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Is Elon Musk’s $1 million payouts to voters legal? | USA Today

He wasn’t alone. Rick Hasen, a law professor at University of California Los Angeles, said in a blog post that he believes the program appears to violate the law. “Though maybe some of the other things Musk was doing were of murky legality, this one is clearly illegal,” Hasen wrote. (Hasen was also featured by NPR’s “Morning Edition,” NBC News, Salon, Futurism, BBC News, Time, Al Jazeera and MSNBC.)

Many Californians won’t vote for school board | EdSource

“One of the dynamics that’s been playing out has been people reluctant to hold onto their seats, and then people are reluctant to run for office because there’s a lot of hostility out there, and sometimes threatening behavior that are prompting either existing school board members or potential school board members to rethink whether or not they want to hold this office,” said John Rogers, director of the Institute for Democracy, Education and Access at UCLA.