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Yolobus adds tap-to-pay options (opens the original)
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Riders can now pay their fare on Yolobus with a simple tap of a credit card or mobile device. New convenient payment options available on Yolobus include contactless-enabled credit card or debit card, Google Pay, and Apple Pay, and wearable devices such as smartwatches. According to a local press release, tap-to-pay devices are now installed on all Yolobus fixed-route buses and will be added to BeeLine and paratransit in 2027. When riders board, they don’t need to select the type of fare as the
Taves: California’s Legislature just took on monopolies. Your turn, Gov. Newsom. Sign the COMPETE Act. (opens the original)
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Late last month, California’s legislators did the improbable: They stood up to the best-funded, most ruthless corporate lobbies in the state — the ones that spend millions on negative campaign ads when defied — and said, “No.” Assembly Bill 1776 was one among a flurry of new bills that passed the Legislature in the final days of the session last week. But this isn’t like any other bill awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature. Introduced earlier this year by Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar
FCC grants Paramount’s indirect ownership request for Gulf funds in Warner Bros. Discovery buyout (opens the original)
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By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer CHICAGO (AP) — As Paramount looks to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, it’s racked up billions of dollars in financial backing from three Gulf countries. And the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has now approved the company’s ask for sizeable indirect ownership from those foreign investors. The FCC cleared the way on Thursday, granting sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to hold indirect equity interest
As wildfire smoke exposure grows, UC Davis researchers seek answers (opens the original)
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Wildfire smoke is becoming an increasingly common part of life globally. Studies estimate that the number of people exposed to at least one day of extreme wildfire smoke each year has increased 27-fold over the past decade. As these exposures become more frequent, important questions remain about the short- and long-term effects of wildfire smoke on human health. To better understand, mitigate and prevent the health impacts of wildfire smoke exposure, a team of investigators from UC Davis launch
Dan Walters: California’s future water supplies depend on the outcomes of four intertwined battles (opens the original)
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Since the earliest years of its history, California has been a political battlefield over divvying up the state’s water. The intensity of the multisided conflict, like water itself, ebbs and flows. By happenstance this is one of the more intense and climactic periods in the eternal competition over water. It’s driven by uncertainty over the effects of climate change on precipitation and by looming decisions on how to cope with those effects. What happens on four intertwined fronts in the near fu
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