Uber Tears Through the Public Square

<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-abd7310e-7fff-8993-0067-ba19ab5e69e6" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Washington DC was the sixth city where Uber began operations, but it is here that the Big Tech firm was best able to mold the regulatory environment to its needs. Sunil Dasgupta talks with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh, two authors of the local fall book to read,</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Local news: Rabbi Yosef Goldman of Shaare Torah</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on antisemitic vandalism,</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> DC's AG sues landlords and tech firm Real Page for price-fixing (</span><a href="https://t.ly/5sUvF" style="text-decoration: none;"><span>https://t.ly/5sUvF</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">); Gaithersburg council elections, amicus briefs in the LGBTQ books opt-out lawsuit (</span><a href="https://t.ly/kbun1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span>https://t.ly/kbun1</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">;</span> <a href="https://t.ly/GX2UK" style="text-decoration: none;"><span> https://t.ly/GX2UK</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). Music from Oren Levine:</span> <a href="https://ohljazz.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span> https://ohljazz.com/</span></a> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Disrupting DC:</span> <a href="https://a.co/d/3sKbFzH" style="text-decoration: none;"><span> https://a.co/d/3sKbFzH</span></a></p>