Friday, March 11, 2016

@16:00, 3/10/16

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U.S.

Mitt Romney Records Another Anti-Trump Message, This Time for John Kasich

Mr. Romney, who spoke out against Donald J. Trump’s candidacy last week, made a similar get-out-the-vote call to Republicans supporting Marco Rubio.

The Republican party dislikes Trump.
So do I.

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Opinion

Wary About Summonses

A New York legal services group writes that “a decision in summons court can have devastating consequences.”

Yes.
Move quality of life problems out of the criminal part.

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N.Y. / Region

New York Is Thriving Under Mayor de Blasio, Much to Business Leaders’ Relief

With tourism, construction, wages and employment all up, Mayor Bill de Blasio appears to have won over many economic leaders who feared his “tale of two cities” rhetoric.

The mayor has no interest in reducing his tax base.

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N.Y. / Region

Officer in Ramarley Graham Shooting Won’t Face U.S. Charges

Mr. Graham’s family had hoped that prosecutors would bring a civil rights case against the officer who killed the unarmed teenager in the bathroom of his family’s Bronx home in 2012.

Do not resist the police on the street.
Survive and sue them later.

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U.S.

Pennsylvania: Minimum Wage Boosted for Some

The governor is raising the minimum wage to $10.15 for state government employees and workers on jobs contracted by the state.

Gov. Tom Wolf is exercising what unilateral power he has.

6
World

Protesters in France Take to Streets Over Proposed Changes to Labor Law

Thousands marched in Paris on Wednesday to protest proposals that would make it easier to fire workers, but that the government says could mean more jobs.

Self serving bad advice is everywhere and offered "Free".

French Labor productivity is high.

Easy firing has led to the present U.S. economy.

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World

North Korean Defector in South Seeks Vietnam’s Help to Return Home

Kim Ryen-hi, 46, who has insisted that she arrived in South Korea by mistake, applied for political asylum at the Vietnamese Embassy in Seoul.

Call her an "economic migrant" and send her home.

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U.S.

Missouri Senate Approves Bill Protecting Foes of Gay Marriage


Public accomodations.

9
Opinion

How to Reduce Medicare Drug Costs

Getting a handle on rising prices will require some experimentation.

A fix should be applied.
As usual, this may be the best politically possible solution.

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N.Y. / Region

Connecticut Teenager Accused in Prom Rejection Killing Pleads No Contest


Here embarasment is worth his life.

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U.S.

Heroin Epidemic Increasingly Seeps Into Public View

As heroin use soars, people are routinely being found unconscious in public places like the bathrooms of fast-food restaurants, libraries and churches.

Opioids are addictive.
Addiction is a life sentence.

There is maintenance.
There is relief from an overdose.
There is no cure.


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World

Brazil Adjusts Guidelines for Diagnosing Defect Linked to Zika

Officials adopted stricter guidelines to determine when babies have been born with abnormally small heads, a step expected to reduce the number of false positives for microcephaly.

Something is causing microcephaly.

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U.S.

Illinois: Second Man Charged in Killing of Chicago Boy

Murder charges were filed in the killing of a 9-year-old boy who the police say was lured from a city playground and shot in the head in November.

There are monsters.

14
Real Estate

Reinventing Themselves, and Home, in Harlem

Tom Sullivan and Jim Dotson went apartment-hunting when they moved to New York from Vermont.

good luck to them.

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World

Taiwan and Hainan at Risk of Zika Spread, Scientist Warns

The two islands both have populations of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is believed to be the main carrier of the virus.

I am surprised it is not there.

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U.S.

Missouri Senate Filibusters Against Bill Protecting Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage

Democrats delayed a vote on a bill giving legal protection to opponents of same-sex marriage, one of several such measures introduced since the Supreme Court’s ruling in June.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/03/10/us/ap-us-xgr-religious-objections-missouri-the-latest.html

Unconstitutional.
Public accomodations.

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N.Y. / Region

Staten Island Homes Finally Go Up, and Up for Auction, in Hurricane’s Wake

More than three years after Hurricane Sandy, some neighborhoods are just receiving the benefits from New York City’s Build It Back program.

Cheap space for a reason.

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Business Day

A Few Solutions to the Working Class Revolt

On the wrong side of globalization, workers supporting Donald Trump have embraced his proposals. But there are better ways to make things better.

With support for Trump labor is shooting itself in the foot.

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Opinion

A Bill on Toxic Chemicals and Cleanup of PCBs

A Monsanto official and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offer differing views on a bill involving liability for PCBs.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0101-02.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl

No shield law should be passed.

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World

Brazilian Businessman Gets Stiff Sentence in Petrobras Scandal

Marcelo Odebrecht got more than 19 years in prison after being convicted of corruption and money laundering in the investigation of the state-owned oil company.

The appeal will probably succeed.
Marcelo Odebrecht looks like a "fall guy".


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