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Virginia Court of Appeals Clarifies “Place of Business” Licensing Requirement | JD Supra
Virginia’s Alcohol Beverage Control (“ABC”) Act provides that an entity seeking to ship wine to Virginia consumers must have a license to do so, and each license must “designate the place where the business of the licensee will be carried on.” Virginia law further explains that unless an exemption applies, “a separate license is required for each separate place of business.” A recent decision from Virginia, Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority v.
Safe Connections Act of 2021 (S. 120)
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Better Cybercrime Metrics Act (S. 2629)
Add a note about this bill. Your note is for you and will not be shared with anyone. Because you are a member of panel, your positions on legislation and notes below will be shared with the panel administrators. (More Info) A bill to establish cybercrime reporting mechanisms, and for other purposes. Sponsor and status Introduced Aug 5, 2021 117th Congress (2021–2023) Status Enacted — Signed by the President on May 5, 2022 This bill was enacted after being signed by the President on May 5, 2022.
A resolution recognizing National Native American Heritage Month and celebrating the heritages and cultures of Native Americans and the contributions of Native Americans to the United States. (S.Res. 440)
History Nov 4, 2021 Introduced Bills and resolutions are referred to committees which debate the bill before possibly sending it on to the whole chamber. Nov 4, 2021 Agreed To The resolution was passed in a vote in the Senate. A simple resolution is not voted on in the other chamber and does not have the force of law. The vote was by Voice Vote so no record of individual votes was made. S.Res. 440 is a simple resolution in the United States Congress.
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2021 (S. 2264)
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Biden Rebukes Trump's Climate Denial
Biden Rebukes Trump's Climate Denial | RealClearPolitics
President Biden's Earth Day climate summit is a rebuke to Trump's denialism. But it's only a start.
America abandoned its position of leadership on climate change under Donald Trump, and it cost us. It cost us the very international standing he swore he so valued, and, more importantly, it cost us precious time to battle the climate crisis. President Joe Biden and the entire U.S. government now have a pivotal opportunity to reclaim our leadership role on climate change and to do our part in reducing emissions. We must act now — and we must act big.
Native American Language Resource Center Act of 2021 (S. 989)
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My Priceless Summer on a Maine Lobster Boat
Luna Soley is a student at Bowdoin College. She likes sea kayaking, Steinbeck novels, and second breakfast. During her college break, the author went all in on solitude—living alone on a Down East island and working for one of the area’s few female skippers. Luna Soley reflects on a time of loneliness, hard work, and natural beauty. Instead of a bilge pump, I brought lupines and daisies. Stupid, I thought. Twenty years old and you think you’re invincible, think your life is some romantic story.
Anywhere But Here
—Photo Illustration by Sean Pearsons Department Colorado inmate Douglas Alward has escaped from prison seven times. Only one person knows if he’ll try again. By Bryan Schatz • 5280 October 2014 It’s 10 p.m. on august 22, 2010. The escape artist throws open his prison cell window and tosses three six-foot sections of copper piping out into the yard. Even though he’s done this sort of thing a half-dozen times before, he’s still nervous.
Two Friends Quit Their Jobs to Build a Cabin. Everything Went Wrong.
Bryan marks the cabin’s foundation posts. Pat hauls water from the Skykomish River for mixing concrete. (Photos: Bryan Schatz and Patrick Hutchison) It started in 2013, when, seeking a base camp for mountain adventures, Pat bought a 10-by-12-foot off-grid shack on Craigslist for $7,000. It was in Index, Washington, on the western slope of the Cascades, an hour-and-a-half drive from Seattle. The first thing he did was host a long-weekend work party to fix it up.
We Quit Our Jobs to Build a Cabin-Everything Went Wrong
Long hikes, casual breaks, and leisurely river sessions immediately went out the window. There was no time. In part, because we hadn’t anticipated the little things. The forest floor was steeply sloped and covered in rain-slicked clay and fern root balls that grabbed at our feet. Our shoes became caked in mud. We slid and fell, and when that happened, our tape measure’s delicate hold on some distant piece of lumber was lost, forcing us to start over.
Weapons of War Don’t Belong in Our Communities. The Senate Can Change That.
This week, the Senate will vote on our amendment which would reverse the flow of lethal military equipment to local police departments. The scene at the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct / Carlos Gonzalez During the peaceful Black Lives Matter protests, local police turned our communities into war zones. We all saw the terrifying images that dominated our screens. Police in military gear storming our streets. Combat vehicles rumbling down our city blocks. Tear gas unleashed on our neighbors.
A Cave Kingpin Is Buying Up America’s Underground. What’s His Plan?
