Office Space
What to know: Downtown Texas is experiencing an exodus of employers and employees. Bad policy is to blame.
The TPPF take: Wokeness, not work models, is to blame for the glut of office space in big city centers.
“Given the affordability, livability, and mobility crises plaguing progressive cities today, it’s no wonder that employers are leaving city centers for cheaper, safer, and more accessible locations to set up shop,” says TPPF’s James Quintero. “So rather than blame work models, it’s more accurate to lay it at the feet of wokeness.”
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Artificial Intelligence
What to know: President Joe Biden has issued an “ambitious” executive order on artificial intelligence, the Associated Press is reporting.
The TPPF take: Perhaps his EO is a little too ambitious.
“President Biden’s new A.I. executive order is taking a page out of the Big Tech playbook by moving fast and breaking things,” says TPPF’s Zach Whiting. “However, the nonsense and inconsistencies permeating across these new regulations are breaking more than just news headlines.”
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Bellwether
What to know: One key Pennsylvania county could affect the U.S. presidential election in 2024.
The TPPF take: That’s why election reform in Bucks County is so important to you and me.
“Since the 2020 election, the county has received complaints about late election returns, meaningful poll-watcher observation, processing absentee ballot envelopes and provisional ballots, ballot shortages, issues with e-poll books, and other issues,” says TPPF’s Josh Findlay. “These allegations are not unlike those made in other Pennsylvania counties, but what is notable is the county’s response: increasing transparency and security. One of these major procedural improvements comes in the form of granting greater observation access to poll watchers.”
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