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Idaho officials will spend more time in the courtroom over the state’s closed-doors decision to purchase the University of Phoenix after the Supreme Court on Thursday undid a lower court ruling to dismiss a lawsuit from Attorney General Raúl Labrador. The attorney general’s lawsuit accused the State Board of Education of violating state law by negotiating the purchase of the University of Phoenix in private. In a 4-1 victory for Labrador, the Supreme Court determined that a prior decision by Judge Jason Scott to reject the attorney general’s lawsuit was based on a misinterpretation of state law, and sent the case back down to the lower court for further review. The court also reversed a requirement that Labrador’s office pay nearly $250,000 in attorneys fees for the State Board. The case hinged on private meetings the State Board held to negotiate a potential purchase of the well-known online learning proprietor by the University of Idaho. While the state’s Open Meeting Law generally requires government business to be conducted publicly, “preliminary negotiations” for business deals that are “in competition with” other governments are exempt from the law. But the law states that exemption is supposed to be narrow. “We conclude that the district court erred in its expansive interpretation of these two phrases that provide only narrow exceptions to the general policy of transparency in the Open Meetings Law,” Justice Gregory W. Moeller wrote for the majority. Labrador called the decision a “comprehensive win.” “After 14 months of working to ensure transparency, this is a comprehensive win for the people of Idaho and the principles of open government,” he said in a statement Thursday. It’s unclear how further litigation will affect the possibility of a purchase, which state officials are still negotiating. Republican lawmakers, who will begin their next legislative session in January, have so far been hostile to the deal. In an email, State Board spokesperson Mike Keckler mostly declined to comment on the pending litigation but said the ruling was not a loss. University of Idaho spokesperson Jodi Walker said the school was reviewing the ruling and working “on next steps.” Representatives of the University of Phoenix did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Ruling ‘cloaks’ business dealings in secrecy In May 2023, the State Board approved a $500 million purchase of the University of Phoenix, using an estimated $685 million bond, at a public meeting that was announced the day before. Before that, board members held a series of private meetings to discuss the purchase, reportedly because they believed other state universities were also vying to acquire the private school. University of Idaho Chief Financial Officer Brian Foisy signed a non-disclosure agreement to discuss the sale with Phoenix’s representatives, which State Board members adhered to, according to the Idaho Supreme Court opinion. Administrators also began referring to the proposed deal as “Project Neptune” to keep their discussions private. After the State Board approved the purchase, Labrador sued, arguing that a private meeting before the deal was approved violated the Idaho Open Meeting Law. He later tried to expand his lawsuit to include other private negotiations. Scott sided with the State Board and limited how much information the board needed to disclose about its internal communications. Because the board members “reasonably” believed they were competing with other buyers, their private meetings were appropriate, the judge concluded. But the Supreme Court on Thursday took issue with Scott’s analysis, which allowed nearly all negotiations related to a competitive sale to occur in private. It also ruled that a “belief” that the State Board was competing with other universities is not enough to allow its private meetings to continue. Scott’s decision “effectively cloaks all negotiations and actions taken prior to a final public vote in shadow by broadening the very exceptions that the legislature required be narrowly construed,” Moeller wrote. Many times in his opinion, he also noted that relevant documents were unavailable in the record, because Scott had limited Labrador’s ability to obtain details about the State Board’s negotiations. “Because there is simply too much left unknown, undiscovered, and unaddressed about Project Neptune, there remain too many genuine issues of material fact” for the court to make a final determination, Moeller added. The Supreme Court was not asked to address Scott’s determination that Labrador be disqualified from the case. The State Board had argued that the board’s director held a private meeting with Labrador — who, as the attorney general, he believed to be his lawyer — only to see him sue the board afterward. Labrador has said he told the board’s director that he planned to file a lawsuit at the beginning of the meeting. In her dissent, Justice Colleen D. Zahn wrote that while she agreed with most of the majority opinion, its narrow interpretation of the phrase “preliminary negotiations” fails to allow agencies to compete with other potential buyers, and would make that exemption to the open meetings law “unusable.” This story was originally published December 5, 2024, 2:18 PM. University of Idaho extends its deadline for deal to finalize Phoenix purchase Idaho lawmakers just killed University of Phoenix purchase proposal. Will that doom it?
