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I. The State of Self-Driving Car Technology and The Possibilities In the 1990 film, Total Recall (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone), the protagonist played by the now former governor of California hails a self-driving car with a humanoid, robotic attendant sitting where a human driver would. What makes the surreal scene eerily prophetic is how Schwarzenegger asks the AI cab driver questions like one might ask Alexa, Siri, or Google's voice assistant, and the "Johnny Cab" sasses

Updated on Thursday, August 23, 2018 Aretha Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1942, two years later her family moved to Buffalo, New York and from there to Detroit, Michigan which became her home. These moves occurred in the middle of the Great Migration of African Americans from the Jim Crow south to northern and western cities.In Detroit her father, Rev. C. L. Franklin became the prominent pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church, where Aretha began singing gospel.Rev. C. L. Franklin b

Top Senate Republicans have finally had enough of the Trump Administration's economic interventionism in the form of tariffs that effectively raise the price of imported goods for the American consumers and businesses that buy them. The final straw? Retaliatory tariffs from China on American farmers in response to Trump's tariffs on imported steel. Even before China hit back with tariffs of its own on American food exports, these steel tariffs have had a devastating impact on American businesse

The State of California's Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), has filed a complaint on behalf of the California Teamsters Local 911 who represents the San Diego Lifeguard Union. The union claims the San Diego Fire-Rescue department in coordination with the City of San Diego, engaged in unfair labor practices relating to 911 response times and the reluctance to send the San Diego Lifeguard Swift Water Rescue team to Houston to assist with Hurricane Harvey emergency services. COPY OF COMP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih9Ir0B5uGE At a briefing on Capitol Hill, the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation presented new public opinion data that shows American voters are eager for three key electoral reforms that would give voters a greater voice at the ballot box and more fair representation in government, while tempering the partisan rancor that currently dominates our politics. The survey was conducted online with a random sample of 2,482 registered voters who

Former Republican Rep. Zach Wamp of Tennessee isn't one to back down from a political fight and will tell you exactly how he feels about the state of our national politics. From calling Baby Boomers "selfish and too ideological," to stating that for the "first time in history, polling shows that neither party beats either party," and the "American people are becoming restless and are ready for a bloodless, political revolution," Wamp sounds more like a guy ready to get back into Congress and fi

Sitting in the audience at the Unrig the System Summit in New Orleans two weeks ago, I couldn’t help but feel that a tide was turning. Speaker after speaker at this high energy and well-attended event made one central point: America cannot engage its massive social and economic problems under the present system. It is too corrupt. Until we change it, reform it, re-engineer it, we will be powerless. The conference’s main organizer, Josh Silver of Represent.Us, echoed this point throughout the w

In the last week of 2017, the Washington Post published an article highlighting perhaps the biggest winner from the the new GOP tax plan: accountants. The bill’s passage on partisan lines, along with the rhetoric that’s followed, is yet another indication that the two parties and their enablers in the media are more interested in staying in power than being honest with the American people or truly doing what’s best. Many Americans have been debating this topic and as has sadly become the norm,

On Tuesday, the Memphis City Council voted to place a charter amendment on the November 2018 ballot to repeal ranked choice voting (RCV, locally called "instant runoff voting") for electing most city council seats. Ignoring a remarkable show of support for RCV captured in this television news story, the council disregarded its citizens’ wishes. The will of Memphis voters is clear. Nearly ten years ago, citizens overwhelmingly voted by 71 percent to 29 percent for a charter amendment establishi

Supporters of a 2018 ballot initiative to legalize psychedelic mushrooms in California were given the green light by the state attorney general's office earlier this month to circulate petitions and gather signatures. They now have until April 30 to gather and submit 365,880 valid signatures from registered voters in the first state to ever legalize medical marijuana under Proposition 215 in 1996. That ballot proposition, as well as Prop. 64 -- the 2016 voter initiative titled "The Adult Use o