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2 weeks ago | boondoggle.substack.com | Pat Garofalo

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up. Thanks!California Attorney General Rob Bonta and state Sen. Ben Allen last week unveiled a bill — SB 799 — that would enhance the Golden State’s ability to pursue tax fraud cases against dominant corporations and wealthy individuals.

3 weeks ago | boondoggle.substack.com | Pat Garofalo

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up. Thanks!Regular readers here know there is a clear connection between corporate subsidies — specific corporations receiving public money for specific actions, such as opening a warehouse or a factory somewhere — and corruption in the political system.

4 weeks ago | boondoggle.substack.com | Pat Garofalo

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up. Thanks!Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin this week vetoed — for the second time — a bill that would create a state prescription drug affordability board.

1 month ago | boondoggle.substack.com | Pat Garofalo

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up. Thanks!Last week, Arizona State Sen. Eva Burch, who represented the state’s 9th Legislative District, resigned, effective this Friday.

1 month ago | boondoggle.substack.com | Pat Garofalo

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up.