least 19 states (including California, where I live)…
The Unites States of GDP
If the state of California were an independent country, it would have the fifth largest economy in the world, according to a fascinating report by The Economist that looks at both…