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Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Doucefleur/iStock/Getty Images Plus and Indysystem/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Jenée Desmond-Harris is online weekly to chat live with readers. Here’s an edited transcript of this week’s chat. Q. Masked but sad: A former high school classmate “Becky” attempted suicide and it’s partially my brother-in-law’s (“Bill”) fault. Becky became locally famous in ...

Pat Bosch, left, and Karen Washington, right, near the Bel Air shopping plaza in Detroit's Nortown neighborhood, where residents imagining new uses for large commercial sites facing vacancy and neglect. This article is co-published by the Energy News Network and Planet Detroit with support from the Race and Justice Reporting Initiative at the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne St...

The Illinois Statehouse in Springfield. The sudden closure of Vistra Energy’s Havana, Illinois, coal plant two years ago was a win for the climate and ratepayers, but a devastating blow to the tax base that the local school district, parks, and libraries depended on. The sweeping energy bill that passed in Illinois this month promises a “just transition” for communities like Havana that are a...

A new California law, effective January 1, 2022, closely regulates productivity quotas for warehouse distribution centers. AB 701 applies to employers of 100 or more employees at a single warehouse distribution center or 1,000 or more employees at one or more warehouse distribution centers in the state and purports to address warehouse safety concerns by imposing the following: Requires empl...

The Southern Poverty Law Center recently notified the Cobb County School District that it intends to sue on behalf of students with disabilities if stricter COVID-19 protocols are not put into place, including a mask mandate. The organization sent Superintendent Chris Ragsdale and the school board a letter on behalf of clients who are Cobb students with disabilities, including medically vulne...

A voter wearing protective gloves inserts a ballot into a counting machine at a polling location for the 2020 presidential election in Rodeo, Calif., on Nov. 3, 2020. Colin Flannery, ex-Vertiv legal chief, joins parent company SGO He succeeds chief counsel David Melville, who departed in June Smartmatic Corp., a voting technology company caught up in litigation over the 2020 U.S. presidenti...

Working long hours into the night without breaks is common for attorneys. But Suffolk University Law School professor Shailini Jandial George says there’s a point where your memory suffers, your stress level spikes, and you start making errors. She offers tips to staying productive while tackling the typical Big Law workload. “I’ll bang my memo out the weekend before it’s due.” “I’ll work all...

A man’s neighbors said they were worried he was watching them with his security camera. He asked a Columbia Falls Police Department officer to look at his footage to confirm that wasn’t the case. A black bear with three cubs was spotted walking on Third Avenue in Columbia Falls. A homeowner on Third Avenue noticed three of her doors looked like someone — or something — had tried to pry them o...

Trojan Review was created by Marshall Amaya and Jonathan Laifman after they took “Fundamentals of the U.S. Legal System” together. (Beth Mosch | Daily Trojan file photo) When Marshall Amaya and Jonathan Laifman took the course “Fundamentals of the U.S. Legal System” together last year, the classmates’ interest in the law field amid a lack of available resources inspired them to create their o...

SYDNEY, Sept 28 (Reuters) - New Zealand moved on Tuesday to cool its red-hot housing market by introducing rules designed to make property speculation less appealing and improve record low housing affordability, a major issue for the government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The draft new law limit property investors from deducting mortgage interest from their taxable incomes, first announ...