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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Tucson Post.com http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/cat/09c0947bd4eaa867/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:56 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:56 -0400 30 Immigration advocates gather outside the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Senate Hart Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 22, 2013, as they wait to attend the committee's hearing on comprehensive immigration reform ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214671273/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:58:36 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214671273/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 CNN that the much beloved telescope, which ';has found more than 2,700 possible planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, of which more than 100 have been confirmed,'; may be nearing the end of its life now that ';the second of four of the Kepler spacecraft's reaction wheels, which aim the vessel's instruments, appears to have failed. It remains to be seen whether full ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214669525/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:46:45 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214669525/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Sacramento, Calif., Mayor Kevin Johnson, at front center, a former NBA basketball player, walks out during a break from an NBA Board of Governors meeting in Dallas on Wednesday. The board voted 22-8 against a proposed relocation of the Sacramento Kings to Seattle. (Tony Gutierrez / The Associated Press) "This is going to be short for me. I have a game to in Oklahoma City," David Stern ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214669526/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:40:44 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214669526/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 If in any of these situations even one person of influence had adhered to the basic tenets of liberalism, all of these scandals could have been ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214669527/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:40:30 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214669527/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Cure is to reduce the size, cost and intrusiveness of the federal government. Our Founding Fathers were fearful of a powerful federal government because it was a threat to liberty. The recent Internal Revenue Service scandal is the foreseeable and inevitable consequence of a too powerful federal government, and the validation of the mission of the Tea Party movement that stands firmly for a ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214669528/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:40:29 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214669528/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Hear what advice some late-night comedians offered to the Class of 2013 (and commencement speech complaints). After that, vote for your favorite joke at ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214669529/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:40:26 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214669529/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Baltimore County 's are the second-oldest. The problems posed by the aging facilities in the two jurisdictions are different - the city has an overabundance of underused buildings, while the county has for years been dealing with overcrowding in one region or another - but the first step toward a solution, county schools officials hope, may be the same: developing a comprehensive ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214669530/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:23:58 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214669530/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Republican politicians and activists can barely contain their glee at the simultaneous eruption of three major controversies about the Obama administration. Conservatives are at a low boil over the administration’s dissembling about its actions after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The public is concerned about the targeting of conservative groups by the ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214667922/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:44:16 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214667922/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 "They own the place," GOP state Rep. Pat Garofalo sarcastically said of labor unions Monday, as pro-union forces loudly celebrated the House's 68-66 vote to authorize state-paid child care providers and personal care attendants to organize a union. The contentious unionization issue was indeed a big-deal, long-sought victory for the state's union movement. It's seen as a ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214667921/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:44:16 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214667921/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 expulsion as a spy of a U.S. Embassy employee in Moscow last week. The Russian Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, said that Ryan C. Fogle was caught red-handed trying to recruit one of its officers, carrying cash, a letter, a compass, a map, sunglasses and two wigs. We don’t know what Fogle was doing, but the story sounds fishy. Back in the 1970s, perhaps, a CIA case officer would ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214665496/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:26:22 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214665496/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 That pattern was in my head as I watched ';We Steal Secrets,'; the WikiLeaks documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is the admitted source of the biggest leak of official secrets in history, and pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges against him. He faces 20 years in prison. He knew what he was doing, but like most whistle-blowers, believed the ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214665498/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:07:47 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214665498/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The IRS scandal has caused consternation on Capitol Hill. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, center, talks about the issue Thursday as Rep. Michele Bachmann, left, Sen. Rand Paul, right, and others look on. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has scheduled a hearing for next week. (Alex Wong / Getty Images) The article about the part of the tax code allowing tax-exempt ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214665497/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:07:46 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214665497/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In fact, God intervenes and comforts us in our darkest times. God is all good. God is all-powerful. Evil and tragedy happen. Pick two, as the saying goes, but all three of those postulations can't possibly be true.As seems to happen all too often in a troubled world, religious people are left to struggle with these riddles of life and belief following the tornado that devastated Moore, ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214665500/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:07:24 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214665500/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The significance of thousands of students receiving their diplomas cannot be overstated. Yet the fact remains that many more students in this country need that same ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214665499/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:07:24 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214665499/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 No