Spool me once,, shame on you. Spool me twice...I won't get spooled again.
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- A new rule proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission would require companies to disclose the ratio of CEO pay compared to the pay of the average worker. If you want to submit a comment to the SEC in favor of this rule, you can do so through the AFL-CIO website.
- A California Republican describes the situation facing California Republicans:
“Over the last two decades, California’s working class has slowly migrated out of the state and Latino and women voters are completely disenfranchised with the Republican Party. There are only a few pockets of conservative voters left in the state and they are only able to help carry the day for Republicans in ultra-low turnout elections on issues where campaign spending is at parity or to the Republican advantage, and where the Democratic and union grass-roots apparatus is not activated,” Miller’s memo said.
“There is no good way to sugarcoat this. ... The Republican label is anathema to younger voters, women and Latinos -- growing voter blocs with real significance to future elections.”
Sounds about right.
- Oh, and the reason we know about that memo in the first place? It was part of a document dump related to an investigation by California's Fair Political Practices Commission, which ended up levying a $1 million fine against two Koch-funded nonprofits and seeking repayment of $15 million in donations that were improperly disclosed.
- Holy cow, San Francisco, the rent is too damn high:
Rents in San Francisco are escalating at breakneck clips this year, largely driven by an influx of tech workers. Oakland and San Jose likewise are seeing steep run-ups.
San Francisco's bigger apartment complexes saw average asking rents break the $3,000 mark in the third quarter, hitting a record $3,096 across all size units, according to data service RealFacts. That's an 11.9 percent bump from the same time last year.
Median asking rents for San Francisco apartments listed on www.livelovely.com clocked in at a record $3,398 in the third quarter, up 21 percent from 2012, said apartment-finding company Lovely.
"Rents are rising faster in San Francisco than almost anywhere else in the country," said Jed Kolko, chief economist with housing service Trulia. "Rising rents are a bigger challenge than rising home prices, especially in a place like San Francisco where buying is out of reach for many middle-class and lower-middle-class people."
Insane. I live in Los Angeles. I guess we're the low-rent district.
- Looks like mandatory admission fees will be coming to a famous New York museum near you.
- Because of the issues that healthcare.gov is having, there's a push to delay the close of the open enrollment period.
- What digby said.