#Apple investors urged to vote down Tim Cook’s 0M payday

#Apple investors urged to vote down Tim Cook’s $100M payday

“#Apple investors urged to vote down Tim Cook’s $100M payday” Tim Cook’s nearly $100 million payday as CEO of Apple is just too much, a company that advises shareholders said Wednesday. It advised Apple shareholders to vote against Cook’s big-time payday, flagging “significant concern” about his $82 million in stock awards for 2021, according to…

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#Biden order bans investment in Chinese defense, tech firms

#Biden order bans investment in Chinese defense, tech firms

“#Biden order bans investment in Chinese defense, tech firms” President Biden has signed an executive order that expands a Trump-era ban on US investment in dozens of Chinese companies with alleged ties to defense or surveillance technology sectors, citing “unusual and extraordinary threats.” The White House said in a statement that the order will “ensure…

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#Cuomo office ignored rules to reroute sex-harass complaint: report

#Cuomo office ignored rules to reroute sex-harass complaint: report

“#Cuomo office ignored rules to reroute sex-harass complaint: report” Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s aides ignored his own executive order requiring formal investigations of sexual harassment complaints against state employees, when it came to a complaint against their boss, according to a report Thursday. Under terms of the order, a June complaint against Cuomo by then-executive assistant…

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#No ‘unity’ in Biden’s executive orders: Goodwin

#No ‘unity’ in Biden’s executive orders: Goodwin

“#No ‘unity’ in Biden’s executive orders: Goodwin” It is early, far below the traditional threshold of 100 days. Still, watching the major missteps of the Biden administration reminds that even presidents don’t get a second chance to make a first impression.  My expectations were low, but not low enough. I hoped, naively, that with political…

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#NY Dem wants legislature to reconsider Cuomo’s COVID powers

#NY Dem wants legislature to reconsider Cuomo’s COVID powers

“#NY Dem wants legislature to reconsider Cuomo’s COVID powers” A top New York Democrat wants state lawmakers to reconsider Gov. Cuomo’s COVID-19 powers in light of the state attorney general’s report that found the state undercounted nursing home coronavirus deaths. State Sen. Liz Krueger, chair of the state Senate Finance Committee, also said Tuesday night…

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#Biden’s embrace of equity means an abandoned quest for equality

#Biden’s embrace of equity means an abandoned quest for equality

“#Biden’s embrace of equity means an abandoned quest for equality” President Biden preaches unity but practices division. Witness his “Executive ­Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,” part of an unprecedented barrage of such orders. It calls for “an ­ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda” that smacks of a Great Society for…

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