trumpets blared or crowds cheered Monday night as the 2013 Legislature’s regular session drew to a close. Weary legislators are expected to troop home today to confront mixed responses to the year’s labors. We share that ambivalence, and concede that it may spring from expectations that were too high. This year’s return to all-DFL control at the Capitol after 22 years of ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663704/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:14:14 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663704/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Recently, opponents of deportations held a rally to commemorate the five-year anniversary of what they call an unjust immigration sweep of 389 people in a kosher meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa. Last July, three people breached security and entered a nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., housing highly enriched uranium, where they spilled blood at the site before being arrested. Last ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663703/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:14:13 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663703/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Abrams' hyperactive movie talked fast and walked fast -- when it wasn't at a dead run. Indeed, in its breakneck pace and its camera-flare and whip-pan-loving ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663705/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:06 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663705/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Beth Lapides (with music director-producer Mitch Kaplan) is the founder and ringmaster at UnCabaret, a Los Angeles comedy institution that's marking its 25th anniversary this ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663706/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:05 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663706/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 panel of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine says limiting salt below a certain amount may not really do us any good. Around here, we take this to mean: Eat as much salt as you can or you'll die. So, we've created The Saltwich, made with the saltiest foods we could find. Salami, bacon, pickles and salt-and-vinegar potato chips, on salty pretzel bread. Salt to ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663707/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:05 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663707/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 keep doing that. Metronomes not in sync with the table have their motions dampened, then countered, until they do it "the table's way." Eventually all the metronomes come into alignment. That's what you saw in our small, chamber music version. Now we're going symphonic. This time, we'll have a much bigger table with 32 brightly colored metronomes -- a Mormon ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663709/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:05 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663709/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Comedian, writer, director, producer and actor Mel Brooks is one of only 11 people to have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. Others in the elite EGOT club include Mike Nichols and Whoopi ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663708/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:04 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663708/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 story Sunday in The New York Times by three reporters describes the implosion that occurred when the Cincinnati IRS office was flooded with 60,000 paper applications seeking to qualify for a niche category of political activity and tax avoidance. The goal was 501(c)4 status that does not require registering as a political action committee or disclosing donors. All of the anger and frustration ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663710/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:58:37 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663710/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Froma Harrop not only gets her facts wrong on consumer-driven health care; she also does not understand the limitations of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663711/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:58:37 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214663711/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The real scandal of Benghazi ," Opinion, May 18]. She claims that Republican Rep. Darrel Issa's tenacity in pursuing and uncovering Benghazi facts is " … dishonoring the memory of Ambassodor Chris Stevens and three other Americans by making a political circus out of their deaths." Never is there even a mention of the Obama administration throwing Susan Rice under the ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214662212/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:43:13 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214662212/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tim Eyman in Olympia, February 2013Jon Lok / The Seattle Times The state's master of tax limitation by ballot measure is no lefty, and voters of a progressive stripe typically scorn anything with his name on it. But Tim Eyman of Mukilteo says he’s for the people’s right to vote on ballot measures whether right or left. That is an issue in Spokane, where the progressive ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214662214/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:43:13 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214662214/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The Bellevue City Council is responsible for the land use and zoning rules spurringthe city’s massivegrowth. Seattle Times business reporter Amy Martinez reports ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214662213/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:43:13 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214662213/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 However, in order to gather evidence against Kim, FBI Agent Reginald Reyes filed an affidavit in federal court indicating there was evidence that Rosen (who was not mentioned by name in the affidavit) had broken the law "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator." Nearly four years later, Rosen has not been charged with a crime, but indicating there was a ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214662215/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:28:11 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214662215/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In the 21st century, we have U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s "Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act," which would set the interest rate on student loans at the rate at which banks borrow from the Federal Reserve. The justification - if you can call it that - is that if the Federal Reserve lends money to banks at less than 1 percent, the federal government shouldn’t charge students ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214662216/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:28:10 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214662216/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 made it into the black , earning $11 million profit on revenue of $562 million in the first quarter of ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214660868/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:37:44 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214660868/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 - White House aide Dan Pfeiffer, responding over the weekend to questions about where the president was when our ambassador in Benghazi was under attack. "What difference, at this point, does it ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214656663/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:13:05 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214656663/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."