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The Journal’s Dec. 7 editorial regarding the Council District 1 seat bemoans a “cloud of uncertainty” and goes so far as to question whether the current City Council should carry on the people’s business if one councilor-elect is not able to take office early. Contrary to this stated opinion, these questions actually have straightforward answers grounded in clear state law and recent city pre...

Liskow & Lewis, an energy law firm based in New Orleans, occupies 30,000 square feet at 1001 Fannin. Riverway Title leased 13,709 square feet at Three Riverway for relocation of its corporate office. Jason Whittington of NAI Partners represented the tenant. Brad Fricks of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord. Cosmos Wholesale leased 8,268 square feet at Post Oak Service Center,...

Mask up again. California’s latest mask mandate went into effect this week, requiring face coverings in all public indoor settings through Jan. 15, 2022. In counties where local health authorities had already issued mask mandates, the new statewide rule won’t change daily life. And in San Francisco, where vaccination rates are high and community transmission remains relatively low, fully vacc...

Construction on a 1,300-foot-deep well is underway in the Central Valley town of Terra Bella. It emerged during one of the worst droughts in California history, when rampant agricultural pumping was causing groundwater levels to plummet and hundreds of Central Valley wells were going dry. Signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act was intended to address ov...

MOSCOW, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The Russian parliament's lower house, the State Duma, on Thursday gave the first nod of approval to a draft law that would require people to show QR codes demonstrating proof of immunity to COVID-19 in order to visit certain public places. The bill still needs to be approved by the upper house of parliament and signed by President Vladimir Putin to come into force. ...

Nonpartisan agency backs off earlier claim as nurses pursue union recognition Sen. Melissa Agard at a press conference in May in support of UW Health nurses who want union representation. A new Legislative Council memo that Agard requested says that nothing in state law directly forbids collective bargaining at UW Health. (Erik Gunn | Wisconsin Examiner) Armed with a new legal opinion that st...

Fewer Tennesseans approve of Gov. Bill Lee's performance than they did last spring, according to a new Vanderbilt poll released Thursday. The poll recorded a stark 10-point drop from 65% to 55%, though Lee's May 2021 rating was a historic high for the first-term governor. The Vanderbilt poll recorded a 58% approval rating in December 2020, a slight dip from 61% in May 2019. John Geer, a Van...

VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 16, 2021 /CNW/ - Pan American Silver Corp. (NASDAQ: PAAS) (TSX: PAAS) ("Pan American Silver") reports that, on December 15, 2021, the legislature of the Province of Chubut in Argentina approved a legislative bill (the "Bill") that would modify the provincial mining law to allow permitting of open pit mining in certain zones in the Departments of Gastre and Telsen, which ar...

Six senators have urged Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to issue informal guidance providing the definition of “broker” of cryptocurrency and other digital assets in a provision of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Section 80603 of the law seeks to “provide more certainty for Americans looking to invest in these digital assets, ensuring that crypto investors receive the same tax doc...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's data privacy watchdog CNIL has ordered Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that has collected 10 billion images worldwide, to stop amassing and using data from people based in the country. In a formal demand disclosed on Thursday, the CNIL stressed that Clearview's collection of publicly-available facial images on social media and the Internet had no legal ba...