Council members haven’t had the power to vote for or against their own pay raises since a 2018 ballot measure that tied their compensation — including any raises — directly to the salaries of state Superior Court judges.
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David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 May 2025
This has been observed across various settings, from judges giving less favorable rulings later in the day to professionals like nurses and air traffic controllers showing reduced cognitive sharpness when mentally depleted.
Any serious observer of foreign policy knows that the U.S. intelligence community is renowned for its research and documentation of genocide.
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Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
27 May 2025
Li, had helped build a major data infrastructure and processing system for Wachovia, then one of America's largest banks, and had been a keen observer of startups like WeChat and Alibaba that had transformed payments and banking in his native China.
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