NYPD Gets More Oversight, House of Cards Tax Credit Fight in Maryland Gets Nasty, Walmart Sues Visa: P.M. Links

  • When corporate giants collide.New York City has appointed its
    first inspector general for the police department, part of the

    oversight reforms
    that ex-mayor Michael Bloomberg and the
    police department resisted.
  • Producers of political power fantasy House of Cards
    threaten to move filming of their show out of Maryland if they
    don’t get more tax credits. In response, some Maryland lawmakers

    threaten to use eminent domain
    to seize the film company’s
    property if they try. Nothing like seeing two horrible government
    policies used against each other.
  • Attorney General Eric Holder says the federal government

    will recognize about 300 gay marriages
    performed in Michigan
    between the time a judge struck the ban down and a stay of the
    ruling was put into place. Michigan’s governor said the state will
    not recognize them for now.
  • Walmart is
    suing Visa for $5 billion
    , claiming the credit card company is
    conspiring with banks to jack up the credit card processing fees
    retailers have to pay.
  • In Orange County, Calif., 21 residents have been
    diagnosed with measles
    this year, its worst outbreak in 20
    years. Seven have been hospitalized.
  • Protests followed the news that Egyptian military chief
    Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi will
    run for president
    . Three people, including a journalist, were
    killed in clashes.

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