-- Stein's Law , after economist Herbert Stein (1916-1999)We all know that Stein's Law will someday apply to health-care spending, which has risen from 5 percent of the economy (gross domestic product) in 1960 to almost 18 percent now. What we don't know is how and when its share of the economy will stabilize. Will this ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214655756/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:03:57 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214655756/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Hearing of the administration's recent scandals, it's refreshing to remember President Truman who kept a placard on his desk which said: "The Buck Stops ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214655760/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:02:03 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214655760/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The real truth is conservative dominance has made moderates uneasy both because of public policy and their inability to be elected through the Republican Party process. Because the Republican Party has not voluntarily responded to moderate policies and candidates, they are trying to compel the party system to ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214655759/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:02:02 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214655759/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Lew Jeppson stops short of the conclusion he should have drawn ("The real death panel," May 18). If you don't want death panels, don't put government in charge of your health ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214655758/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:02:00 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214655758/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Was it irony or poetry that resulted in Hyrum Anderson's letter "Gun logical fallacies" being placed on the page adjacent to Michael Gerson's column about the recent exposure of IRS abuses of power ("IRS abuses bring out the libertarian in each of us," May 14)? Anderson is right as far as his stating that "tyrannical oppression is not the inevitable outcome of ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214655757/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:02:00 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214655757/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Weld County Sheriff John Cooke, left, speaks during a news conference last Friday at which he announced that 54 Colorado sheriffs are filing a federal civil lawsuit against two gun-control bills passed by the Colorado legislature. (Brennan Linsley, The Associated Press) Gun-control opponents who raised a hue and cry during the recent legislative session, claiming their constitutional rights were ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214655762/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:44:42 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214655762/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Money attracts money, and Michigan is attracting a lot more venture capital today than it has in a decade and at a faster pace than the rest of the nation. A new report from the Michigan Venture Capital Association says the state jumped to the 15th spot in terms of business accelerator activity, up from 25th last year. And while national venture capital investment dropped 10 percent, in Michigan ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654920/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:59:51 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654920/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert Township, Mich., is shown in a undated photo provided by Consumers Energy. The license for the power plant, which is 35 miles west of Kalamazoo in Van Buren County will expire in 2011. Consumers Energy and Nuclear Management have formally asked the NRC to extend the license through 2031. (Jeanette ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654922/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:59:50 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654922/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Will skunk works even work? Whatever happened to Gov. Snyder's "best practices," "dashboard" state government? Whether it's a Washington D.C. scandal or ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654924/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:59:49 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654924/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 A reform worth trying I think we will find that drug testing will only add to the financial burden of taxpayers, while accomplishing nothing. This is the type of legislation passed that only throws red meat to citizens tired of the stories of people living their life on welfare. I do believe the new requirement for your kids to be in school to continue receiving assistance is a good start. Some ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654923/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:59:48 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654923/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Gun law a liabilityOnce again a Democrat wants to further restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens ("Conley takes aim at guns with strict new bill," May 12). Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley wants to force gun owners to carry liability insurance. This will just make legal ownership of a gun prohibitively expensive in Massachusetts, thereby making gun ownership for many, ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654057/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:38:04 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654057/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 WASHINGTON - Among ?President Obama’s broken promises, there is this gem of June 15, 2009: "no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period."That promise helped sway the American Medical Association to back the president’s Affordable Care Act. But the AMA endorsement merely reflected a ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654058/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:38:00 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654058/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Something about the state budget-writing process can cause lawmakers to lose sight of their fundamental purpose on Beacon Hill. That occurred to us as we perused the 725 (!) proposed amendments to the Senate budget proposal, debate on which begins tomorrow.To wit: One senator is seeking $15,000 to pay for signs that direct cyclists in the Pan Mass Challenge, a wildly successful cancer-fighting ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654060/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:37:52 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214654060/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The warm-weather recreation season is beginning, and Utah families will be wise to take note that according to public health agencies, those most vulnerable to death and injury from recreation-related accidents are children under age 15. Already this month, a child was killed in an ATV accident and a teenager severely injured in a hiking fall. The National Weather Service has issued its annual ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214653163/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:51:55 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214653163/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Utah Attorney General John Swallow speaks out Jan. 14, 2013, in his office at the state Capitol about allegations that he was involved in improper ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214653162/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:51:55 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214653162/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The driver