Category Archives: Policy

Dying veteran protests Spirit Airlines’ no-refund policy

By doris | Published: April 26, 2012

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com Jerry Meekins, who is battling cancer, has a new foe: Spirit Airlines. Meekins recently purchased an airline ticket from Spirit Airlines to visit his daughter in New Jersey. “Two weeks after I bought the ticket, I found out I was terminal,” Meekins, a Vietnam veteran, told NBC affiliate WFLA-TV in Tampa, [...]

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America’s Public Schools: Still Unequal and Unjust

By doris | Published: April 8, 2012

Full Story at huffingtonpost.com Millions of children in America are denied the opportunity to receive a fair and high quality education. In March, the U.S. Department of Education released new information showing that children of color face harsher discipline, have less access to rigorous course offerings, and are more often taught by lower paid and [...]

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Vegas tries to kick its water addiction

By doris | Published: September 4, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Las Vegas (CNN) — At first glance, it’s pretty easy to say Las Vegas has an unhealthy water fetish. There’s the 22-million-gallon Bellagio fountain, which rockets dancing cylinders of well water 500 feet into the air to the tune of “God Bless the USA.” There’s the liquid volcano at The Mirage, [...]

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U.S. airports to adopt ‘tailored’ terror screening

By doris | Published: April 2, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The Obama administration is abandoning its policy of using nationality alone to determine which U.S.-bound international air travelers should be subject to additional screening and will instead select passengers based on possible matches to intelligence information, including physical descriptions or a particular travel pattern, senior officials said Thursday.

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Surgeon general post is a big job for a big lady

By doris | Published: July 17, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Since President Obama announced his pick for the nation’s Top Doc, Internet message boards have been atwitter with the observation that Dr. Regina Benjamin is fat. Critics seem to believe it’s ironic that the nation’s top doctor would be overweight, and it’s led the most nattering of nags to conclude that [...]

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Web site tracks policy changes at popular sites

By doris | Published: June 5, 2009

Full Story At Tech.yahoo.com A new Web site unveiled Thursday will track policies imposed by popular Internet sites such as Facebook and Google, hoping to help users spot potentially harmful changes. TOSBack.org, the brainchild of privacy advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, will track terms of service modifications within hours of an update. The site will [...]

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ID-theft ruling: Set your own fraud alerts

By doris | Published: May 30, 2009

Full Story At Tech.yahoo.com SAN JOSE, Calif. – Companies that sell “identity-theft protection” present an alluring but questionable proposition. For as much as about $100 per year, the main thing they do is set fraud alerts that force banks to call people before new lines of credit are opened in their names. The alerts can [...]

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Georgia ‘Octomom bill’ would limit embryo implants

By doris | Published: March 4, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com A Georgia state senator introduced legislation to limit the number of embryos that can be implanted in a woman’s uterus during in-vitro fertilization procedures. Sen. Ralph Hudgens, a Republican from near Athens, Georgia, said his legislation was inspired by Nadya Suleman, the woman who said she gave birth to octuplets after [...]

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