When California legislated to treat gig workers as employees, the gig-work companies spent enormous sums to mislead the public into override that decision. Now they are preparing to do it again in Massachusetts.

These companies mistreat passengers as well as drivers. The food delivery companies mistreat restaurants, too.

It would be great if making them pay decent money made those companies disappear, but I don't expect that to happen. I think they are exaggerating for effect.

*Colombian top general Mario Montoya faces murder charges in "false positives" scandal.*

Chemical manufacturers have undermined the integrity of the EPA. They can apply so much pressure to approve a chemical that the agency does not dare disobey or even hesitate.

We must make sure that the EPA can do its job. As a first step, the EPA should eliminate all promises of confidentiality to manufacturers. Such commitments give the companies too much power. Instead, the EPA must always reserve the right to show the public all that it knows about a chemical's effects.

The only kind of confidentiality that it has a duty to respect is about the individual subjects in a medical experiment.

Various large banks plan to buy coal power plants in Asia and shut them down — in 15 years!

15 years is too late. The purchase could easily backfire, as these new owners would have an interest in operating the plants as long as they are profitable.

The incoming governor of New York says she will eliminate the "toxic culture" that Governor Cuomo created, and used to pressure women for sex.

That is the right thing to about the point. However, I wonder where Governor Hochul stands on issues of plutocracy and confronting business power.