Share this Story : Ottawa man and woman face drug charges after south-end traffic stop Copy Link Email X Reddit Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Ottawa man and woman face drug charges after south-end traffic stop Ottawa police said the stop provided officers with grounds to search the vehicle for cannabis. Author of the article: Staff Reporter Published Dec 06, 2024 • Last updated 22 minutes ago • 1 minute read Join the conversation You can save this article by registering for free here . Or sign-in if you have an account. Ottawa Police Service file photo. Photo by Tony Caldwell / POSTMEDIA Article content Two Ottawa residents face several drug-related charges following a traffic stop by South Neighbourhood Resource Team police officers near Bank Street and Conroy Road on Thursday afternoon. Article content Article content In a release on Dec. 6, Ottawa police said the stop provided officers with grounds to search the vehicle for cannabis. 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Aliada's lead investigational asset is ALIA-1758, an anti-pyroglutamate amyloid beta (3pE-Aβ) antibody, which is in development for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and is currently in a Phase 1 clinical trial. ALIA-1758 utilizes a novel blood-brain barrier-crossing technology that enhances delivery of targeted drugs into the central nervous system. Johnson & Johnson (through its venture capital arm, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc.), RA Capital, and Raven (RA Capital's healthcare incubator) co-founded Aliada and co-led the series seed financing in 2021 to advance the MODELTM platform created by Johnson & Johnson scientists that was licensed to Aliada at its inception. "Congratulations to the Aliada and AbbVie teams and our fellow investors on the close of this transaction," said Joshua Resnick , MD, Senior Managing Director at RA Capital Management and former board director at Aliada. 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If you’ve ever thought Counter-Strike lacked cutthroat politics, you might want to keep an eye out for Alara Prime, the tactical 4v4v4 FPS entering closed alpha in early 2025. In a new trailer shown at today’s PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted you’ll get a peek at the game’s setup, which sees three squads of four players take turns defending a capture point while the other two squads try to kill them and take control. The attackers can work together to knock a leading team off their high horse, or spend so much time backstabbing one another the defenders win by default. It’s a solid minute of gameplay footage showing various tricks from four classes: assault, infiltrator, support, and engineer. Riot shields, flashbangs, surveillance cameras, and holographic decoys are all fair game as each team snakes between corridors. While nothing seems astonishingly different to what you’ll find in Valorant or Counter-Strike 2, it’s got a delicious extra layer of paranoia knowing you’ll either be thoroughly outnumbered or uncertain who you can trust. The cloaking device and wall-breaching charges shown in the trailer make it clear that devious tactics will help players turn around unfavorable odds—or just run the other two teams into each other. Beyond that it looks how you might expect, with plenty of the ol' aiming down sights and running up behind unsuspecting blokes for instant knife kills. A sleek, spacey aesthetic and clear affection for neon green do a bit to differentiate Alara Prime visually from the big two in the tactical shooter subgenre, though it's clear developer Fall Damage is anticipating those comparisons if these posts on X are any indication. Players who receive an invite to the closed test will get a hands-on look at how the three-team antics shake out very soon, but regardless, you can wishlist the game on Steam . The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
Pennsylvania State University will not charge ex-NFL star over an on-campus incident where he smashed a fan’s phone. The incident took place in November when the retired Philadelphia Eagles center was at Penn State University’s Beaver Stadium for ESPN’s broadcast as they took on Ohio State University. A viral video on X/Twitter showed a man yelling: “Hey, Kelce. How does it feel your brother’s a f***** dating Taylor Swift?” Kelce angrily , saying: “Who’s the f***** now?” A public information officer with the Penn State University Campus Police Department, Jacqueline Sheader, confirmed in a statement to that the investigation is now closed. “The individual in the video footage circulating on social media has not been identified, and no one has come forward to University Police with a related complaint about damage to personal property,” Sheader told the outlet. Following the incident, Kelce appeared on ESPN to for his actions. “I think everybody’s seen on social media everything that took place this week,” he said. “Listen, I’m not happy with anything that took place. I’m not proud of it. In a heated moment, I chose to greet hate with hate and I just don’t think that’s a productive thing, I really don’t. I don’t think it leads to discourse and it’s the right way to go about things. In that moment I fell down to a level that I shouldn’t have.” “The bottom line is, I try to live my life by the golden rule, that’s what I’ve always been taught,” he said. “I try to treat people with common decency and respect, and I’m going to keep doing that moving forward.” During an episode of his podcast with his younger brother, Travis Kelce, featured the two of them also . “You had some f***ing clown come up to you talking about your family,” the Kansas City Chiefs tight end said. “You reacted in a way that was defending your family and you might have used some words that you regret using.” Travis admitted at the time that the incident was “weighing on him” as more people continued to post about what had happened in addition to giving their opinion on it. Jason mentioned that he would only be talking about the incident one more time because he wanted to “stop talking about this really stupid situation.” The retired NFL player admitted he should have stayed quiet and kept walking to avoid giving the man any kind of attention. He said his biggest regret from