Welcome to The Long View—where we peruse the news of the week and strip it to the essentials. Let’s work out what really matters. This week: Verizon fined for allegedly spreading disease, Bolt Financial repeats the mistakes of the past, and the founder of Yandex resigns. 1. NY AG vs. VZ: FIGHT! First up this week: Another summer, another outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York. The state’s Attorney General, Letitia James, has some harsh words to say about the maintenance record of… Source link
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There is no greater sleeping giant in all of college basketball than the University of Texas — a program so ripe with potential that it consistently attracts high-quality dreamers … who eventually leave vexed and frustrated. It’s been that way for, what, 70 years? For a long time, its best attribute was hiring Abe Lemons, whose actual name was just A.E. Lemons, two initials that stood for nothing so he inserted the “b”. A product of the Oklahoma dust bowl of the Great Depression, he used… Source link
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