The all-Republican Board of Supervisors of Orange County in California is poised next Tuesday to adopt one of the nation’s most aggressive and enlightened policies to open the doors for all passengers flying in and out of John Wayne International Airport to be able to arrive and leave the airport easily via ride-sharing companies such as Uber, Lyft and Sidekick.
Uber, the ride-sharing service that lets customers summon transportation using a smartphone application, has announced it will make good on its threat to cease doing business in San Antonio, Breitbart Texas has learned. The San Antonio City Council passed a new ordinance last December in a 7-2 vote, to be effective on March 1, and Uber says that if the ordinance is allowed to go into effect, they will leave the city.
The Chicago Police Department arrested 30-year-old driver Uber driver Maxime Fohounhedo and charged him with one count of criminal sexual assault and one count of criminal sexual abuse for allegedly assaulting a 22-year-old woman in his apartment on November 16.
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said when he forced a weekend vote on President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration he was “not trying to play the Washington rules,” but instead
11.35 AM UPDATE by Jordan Schachtel: Channel 7 Australia reports gunman, one hostage killed in exchange that ended the siege: Seven News has been told that the two dead are the gunman and a hostage. The hostage killed by the
AUSTIN, Texas — The San Antonio City Council is considering regulations that may force ride-sharing company Uber to cease its operations in the city, according to a letter Uber emailed to the City Council on Sunday. According to a report
The number of taxi rapes and sexual assaults–in which largely immigrant, mainly Muslim drivers have raped or sexually harassed infidel girls and women, have been on the rise in Europe, particularly in England, Sweden, and Germany. But there have been similar taxi rapes and/or sexual
Delhi’s government on Monday banned Uber from operating in the Indian capital after a passenger accused one of its drivers of rape, dealing a fresh blow to the online taxi company’s public image. The popular but controversial service has come
The Uber ride-sharing app suffered its first U.S. state-wide ban last week when a Washoe County, Nevada court made a preliminary ruling that the company operates “in all ways” like a taxi business. Uber suspended all operations in Nevada and
“Events in the course of the war have today taken a turn not necessarily to the advantage of the Empire of Japan.” In those uber-euphemistic words, couched in court Japanese to soften their brutal meaning, Emperor Hirohito broadcast to his
AUSTIN, Texas — The Lone Star State has a well-deserved reputation for being business-friendly, but when it comes to regulating ride-sharing services — the alternatives to traditional transportation options like taxis and shuttles — Texas cities get only mediocre grades.
Some people call it “renewable energy” but I prefer to call it “alternative energy” because that’s what it really is: an alternative to energy that actually works (eg nuclear and anything made from wonderful, energy-rich fossil fuel.) Now a pair
The fallout is still mounting over the November 17 BuzzFeed piece alleging that an executive of Uber said that his company should do opposition research on recalcitrant journalists and release their personal information to the public. But now the scrutiny
Fancy predicting the future under an Ed Miliband administration? Well, look no further than Labour-run Camden Council at present. Proudly serving their 229,000 constituents (or just 56 of them, as we shall read later) since gaining control of the Town
On Monday night, Ben Smith’s BuzzFeed ran a lengthy hit piece against car service Uber. Smith smacked around senior Uber executive Emil Michael for supposedly claiming seriously that Uber would monitor the private lives of journalists: A senior executive at
A few days ago, BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith had a big scoop revealing that a senior Uber executive thought it would be a good idea to do opposition research on journalists and expose their private information to the public. But it
Wednesday on Bloomberg TV’ “Bloomberg West,” PandoDaily Founder and Editor-In-Chief Sarah Lacy detailed recent stories about Uber executive Emil Michael’s commnets at a dinner with prominent journalists that Uber had plan to hire top opposition researchers and go after journalists families
Senior Uber executive Emil Michael thought it would be a good idea to dig up personal information on journalists who oppose the Uber empire and publish it–with focus on a particular female journalist–but later “apologized” for his suggestion of such
Liberal George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley believes that President Barack Obama’s forthcoming executive amnesty will be an “unprecedented” and “dangerous” overreach that will threaten America’s constitutional system of governance. “This would be unprecedented and I think it would
Britain’s experimental badger cull has been a surprising success. Not that you’d guess this from any of the headlines in the papers. They’re all focusing on the official figures showing that for each 1,879 badgers shot by marksmen last year
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) targeted those in the government who favor “net neutrality” in a cogent essay printed in The Washington Post. Cruz stated, “The Internet is the great equalizer when it comes to jobs and opportunity. We should make
HOUSTON, Texas — Breitbart Texas has obtained a memo from Houston’s Administration of Regulatory Affairs (ARA), addressed to Mayor Annise Parker, which reveals that city taxpayers will shell out almost $600,000 per year to enforce ordinances that apply to the transportation companies Lyft and Uber.
