DC DISPATCH w/ Sara Corcoran

DC DISPATCH-Located 20 to 30 minutes away from downtown Shanghai, China, Pudong is the city’s most industrialized and developed suburb, its streets lined with office buildings, hotels, and other commercial real estate. 

DC DISPATCH-Attorney General Barr took center stage in D.C. last week when he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Mueller Report. 

DC DISPATCH-By most measures, Carlos Ghosn was a successful man. With a reputation for recapitalizing and restructuring several large multinational companies like Michelin and Renault, Ghosn amassed a fortune of over 100 million dollars over the course of his career.

DC DISPATCH--Statistically speaking, traveling by plane is the safest mode of transportation. However, when there’s a system challenge in flight, a pilot’s ability to quickly identify and respond to the issue can often be the difference between life and death.

DC DISPATCH-Nationwide, including California, agricultural interests are likely breathing a collective sigh of relief after a North Carolina jury awarded a relatively low judgement to 10 plaintiffs in that state’s latest round of “nuisance” hog farm lawsuits.

DC DISPATCH-On February 11, L. Lin Wood, an Atlanta based lawyer, filed a complaint in conjunction with Kentucky based lawyer, Todd McMurtry, in the Eastern District of Kentucky against the Washington Post (Wapo).

DC DISPATCH-Recently, North Carolina has been making national headlines for its tawdry and tainted congressional election, but for some observers, an equally interesting civil courts drama is playing out in the Tar Heel state: Iconic big-money asbestos lawyers are now driving hog farm lawsuits. Word is, California is on their lawsuit radar. 

DC DISPATCH-On Wednesday, February 27, I left my house at 630 a.m. and headed over to the Rayburn House Office Building to be an eyewitness to history.

DC DISPATCH-The inherent conflict between labor and management is a timeless struggle that America has grappled with since the Industrial Revolution.

DC DISPATCH--Every 3rd week in January, the “.02%” take over Washington DC to host their annual dinner at the Capital Hilton. Established in 1913, the Alfalfa Club cultivates its membership of elite powerbrokers from all over the United States. 

DC DISPATCH-Waking up on the east coast, as I have done for most of the past seven hundred and forty plus days of Trump's presidency, in shock and awe.

DC DISPATCH-I had a conversation with a former Republican Senior military officer yesterday about allegations that Trump was looking into withdrawing the United States from NATO.

DC DISPATCH-Last week, the White House shed its sole adult member of management, General Mattis, who resigned in principle over President Trump’s premature decision to remove U.S. presence in Syria.

DC DISPATCH--Perhaps lost in the recent news cycles, obstructed by the 24/7 Trump-Tweet buzz, was that the discredited cultural experiment of national alcohol prohibition reached the 85^th anniversary of its dissolution.

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, on Thursday, spent one of the toughest days of her life being quizzed in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee as the nation watched.

DC DISPATCH--Christine Blasey Ford just came forth with allegations of sexual assault against Judge Kavanaugh and I believe her claims to be true.

DC DISPATCH-As the former head of the CIA, NSA and with his extensive military experience, General Michael Hayden has had an illustrious career in the shadowy world of intelligence.

DC DISPATCH-Land, Air, Sea, and Space used to be the battlegrounds where wars were fought.

DC DISPATCH--The news of a suicide invites reactions of shock, but quickly settles intodismay and confusion.

DC DISPATCH--“So far, the story of the talc litigation has mostly been about two things—the science and the choice of forum,” said Howard Erichson, a professor at Fordham University School of Law, quoted in the National Law Journal. 

D.C. DISPATCH-(Editor’s Note: Alan Lowenthal is United States Congressman for California’s 47^thDistrict … which is centered in Long Beach and extends through western Orange county. This interview with Mr. Lowenthal is the second of a two-part series. Part one was published on May 14.)