the situation was repeating the slur that the fan had used. “It’s dehumanizing and it got under my skin and it elicited a reaction. In the heat of the moment, I thought, ‘Hey, what can I say back to him? I’m gonna throw this s*** right back into his face. F*** him,’” Jason said.U.S. stocks slipped below their records in the runup to a big jobs report due on Friday. The S&P 500 edged down 0.2% Thursday after setting an all-time high for the 56th time this year the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.6%, while the Nasdaq composite fell 0.2%. The crypto market had much more action, and bitcoin briefly burst to a record above $103,000 before falling back toward $99,000. It’s climbed dramatically since Election Day on hopes President-elect Donald Trump will be more friendly to crypto. Airline stocks were strong, while Treasury yields held relatively steady in the bond market. On Thursday: The S&P 500 fell 11.38 points, or 0.2%, to 6,075.11. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 248.33 points, or 0.6%, to 44,765.71. The Nasdaq composite fell 34.86 points, or 0.2%, to 19,700.26. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 30.39 points, or 1.3%, to 2,396.17. For the week: The S&P 500 is up 42.73 points, or 0.7%. The Dow is down 144.94 points, or 0.3%. The Nasdaq is up 482.09 points, or 2.5%. The Russell 2000 is down 38.56 points, or 1.6%. For the year: The S&P 500 is up 1,305.28 points, or 27.4%. The Dow is up 7,076.17 points, or 18.8%. The Nasdaq is up 4,688.91 points, or 31.2%. The Russell 2000 is up 369.10 points, or 18.2%.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency enhanced enforcement efforts this year, doubling financial penalties issued to polluters and issuing the first-ever arrest for a climate change-related crime, the agency said in a report Thursday. The EPA said it concluded more than 1,850 civil cases, a 3.4% increase over 2023, and charged 121 criminal defendants, a 17.6% increase over the previous year. The “revitalized enforcement and compliance efforts" resulted in the reduction or elimination of more than 225 million pounds of pollution in overburdened communities, the agency said in its final report on Biden-era enforcement actions before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. The agency said it issued $1.7 billion in fines and penalties, more than double the 2023 total and the highest level in seven years. Bolstered by 300 new employees hired since last year, the enforcement program focused on “21st century environmental challenges," including climate change, environmental justice and chemical waste, said David Uhlmann, EPA's assistant administrator for enforcement and compliance assurance. More than half the agency’s inspections and settlements involved poor and disadvantaged communities long scarred by pollution, reflecting the Biden administration’s emphasis on environmental justice issues . Enforcement efforts included first-ever criminal charges for a climate change-related crime. A California man was charged in March with smuggling climate-damaging air coolants into the United States. The case involved hydrofluorocarbons, a highly potent greenhouse gas also known as HFCs, a gas once commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners. A 2020 law passed by Congress prohibits importation of HFCs without allowances issued by the EPA. The law is part of a global phaseout designed to slow climate change. Uhlmann called enforcement of the HFC law a high priority for the United States and the world. “Alongside methane, HFCs are one of the most significant near-term drivers of climate change. And the criminal program is front and center there,'' he said. In other highlights, engine maker Cummins Inc. paid more than $2 billion in fines and penalties — and agreed to recall 600,000 Ram trucks — as part of a settlement with federal and California authorities. Cummins was found to use illegal software that let Ram trucks — manufactured by Stellantis — to skirt diesel emissions tests for nearly a decade. The fine is the largest ever secured under the federal Clean Air Act. The EPA and Justice Department also reached a $241.5 million settlement with Marathon Oil for alleged air quality violations at the company’s oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The settlement requires Marathon to reduce climate- and health-harming emissions from those facilities and will result in over 2.3 millions tons worth of pollution reduction, officials said. Uhlmann, who was confirmed as head of the enforcement office last year, said in an interview that with the help of a spending boost approved by Congress, the agency has made “consequential changes in how we approach enforcement at EPA.'' “We’ve revitalized an enforcement program that suffered more than a decade of budget cuts and was badly hampered by the (COVID-19) pandemic,'' he said. The agency also weathered a series of actions by former President Donald Trump’s administration to roll back environmental regulations and reduce overall staffing. “We’ve strengthened the partnership between the criminal and civil programs, and we’ve also focused on moving our cases with greater urgency so that we provide meaningful results to communities in time frames that make sense to the people who are harmed when unlawful pollution occurs,” Uhlmann said. With Trump set to return to the White House, Uhlmann said he hoped enforcement would not suffer, noting that a host of civil and criminal investigations begun in the past two years could bear fruit in 2025 and beyond. Trump, who has named former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin to be EPA administrator, has said he will again slash regulations and target what he calls onerous rules on power plants, factories and oil and natural gas production. Uhlmann declined to speculate on how enforcement will change under Trump but said, “Upholding the rule of law and making sure that polluters are held accountable and communities are protected from harmful pollution is not a partisan matter. We do enforcement at EPA based on the law, based on the facts, without regard to politics. “So, you know, communities should expect that EPA will continue to protect them from harmful pollution."
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