The head of Pennsylvania’s Taxi Association implied that he knows the suffering of displaced Christians, beheaded Shias, and sex-trafficked Yazidis in Iraq and Syria, because ride-sharing telephone app Uber has arrived in town. “I try to equate this illegal operation
A new device from the Burglinghame, California-based startup Breathometer, called the Breeze, is a breathalyzer that lets drivers with smartphones learn if they are intoxicated before getting pulled over by police. It even lets them summon an Uber if they
This article was originally posted by Piers Morgan at Mail Online. Dr Craig Spencer, New York’s first confirmed Ebola patient, is an exceptionally brave man. I have unlimited admiration for members of Doctors Without Borders, like him, who risk their
In a decision that is sure to inflame San Francisco politics, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District Charles Breyer ruled Tuesday a San Francisco law requiring landlords to pay displaced tenants the difference between current rent and the amount needed to
Who would have thought that taxis would become the vector for much of the biggest issues facing modern politics? Migration, globalism, societal breakdown, identity… sexual abuse is just one of them. We see the skirmishes between London Hackney Cabs and
New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett reported that New York City Ebola patient Dr. Craig Spencer rode the subway in New York after he returned from Guinea at a press conference on Thursday. “We know that during the
Thursday evening on CNN’s “OutFront with Erin Burnett,” Burnett reported that the New York City doctor who is reportedly showing symptoms of Ebola after having recently travelled to West Africa did not self-quarantine himself after becoming ill. “Investigators are taking
AUSTIN, Texas — The R Street Institute, a non-profit, free market think tank with offices in Washington, D.C., Florida, California, Ohio, and Texas, is ramping up its efforts in the Lone Star State, hiring a new Texas state director and
In the unlikeliest of scenarios, the hardline leftist Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021 is essentially supporting a GOP candidate for a seat on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board of Directors. James Fang, a Republican, is running
Uber has fallen foul of French law and is facing a fine of €100,000 after judges ruled that it was engaging in “deceptive business practices” by marketing UberPOP, as a ridesharing service. The Paris court found that, by charging a
A new app that lets medical marijuana patients in the Bay Area tap a few buttons on their phone to receive high-quality medicine at their door hit the Google Play Store this week. The app, called “Meadow,” is the latest
The Los Angeles and San Francisco district attorney offices have threatened ride-sharing companies Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar with legal action after claiming the companies are operating illegally and present “a continuing threat to consumers and the public.” According to the
“Entrepreneur” is a French word for one who gets in the middle between a buyer and a seller. In the last couple of years, Silicon Valley start-ups such as Uber valued at $18 billion, Airbnb valued at $10 billion, and
Rep. Darrell Issa (R- California) is the wealthiest member of Congress for a second straight year, with a minimum net worth of $327.25 million, according to Roll Call‘s annual “50 Richest Members of Congress” report. Issa, who made his fortune
1. Florida State 1-0: After a less than stellar opening performance, the Seminoles still possess the trifecta (uber-talented, have the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, and play in the friendly ACC) that keeps them in the top spot. 2. Oregon 1-0: Marcus Mariota
The running global battle between traditional, unionised taxi drivers and insurgent chauffeur service Uber continues apace as a court battle in Frankfurt has foisted a nationwide ban on the company, with a €250,000 fine if they continue to accept bookings.
It has been nearly 20 years since California passed Proposition 215, the landmark bill that created the nation’s first medical marijuana market. Since that time, 22 states and the District of Columbia have joined California in putting medical marijuana laws
On Friday, the California State Assembly outdid itself. You can always count on the leftist leaders of what is supposed to be the “people’s house” never lets a crisis go to waste. With the passage of AB 1739 (Dickinson-D), SB
