Posts Tagged: expedite

PUC should speedily okay Verizon’s purchase of TracFone

A smart phone user with his device. (Photo: TK Studio, via Shutterstock)

by PAT FONG KUSHIDA and JULIAN CANETE posted 03.11.2021

OPINION: With the continued struggles exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vitally important for consumers, especially historically underserved consumers and business communities to have access to reliable and affordable mobile services.

In November, questions of life and death

The execution chamber at San Quentin prison. (Photo: CDCR)

by ALEX MATTHEWS posted 07.01.2016

Will November mark the death of the death penalty? This fall, Californians will be asked yet again whether they would like to abolish capital punishment. Voters last faced the issue in 2012, a presidential election year, and rejected the idea.