R Street welcomes Jerry Theodorou as director of Finance, Insurance and Trade Policy Program
WASHINGTON (March 16, 2021) R Street is excited to welcome Jerry Theodorou as the director of the Finance, Insurance and Trade Policy Program.
In this capacity, Theodorou develops and advances effective, free market-oriented research and public policy solutions that deal with risk and other complex products where federal and state governments have intervened. He will continue work on R Street’s priorities including risk-based insurance regulation, reforming the National Flood Insurance Program, free trade, and financial products and institutions.
“R Street’s reputation for objective research into pragmatic public policy solutions to matters impacting insurance is unparalleled. I’m excited to join R Street at a time when insurance can help address today’s trifecta of challenges to our economy and health a pandemic, catastrophic weather events and mushrooming cyber threats,” said
‘We’re getting Zoom bombed’; Racial slurs shouted, swastika written on screen during Longmeadow meeting
Updated Feb 06, 2021;
The problems of 2020 have continued into 2021.
Amid a discussion on actively recruiting more diverse candidates for municipal positions in the town of Longmeadow, a term that became all too familiar last year was the new topic of discussion.
“We’re getting Zoom bombed,” said coalition member Ryan McCollum amid a series of outbursts from at least one attendee.
Longmeadow Coalition for Racial Justice Task Force, a group formed to identify areas of systemic racism in the Western Massachusetts town, held a public meeting on Thursday on Zoom. During the meeting, a series of racial slurs were shouted then the screen was marked with a swastika and the phrase “[expletive] n ”