Newsom calls Trump’s $1 billion UCLA settlement offer extortion, says California won’t bow
This article was originally published in Reuters By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Saturday that a $1 billion settlement offer by President Donald Trump’s administration for UCLA amounted to political extortion to which the state will not bow. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The University of California says it is reviewing a $1 billion settlement offer by the […]
Congress wants to cut the smartest investment taxpayers ever made
This article was originally published in The Hill By David Patterson Virtually every smartphone on the planet runs on a chip paid for by American taxpayers — a chip that I helped invent. Now Congress is moving to cut funding for the National Science Foundation that could lead to future breakthroughs. Investing in innovation is […]
Trump is killing the science that powers our future — California must act to save itself
This article was originally published in The Hill by Julia Falo, opinion contributor On Jan. 24, the Atlas Tool disappeared — an interactive dataset on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website that tracks 20 years of data on a range of infectious diseases. Scientists monitoring infection patterns in hepatitis, HIV and others were suddenly flying […]