Across California's tourism hotspots, local governments are effectively extorting visitors and convention-goers through aggressive hotel-specific minimum wage laws. These mandates – sold as “living wage” protections – are designed to extract higher room rates, fees, and taxes from out-of-town travelers to fund dramatic pay hikes for hotel workers. The result? Early data show clear job losses.

How artificial intelligence is turning science fiction into everyday reality — and what it means for all of us. Soon drones that work in the air, seas and land will be entirely autonomous prepared to address threats based on programmed instructions. 400–800 million jobs worldwide could vanish by 2030. Machines are becoming sentient -- able to learn without a complex set of instructions. The machines, watch, listen, find data, try, fail and learn all at a pace no human can mat