L. A. Metro will boycott North Carolina conference

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Following a national outcry over a North Carolina law that restricts protections for transgender people, the head of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has effectively barred agency employees from traveling to Charlotte, N.C., for a conference.

No Metro employees will receive agency funds to travel to an American Public Transportation Assn. conference in May, Chief Executive Phil Washington wrote in an email to staff, adding that Metro has "zero tolerance" for discrimination.

About 20 Metro employees were planning to attend the conference, Metro spokeswoman Joni Goheen said.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-mta-bathroom-bill-north-carolina-20160408-story.html

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1. NC is up to something like 5,000 hotel room-nights

gone missing in the next month or so. That's a lot of cancelled reservations, and a hit to the state's coffers.