On an unpleasant, damp Saturday in late October, Ackerman and I drove through Fillmore County in his van, stocked with helmets, gloves, headlamps, cave suits, boots, arm pads, kneepads, and wetsuits, along with an assortment of ropes and harnesses that I hoped we wouldn’t be using. Our destination was Holy Grail Cave, whose exact location I didn’t yet know. The sites of Ackerman’s cave entrances are kept largely under wraps, though some of these secrets are more closely guarded than others.
Michael Mann Fought Climate Denial. Now He’s Fighting Climate Doom.
The climatologist is taking on both the fossil fuel lobby and those who think the climate fight is futile. ONE AUGUST AFTERNOON IN 2010, Michael Mann was opening mail in his office at Penn State University when a dusting of white powder emerged from an envelope. At first he thought it was his imagination. “I figured maybe it’s just an old dingy envelope or something,” Mann recalled. His next thought: anthrax. Mann bolted out of his office and shut the door, washed his hands, and called the cops.
Michael Mann Fought Climate Denial. Now He’s Fighting Climate Doom.
ONE AUGUST AFTERNOON IN 2010, Michael Mann was opening mail in his office at Penn State University when a dusting of white powder emerged from an envelope. At first he thought it was his imagination. “I figured maybe it’s just an old dingy envelope or something,” Mann recalled. His next thought: anthrax. Mann bolted out of his office and shut the door, washed his hands, and called the cops. Soon, the FBI arrived.
Inside the sting that caught a Northwest wildlife killing ring
The deeper into the yard they went, inching toward a rusting GMC Jimmy wet with rain, the faster Haynes’ breathing became. “I want to go back inside,” he stammered. Bahrenburg, one of four wardens at Haynes’ house that night, reached the GMC, and that’s when he saw it: a pile of black trash bags, each one bursting with antlers. He stooped and scanned under the vehicle with his flashlight — more bags with antlers. In the bed of the truck, still more. “What is all this?” he said.
Summer 2020
The Pandemic Issue Features Revisiting Earth Abides, the novel that inspired Stephen King and Jimi Hendrix By Pat Joseph Read more » Michael Mann fought those who attacked the hockey stick graph. Now, he’s fending off those who embrace it too readily. By Bryan Schatz Read more » As we enter uncharted territory, we ask Berkeley experts, including faculty and alumni, for wisdom and direction. By Editorial Staff Read more » Daniela Kaufer has reversed the effects of aging in mouse brains.
Catching a band of wildlife killers
On a frigid black nightin December 2016, Officer Tyler Bahrenburg stood in the garage of a rundown home in Longview, Washington, looking for the heads of two poached deer. The faint stench of death hung in the air of the building, a hoarder’s den of tools and refuse. Small drops of blood led out the back door. Bahrenburg, a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife game warden with an easygoing attitude, followed the narrow path they made out of the shop.
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Current Issue In this issue, our feature story looks at a massive poaching ring in Washington and Oregon and the determined investigators who took it down by tracking it digitally. We also scrutinize the Gadsden flag, the Revolutionary War-era symbol that’s become popular with anti-government figures.
The Race to Get Migrants out of Detention Before COVID Strikes
EVEN BEFORE THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS STRUCK, an urgent race was on to get migrants out of America’s overcrowded detention centers, where they were already at risk of abuse, malnutrition, a lack of medical resources, and insufficient access to legal services.
College Athletes Could Soon Cash In
IN NOVEMBER OF 2015, A FEW DAYS BEFORE the Big Game between UC Berkeley and Stanford, California State Sen. Nancy Skinner attended an Oakland Rotary Club meeting. That day, as it often does, the club was discussing athletics, and it had invited antitrust economist Andy Schwarz, a longtime critic of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Schwarz, “a Stanford guy,” shared the stage with the Cal Band, which played Cal songs, before he began his presentation.
State Leaders: There Is Hope For Hawaii’s Housing Crisis
Hawaii’s housing crisis is the abiding moral and economic challenge of our time — home prices are increasing faster than incomes. The number of people confronting housing insecurity is on the rise. April Estrellon/Civil Beat But we don’t need to look at the numbers to understand how rapidly the situation is deteriorating. All we have to do is talk to our family, friends, and neighbors. Some are sharing their homes with other families to cut housing costs.
US Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Will Continue, Despite Allegations of War Crimes
A body under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, in June 2015Hani Mohammed/AP “The United States is at war in Yemen today,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) during a Senate debate this morning over a bipartisan resolution seeking to block a $1.15 billion arms deal that would supply Saudi Arabia with Abrams tanks and an assortment other weaponry.
What You Need to Know About California’s Big Gun Ballot Initiative
“As a six-time Olympic medalist, I know it takes hard work to achieve success. For me, it also takes over 800 rounds of ammunition daily,” says Olympic shooter Kim Rhode in the second installment in a series of web ads opposing Proposition 63, a ballot initiative sponsored by California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom that would require background checks for buying ammunition and outlaw magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. It would not limit the quantity of ammunition people can buy.
