It has staunchly avoided the gold standard of background checks, the type required for taxi drivers in most California cities: Live Scans. No ridesharing companies -- Uber, Lyft, or Sidecar -- do them. Anyone following Pando's ridesharing coverage has seen me harp and harp and harp on the importance of Live Scans.
SEATTLE, Nov. 27â Paul Westphal was fired today as the coach of the struggling Seattle SuperSonics after disagreements with some of his star players.hree years later, after 33 games that season, he was fired by the Suns. Photo: Paul Westphal, left, was dismissed as the SuperSonics coach only days after an on-court shouting match with the All-Star guard Gary Payton.
Since taking the helm at CIRM in April 2014, Mills has radically changed the way the agency does business by implementing CIRM 2.0 - an aggressive plan that significantly reduces the amount of time it takes to approve funding for promising stem cell research and potential stem cell therapies.