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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Monday, January 11, 2016

RSN: Federal Drug Policy Softens as Whites Become Face of Heroin Addiction, The Polluters the Paris Treaty Ignores, College Sports Exploits Unpaid Black Athletes. But They Could Force a Change




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Paul Krugman | Economists and Inequality 
Paul Krugman. (photo: NYT) 
Paul Krugman, The New York Times 
Krugman writes: "I'm a few days late on this characteristically lucid Justin Fox column on why it took so long for economists to focus on income inequality. But as one of the economists who did write about inequality - especially the rise of the one percent - pretty early, I think Fox has missed one important aspect." 
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Obama to Make Good on Guantanamo Pledge 
Roberta Rampton and Andy Sullivan, Reuters 
Excerpt: "President Barack Obama will make good on a promise to close the U.S. naval prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his chief of staff Denis McDonough said on "Fox News Sunday." 
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Federal Drug Policy Softens as Whites Become Face of Heroin Addiction 
David Fonseca, TakePart 
Fonseca writes: "The numbers speak loud and clear about who's suffering from America's current heroin crisis-white people. The American Medical Association reports that 90 percent of first-time heroin users in the last decade were white." 
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College Sports Exploits Unpaid Black Athletes. But They Could Force a Change. 
Donald H. Yee, The Washington Post 
Yee writes: "But after a year when Black Lives Matter protests spread across the country, and at the end of a season when the football team at the University of Missouri helped force the resignation of the school's top two administrators over how the campus handled race-related incidents, we need to stop ignoring the racial implications of the NCAA's hypocrisy." 
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Washington State's Rules for Transgender Restroom Access Set Off Debate 
Nina Shapiro, Seattle Times 
Shapiro writes: "Restroom access for transgender people, estimated to be less than one percent of the population, has become a heated issue around the country - seen by some as a civil-rights battle akin to gay marriage and by others as political correctness run amok. The issue may have even more resonance in Washington, where at least by Askini's account the transgender population is possibly the third largest in the country." 
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Aid Delayed to Besieged Syrian City as Conditions Worsen With Winter: 'In Madaya, You See Walking Skeletons.' 
Michael Kaplan, International Business Times 
Kaplan writes: "An aid convoy carrying desperately needed food and medicine for the Syrian town of Madaya, which has endured a crippling siege for six months, has been delayed by last-minute complications, the BBC reported Saturday. The town has become a symbol of Syria's suffering in recent days, as images have emerged on social media purportedly showing severely malnourished residents." 
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The Polluters the Paris Treaty Ignores 
Julian Spector, CityLab 
Spector writes: "There are two particular industries that must factor into any plan to cut carbon and yet aren't directly represented in the current COP21 talks: international shipping and aviation." 
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