Suspected US coalition airstrikes in Syria kill scores of civilians
Smoke rises from the Syrian city of Kobani following an airstrike by the US-led coalition in November 2014.Vadim Ghirda/AP Suspected airstrikes by the United States-led coalition in Syria recently killed at least 56 civilians, including 11 children, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Obama Years Have Been Very Good to America’s Weapons Makers
Blablo101/iStock (bag/tag), traffic_analyzer/iStock (flag) The Obama years have been a boom time for America’s weapons makers. Since 2009, the United States has approved arms deals worth some $200 billion—more than under any other presidency. The deals include sending Apache helicopters to Qatar, “bunker buster” bombs and cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia, and Hellfire missiles all over the place.
Measure will help Defense Department rid itself of child porn
The problem of child pornography has reached crisis levels. In all corners of the internet, images of child sexual abuse are being created, produced, and traded. Last year, more than 45 million online images and videos of child sexual abuse material were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The pain inflicted on these children is unimaginable.
The US is the only country in the world that locks up kids for life. Could that finally change?
Alexander Raths/Shutterstock Travion Blount was only 17 when a Virginia court dealt him six life sentences. Two years earlier, he’d robbed a group of teenagers with two older friends at gunpoint during a house party. They stole phones, money, marijuana, and purses. Blount hurt no one, but one of the older boys struck someone with the butt of his gun. Blount’s friends pled guilty and got 10 and 13 years. He went to trial instead, and when he lost, they sent him away to die in prison.
Here's how Congress cooperated to fight child sex abuse images on government computers
Sen. Brian Schatz and Sen. Lisa Murkowski The problem of child pornography has reached crisis levels. In all corners of the internet, images of child sexual abuse are being created, produced, and traded. Last year, more than 45 million online images and videos of child sexual abuse material were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The pain inflicted on these children is unimaginable.
Here's how Congress cooperated to fight child sex abuse images on government computers
OPINION Sen. Brian Schatz and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Opinion contributors Published 3:00 a.m. CT Dec. 19, 2019 The tools the U.S.military currently uses to block sharing of child pornography are outdated and ineffective. They don’t meet the problem's scale. The problem of child pornography has reached crisis levels. In all corners of the internet, images of child sexual abuse are being created, produced, and traded.
Vaping Illnesses Are on the Rise. Here’s What We Know So Far.
Every week the number jumps. The epidemic of a mysterious lung illness, first reported this spring, has swept across the nation, jumping from a few to more than 1,000 cases in 48 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released in early October.
These digital sleuths are sticking it to ISIS and the Kremlin
It was late 2014. Pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine had been attacking government forces, and the Russian military was massing along the border. And though the Kremlin was insisting that it wasn’t operating inside Ukraine, Eliot Higgins was uncovering strong evidence to the contrary—from the comfort of his desk.
As More Extremists Radicalize Online, Can Violence be Prevented?
The Christchurch mosque shooting was the clearest turning point: a mass murder that was, as the New York Times put it at the time, “of, and for, the Internet.” The gunman had teased the shooting on Twitter, announced it on the anonymous, fringe forum 8chan, a megaphone for extremist political views and hateful ideology, and it was live streamed on Facebook. On YouTube, Reddit, and elsewhere, the video of the shooting was repeatedly uploaded faster than the sites’ moderators could take it down.
Why the labor strike is back
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The largest private sector strike in more than a decade is now in its third week. The walkout of more than 49,000 General Motors auto workers comes on the heels of a series of successful strikes by workers around the country—teachers and nurses and beyond.
Sens. Schatz and Murphy: Trump won't act on Brazil's forest fires. Congress will ǀ View
For President Donald Trump, maintaining his personal friendship with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro — another right-wing leader with authoritarian tendencies — is seemingly more important than leading the charge against the disaster unfolding in Brazil. The lungs of the world are still on fire in the Amazon rainforests, and American citizens and policymakers cannot let this climate catastrophe continue unabated.
Opinion | Sens. Schatz and Murphy: Trump won't act on Brazil's forest fires. Congress will.
For President Donald Trump, maintaining his personal friendship with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro — another right-wing leader with authoritarian tendencies — is seemingly more important than leading the charge against the disaster unfolding in Brazil. The lungs of the world are still on fire in the Amazon rainforests, and American citizens and policymakers cannot let this climate catastrophe continue unabated.
This college student was kicked off a flight because he speaks Arabic. He's not the only one.
Khairuldeen Makhzoomi is an Iraqi refugee and a student at the University of California-Berkeley.Courtesy Khairuldeen Makhzoomi/Facebook The night before 26-year old Iraqi refugee Khairuldeen Makhzoomi was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight and interrogated by the FBI, he was at an event hosted by the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles, asking UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon about Popular Mobilization Units, the Shiite militia forces fighting against the so-called Islamic State in his...
