A Sunday night deadline loomed as JPMorgan and PNC were said to be interested in acquiring the troubled lender after it is seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

The FDIC move came less than two hours after a decision by tech funding giant SV Financial Group, parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, to halt trading shortly after markets opened this morning on NASDAQ – after its stock collapsed in 24 hours from $176.55 to $39.25 per share – sent shock waves across financial markets worldwide.

None of this would have been a problem if the cannabis industry, like every other legal business in the U.S., had access to banking.

As the greed continues to eat away at the health care system, the only humane path forward is Medicare for all. 

Companies vying to build President Trump’s border wall include some unlikely contenders, such as an immigrant-run startup in Sunnyvale.

Mayor Chuck Reed sat down with the Wall Street Journal for a Q&A article published today, and the responses were strikingly similar to the State of the City Address he delivered last Thursday.