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- AP - Swiss court convicts ex-HSBC employee for leaking bank data
Swiss court convicts ex-HSBC employee for leaking bank data Jamey Keaten, Associated Press, Nov. 27, 2015
- Bill Browder's Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee
“I hope that my story will help you understand the methods of Russian operatives in Washington and how they use U.S. enablers to achieve major foreign policy goals without disclosing those interests,” Browder writes. Rosie Gray, The Atlantic, Jul 25, 2017
- Commentary: the role of epidemiologists in funding biomedical education and research
Melissa Perry, Annals of Epidemiology. September 2016;26(9):601–604 Melissa Perry served as the president of the American College of Epidemiology from September 2014 to September 2015. This is a written version of her Presidential Address at the 2015 Annual Meeting. Her speech was inspired by a 2014 Wall Street Journal commentary by Dr. Ferric Fang of the Washington University School of Medicine and Dr. Arturo Casadevall of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. They likened the process of submitting a research proposal to the National Institutes of Health to playing the Powerball lottery. In her speech, Dr. Perry argued for the urgent need for epidemiology researchers to reach out to policymakers and the public in support of our field to ensure the continuation of research projects that can help improve the health of citizens everywhere.
- Congressional dysfunction at ‘tipping point,’ ex-senator says
Congressional dysfunction at ‘tipping point,’ ex-senator says Ray Gronberg, Herald-Sun, 2/3/2016 "The Congressional workweek nowadays is little more than two days long, the elected members arriving Tuesday for “a bed-check vote” and by Thursday already “smelling jet fumes” at the airport on their way out of Washington, she said. "Such as it is, the legislative process largely unfolds these days behind closed doors, bypassing the formal committee structure that’s supposed to be a “fertile ground for building bipartisanship and consensus,” she said. "Many of the bills that do emerge are stalking horses for “gotcha votes,” geared toward political messaging rather than actual policy."
- House Science Committee's Anti-Science Rampage
The House Science Committee’s Anti-Science Rampage, Lawrence M. Krauss, The New Yorker, September 14, 2016
- Media Matters - Frontline Relies On Straw Man To Shield Its NRA Documentary From Criticism By Progressives
Frontline Relies On Straw Man To Shield Its NRA Documentary From Criticism By Progressives Timothy Johnson, Media Matters, January 22, 2015 P.S. Just a reminder - my posting an item does not imply that I necessarily agree positions it takes.
- NC Lawmakers Axe Long-term Care Oversight Panel
By Thomas Goldsmith, Editor in Aging, Consumer News, Disabilities, Featured, Mental Health, NC Health News, June 30, 2016 A bill that popped up late in the legislative session erodes some protections for residents of problematic long-term care facilities.
- NC Policy Watch - Out of state money behind secret plan to fund charter takeover of NC’s worst performing schools
Out of state money behind secret plan to fund charter takeover of NC’s worst performing schools Lindsay Wagner, 8/13/2015 NC Policy Watch
- NPR - How The Iran Vote Is Engineered To Pass
How The Iran Vote Is Engineered To Pass Steve Inskeep, NPR Morning Edition September 02, 2015 5:03 AM ET
- NY Times Editorial - Political Dark Money Just Got Darker
Political Dark Money Just Got Darker The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Dec 25, 2015
- NY Times - For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions
For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions Noam Scheiber and Patricia Cohen, NY Times, Dec. 29, 2015 "The very richest are able to quietly shape tax policy that will allow them to shield billions in income."
- NY Times - Hospitality and gambling interests delay closing of billion-dollar tax loophole
Hospitality and gambling interests delay closing of billion-dollar tax loophole Eric Lipton and Liz Moyer, NY Times, December 20, 2015
- Paying for roads and bridges
Henry Petroski, American Scientist, Sept-Octv2016;104:278- American infrastructure is vitally important, yet decaying. Various schemes to finance the funding shortfall illustrate the weaknesses of our political culture.
- PRI - Quietly, Congress extends a ban on CDC research on gun violence
Quietly, Congress extends a ban on CDC research on gun violence The Takeaway PRI Producer Todd Zwillich, Editor T.J. Raphael July 02, 2015 · 8:00 AM EDT Updated: October 05, 2015 · 9:30 AM EDT
- Racial Diversity Among Top Senate Staff
Racial Diversity Among Top Senate Staff Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 12/15/2015
- The Daily Beast: Congressman bought pharma stock, pushed bill that could help it and bought more:
Republican congressman Chris Collins purchased $2.2 million worth of stock in Innate Immunotherapeutics as part of its initial public offering in late 2013, according to a previously unreported document Collins filed with Australia’s securities authority. The IPO prospectus said Innate would seek FDA approval of its drug to treat multiple sclerosis. More than a year later, Collins wrote into a bill language to expedite the FDA’s approval process for such drugs. Four months before the bill was signed into law, Collins again purchased stock in Innate, this time as much as $1 million, according to congressional financial disclosure records. (Courtesy of NC Health News, 4/26/2017)
- The N.R.A. Lobbyist Behind Florida’s Pro-Gun Policies
Mike Spies, The New Yorker, March 5, 2018 Marion Hammer is the National Rifle Association’s Florida lobbyist. At seventy-eight years old, she is nearing four decades as the most influential gun lobbyist in the United States. Her policies have elevated Florida’s gun owners to a uniquely privileged status, and made the public carrying of firearms a fact of daily life in the state.
- The Raising of America - Once upon a time
The Raising of America - Once upon a time: when childcare for all wasn't just a fairytale (California Newsreel, 2015) "In 1971, a bi-partisan Congress, still influenced by the Civil Rights movement and War on Poverty, passed a bill providing high-quality childcare, home visiting and other services to every family which wanted it, the Comprehensive Child Development Act (CCDA)."
- The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won
Mining personal data has become a trillion-dollar business — which is why activists are pushing laws to curb the practice, and why Facebook and other companies are desperate to stop them. Nicholas Confessore, NY Times Magazine, Aug. 14, 2018
- We Lost Our Daughter to a Mass Shooter and Now Owe $203,000 to His Ammo Dealer
"We Lost Our Daughter to a Mass Shooter and Now Owe $203,000 to His Ammo Dealer" Lonnie and Sandy Phillips HuffPost Politics, Posted: 09/25/2015 3:25 pm EDT Updated: 09/27/2015 3:59 pm EDT
- Zuckerberg's congressional survival guide: Tips from experts
Mae Anderson, AP Technology Writer, Apr. 1, 2018 As Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify before Congress over Facebook's privacy fiasco, public-relations experts who have prepped CEOs before have plenty of advice on handling the hot seat. Among them: Appear sympathetic and be ready for a beating. Take responsibility. Don't feign ignorance. And keep in mind that this is more political theater than public policy. The so-called "optics" —how things look— are as important as what you say.