The impractical, unsophisticated, very necessary long-shot campaign to unseat Nancy Pelosi
Courtesy Shahid Buttar for Congress For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones' newsletters. “I’m pretty sure,” says the man running to unseat Nancy Pelosi, “I am the only congressional candidate in the history of the republic who has spent time at Burning Man rhyming about the climate crisis and police violence and the role of immigrants in our community.” Shahid Buttar is laughing a little. He knows how it sounds.
Trump administration's 'scientific oppression' threatens US safety and innovation
Every time there is delay, suppression or manipulation of government science, Americans pay the price in their daily lives. Congress must act. Inside agencies and research offices across the U.S. government, independent science is under siege.
Trump administration's 'scientific oppression' threatens US safety and innovation
Paul Tonko and Brian Schatz , Opinion contributors Published 6:00 a.m. ET July 22, 2019 | Updated 12:53 p.m. ET July 23, 2019 Every time there is delay, suppression or manipulation of government science, Americans pay the price in their daily lives. Congress must act. Inside agencies and research offices across the U.S. government, independent science is under siege.
An intimate look at everything Duncan Hunter allegedly bought with campaign money
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) speaks during an interview at a call center on Nov. 6, 2018, in Santee, California. Denis Poroy/AP On the evening of Oct. 27, 2015, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) met up with a lobbyist he knew through the D.C. social scene at a political event held at the Hamilton Hotel in the nation’s capital. Theirs was a professional relationship; she had supported his congressional campaigns in the past, having organized fundraisers and events for him.
Israel’s Prime Minister Just Renamed a Controversial Settlement After Donald Trump
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveil the sign to inaugurate a new settlement named after President Donald Trump in the Golan Heights on Sunday, June 16, 2019.Ariel Schalit/AP On Sunday, Israel officially named a settlement in the disputed Golan Heights after President Donald Trump.
Trump campaign purges pollsters after devastating internal polling is leaked
President Donald Trump speaks about expanding health coverage options for small businesses and workers event at the White House on June 13, 2019.Oliver Contreras/AP Just two days before Trump will kick off his reelection bid inside a 20,000-person arena in Orlando, Florida, NBC News and the reported on Sunday that his campaign has purged three of its five pollsters after some bleak internal polls were leaked.
Trump Just Said He Wants a Poll on the “Dishonest” News Media. Polls Show People Trust Him Less.
Activists inflate a Donald Trump baby balloon in Los Angeles on October 18, 2018, ahead of a politically-themed convention.Richard Vogel/AP On Sunday morning, President Trump tweeted about the New York Times and the Washington Post, calling them “dishonest” and “deceitful,” while parroting his typical line of attack that he believes them to be the “Enemy of the People.” “A poll should be done on which…is worse,” he wrote.
Friends, Foes, and Frenemies: Who’s Fighting Whom in Syria
Russian soldiers ride through Aleppo, 2017Christian Werner Syria’s civil war doesn’t have two clearly defined sides. Hundreds of opposition groups have taken up arms against the Assad government—and sometimes each other. The conflict has also become a proxy war for countries including the United States, Russia, Iran, and Turkey. Not to mention the Kurds, Hezbollah, and ISIS.
California lawmakers just shelved their only bill focused on solving the housing shortage crisis
Builders work on an apartment complex in Sacramento, California.Rich Pedroncelli On the same day that a devastating new report on homelessness was released, California lawmakers shelved the only bill currently trying to tackle the state’s overwhelming housing shortage crisis. Senate Bill 50, California Sen.
What a Border Wall Would Do to the Texas Wilderness
Mariscal Canyon in Big Bend National Park, where the Wild & Scenic designation of the Rio Grande in Texas begins.Courtesy: The River and the Wall Riding horseback on a mustang he trained himself, Ben Masters is only 30 minutes into his backcountry traverse of Texas’ Big Bend, a wilderness area spanning hundreds of thousands of acres along the United States–Mexico border, when he dismounts and tells his group that the hill they’re descending is “definitely a walker.” The horses slip on scree...
Senators: Raise the legal tobacco age to 21
Brian Schatz is a Democratic senator from Hawaii and Todd Young is a Republican senator from Indiana. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the authors; view more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN) It's a nationwide epidemic that can no longer be ignored: the use of tobacco products, particularly e-cigarettes and vaping devices, among teenagers and young adults.
Devin Nunes’ 2020 Reelection Bid May Have Just Gotten a Lot Easier
Andrew Janz (left) and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)Mother Jones illustration In 2018, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) found himself in the reelection race of his life when Democratic challenger Andrew Janz, a 34-year-old Fresno prosecutor, launched a powerful grassroots campaign against him. Janz raised $9 million in the process, drawing national attention to his bid to unseat one of President Donald Trump’s main enablers in the House.
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