@21:30, 12/26/16

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Business Day

Changes Coming to White House Press Room: Who, Where, When and How

By SYDNEY EMBER | Dec 25th 2016

Donald J. Trump has shown few reservations about ignoring the norms of presidential media coverage. Journalists are wary of what that might mean.

The reporters can get aggressive when thwarted.
That might be a good thing.
The Russians keep pointing out the the difference between a spy and a reporter is mainly semantic.
I would like the Trump administration to be as disabled as possible. 

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Travel

Smaller Bathrooms on Planes Pose Challenges for Passengers

By DINAH ENG | Dec 23rd 2016

Lavatories on some single-aisle aircraft have been reconfigured, drawing criticism from fliers and flight attendants.

It is a design problem.
The planes will be stinky if it is not solved.
Access to the first class lavatories for the handicapped could be a fix.


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Opinion

States Will Lead on Climate Change in the Trump Era

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Dec 26th 2016

Donald Trump isn’t likely to advance climate policy. Luckily, there’s a bulwark against any attempt to roll back the progress made.

I am not hopeful.

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Business Day

Seller-Financed Deals Are Putting Poor People in Lead-Tainted Homes

By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN | Dec 26th 2016

The contracts relieve the true owner of the home of the responsibility for fixing it, and the result is more children with dangerous lead poisoning.

It is a regulatory problem.
The true owner changes at the time of sale.

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N.Y. / Region

Ex-Prisoners Get an Advocate From Their Own Ranks

By BENJAMIN WEISER | Dec 23rd 2016

Good.

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U.S.

Piers J. Sellers, Climate Scientist and Astronaut, Dies at 61

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN | Dec 24th 2016

Mr. Sellers was a leading figure in NASA’s scientific research programs, flying to the International Space Station on the space shuttle Atlantis in 2002 and 2010, and on Discovery in 2006.

One less rational voice.

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Opinion

Cutting Prison Sentences, and Costs

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Dec 24th 2016

Do it.

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Opinion

The End for Ghana’s ‘Power-Cut’ President

By KWAKU O. OSEI | Dec 26th 2016

Fed up with frequent rolling blackouts, voters punished the ruling party. The new government won’t find it easy to fix the problem.

The problem can be solved.
Ghana will need a crash program.  Nationalization will be necessary.

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Opinion

The Quiet War on Medicaid

By GENE B. SPERLING | Dec 25th 2016

Donald Trump may not have the stomach to attack Medicare, but trouble is certainly brewing for millions of poor and working-class families.

If successful The block grant programs should poison the Republican coalition.

Many more will die homeless.

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N.Y. / Region

Carl Paladino, Trump Ally, Wishes Obama Dead of ‘Mad Cow Disease’ in ’17

By J. DAVID GOODMAN | Dec 23rd 2016

Mr. Paladino, a one-time Republican candidate for governor of New York and political ally of Donald J. Trump, also said in an interview that Michelle Obama should be “let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe.”

There is a good reason he is not a governor.

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