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.
Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has written over 20 books and has edited 13.