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Report Shows That Local Land Use Regulations Play a Key Role in Impeding Development of New Multi-Family Housing in California

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/09/19

According to traditional urban economic models, developers in well-functioning housing markets will choose to build apartments where land is expensive and housing demand is strong....
By: Miller Starr Regalia

Renewable Energy Update - August 2019 #5

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/09/19

Focus - Los Angeles has lined up record-cheap solar power. But there’s a problem - Los Angeles Times – August 27 - Los Angeles has been sitting on a contract for record-cheap solar power for more than a month, but the Board of Commissioners for...

Work Life Balance is How You Define it

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/09/19

JW Way Fundamental #24: Maintain a healthy work life balance - "Stay happier, healthier and more productive by balancing your time between billable hours, marketing, community activities, family, friends, emotional/spiritual well-being and physical...

News of Note for the Internet-Minded – Minecraft AI, GPS Tracking Transparency and Sweat Checks

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/09/19

What becomes of old (popular) Twitch channels, is Walmart getting into the virtual currency game, could 5G mean safer self-driving vehicles, and more …...

Rhode Island Obtains Federal Approval For A New Reinsurance Program For Health Insurance

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/09/19

Rhode Island has recently obtained federal approval for its application for a state innovation waiver under section 1332(c)(1) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Section 1332 of PPACA allows states to apply for a waiver from...

Yes, We Have to Confront Active Shooter Risks

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/09/19

Nobody wants to think about the risk of active shooters — yet all the time, we do just that.  You can see the results on Google Trends. Online searches for "active shooter" hovered at a low level for many years, until they started creeping upward in...

NCGA Week in Review - August 2019 #5

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/09/19

North Carolina lawmakers met this week to debate a variety of issues, from voting laws many hope will boost the state's confidence in the election process, to a press conference packed with legislative leadership and a guest appearance from U.S....

FHA Issues Final Rule on Single-Family Condominium Project Approval

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/09/19

FHA recently announced the issuance of its long-anticipated final rule allowing Project Approval for Single-Family Condominiums (Final Rule), effective October 15, 2019, which FHA estimates could result in a significant increase in the number of...

Subject Matter Patentability – To Treat? or Not To Treat?

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/09/19

To treat? Or not to treat? – that was the question in the Federal Circuit decision in the case of INO Therapeutics LLC v. Praxair Distribution Inc.1 (2018-1019). INO provides an interesting development in the patent eligibility of method of...

Is California’s McGill Rule Still Good Law?

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/09/19

On June 28, 2019, the Ninth Circuit held in three separate cases that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) does not preempt the California Supreme Court’s holding in McGill v. Citibank, N.A., 2 Cal.5th 945 (2017) — otherwise known as the “McGill rule”—...

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