July 12, 2019

12 Aug July 12, 2019

Top News

• Acosta to Resign as Labor Secretary Over Jeffrey Epstein Plea Deal. New York Times
• Tom Steyer launches 2020 campaign after saying he wouldn’t. Associated Press
• Trump Opts for Federal Records Analysis Over Citizenship Question on 2020 Census. Route Fifty
• The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics. Politico

Energy, Natural Resources, & Agriculture

• 24 Governors Call on Trump to Halt Rollback on Rules for Clean Cars. New York Times
• PG&E Knew for Years Its Lines Could Spark Wildfires, and Didn’t Fix Them. Wall Street Journal
• EPA Clarifies Its Enforcement Relationship With States. Bloomberg BNA

Indian Affairs

• Sioux City’s Orpheum to host presidential candidate forum on Native American issues in August. Sioux City Journal
• Proposal would repeal US laws that hurt Native Americans. Associated Press
• Wyoming Lawmakers Consider Allowing Tribal IDs For Voter Registration. Wyoming Public Media

Labor

• Unemployment Is Low, but That’s Only Part of the Story. New York Times
• NLRB’s Emanuel Should Sit Out McDonald’s Case, Leaked Records Say. Bloomberg Law
• AFL-CIO leadership: the two women vying to be America’s top labor official. The Guardian
• GE Union Workers Reject New Labor Deal. Wall Street Journal
• A $15 minimum wage could lift 1.3 million out of poverty — and cost 1.3 million jobs. Vox
• Amazon invests $700 million to retrain a third of its US workforce by 2025. TechCrunch

Taxation, Trade, & Defense

• Trump administration launches unfair trade practices probe of French tech tax. Politico
• White House Touts Help For Poor Areas — But Questions Endure Over Who’ll Benefit. NPR
• China imports from US plunge 31% in June amid tariff war. Associated Press

Technology

• Ohio driverless vehicle test-track, touted as industry’s biggest, now open. Cleaveland.com
• This Lidar Is So Cheap It Could Make Self-Driving A Reality. Wired
• What Will Local Government Look Like in Space? Route Fifty
• Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Electric Cars. New York Times

Transportation & Infrastructure

• Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It. The Atlantic
• Complete Streets bill introduced in Congress. Smart Cities Dive
• Key Senators Pledge to Move on Federal Highway Bill This Summer. Route Fifty
• DeFazio: GAO finds lack of safety data on longer trains. Progressive Railroading
• Cities Need Affordable Housing, but Builders Want Big Profits. Can It Work? New York Times
• Public Transit Agencies Think Rewards Programs Can Bring Back Riders. Wired