of the motorcycle, Ivan Romero Oliveras, was killed during crash with a police squad at the intersection of 26th Street and Blaisdell Avenue. His passenger, Joselin Torrejon, was injured and is listed as serious at HCMC. Friends and family left flowers and lit candles at crash ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214652259/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:56:55 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214652259/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 We’re in the midst of graduation season in Minnesota. With the metro area’s concentration of world-class universities and colleges, parents from all over the country and the world are attending their children’s graduation ceremonies. Once the relief of not having to fork over one more tuition bill wears off, the dread of "what’s next?" will set in. This past ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214651303/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:51:19 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214651303/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 May is Mental Health Awareness Month - particularly noteworthy given the numerous news stories that we read online or see on the evening news. We have had our emotions stretched from fear to anger to sadness as we’ve heard about Aurora, Newtown, or any number of stories involving untimely deaths and heartache. I’d like to offer you a different face of mental illness. One in which a ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214651304/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:51:17 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214651304/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Conducted by independent professionals and monitored by Congress. Washington scandals follow a familiar arc. When an administration fouls up, the White House lops off some lower-level heads and tries to change the subject to the supposedly more important business facing the nation.Not so fast, the opposing party says. Lawmakers hint at corruption and coverups that extend straight into the Oval ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214651305/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:35:38 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214651305/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 More than 1,100 garment workers died when a factory collapsed in Bangladesh last month. The tragedy sparked a discussion on what people in the U.S. can do to improve working conditions abroad. Comments from Twitter and Facebook:U.S. consumers can do nothing to help. Greedy Americans have shares in those Third World coffin factories.-- @ChiefBisongEta1Consumers can support companies with good ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214650218/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:30:10 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214650218/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The Food and Drug Administration is recommending that tanning beds carry a warning label alerting users to the risk of skin cancer and saying they shouldn't be used by people younger than 18. Comments from Facebook:I'm 25 and was diagnosed last May with Melanoma. This would be a great change for tanning beds.-- Lindsey WilliamsWarning label? Seriously? If tanning beds are that serious ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214650219/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:30:08 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214650219/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Casey Newton, The Verge: "Marissa Mayer just made her biggest bet to date as Yahoo's CEO -- and if it goes badly, she may not get the chance to make another. A series of recent acquisitions culminated Monday with the announcement that Yahoo is spending roughly one-sixth of its cash hoard to buy Tumblr, the popular but undermonetized blogging platform. The deal brings Yahoo the vibrant, ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214650220/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:30:05 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214650220/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Stop using illegal immigrant. It’s un-American. Too often we take words for granted. The results are at best irresponsible, and at worst, discriminatory. The term "illegal immigrant" is dehumanizing, derogatory and destructive. The i-word is a racial slur that shreds the human rights of 11 million undocumented immigrants living and working in this country. It feeds the ignorant ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214649040/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:16:56 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214649040/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The IRS scandal over targeting tea-party groups is a boomerang, writes Froma Harrop. Give the tea-party people a boomerang, and moderate Republicans will get ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214649041/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:16:55 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214649041/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 "I Like Ike" cartoon from 1952. But they had no idea who President Dwight Eisenhower was. Hormones and a warm, spring day can explain the lack of interest in dead presidents. Two boys in the front row held hands the whole time I spoke.I wanted to stop the lecture and tell the affectionate boys they should thank Eisenhower if they're going to prom together. The Glee-era high school ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214649043/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:16:31 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214649043/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 A new shield law has to protect the function of journalism regardless of medium or business model. Suddenly, freedom of the press is very, very popular.In the wake of revelations that the Justice Department ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214649042/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:16:29 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214649042/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In the final days and hours before an election, even a negative campaign can ring with inspiration. It's as if candidates and their supporters remember, not a moment too soon, that they're at the center of something special. This is particularly evident on the weekend before Tuesday balloting, when candidates visit places of worship and speak to audiences in soaring tones. They try to ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214649044/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:02:45 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214649044/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 words of one state assemblyman , "in the interest of protecting as many people as possible." This raises an important question: Is prohibiting 16-year-olds from using tanning beds, without regard to the wishes of their parents or prom dates, in the interest of as many people as possible?Not if you live in New Jersey. Based on the evidence I've seen on MTV, it is safer to lie in a ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214643962/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:10:34 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214643962/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 There didn't use to be much debate about what to do with school kids who defied their teachers by refusing to do assigned work, talking back to teachers or disrupting class - disrespectful behavior that fell short of outright violence or law-breaking. It was simple. School administrators suspended those pupils and sent them home. But that tradition may be changing. Last week, the Los ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214643963/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:58:36 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214643963/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In Scottsdale, Ariz., there is a restaurant so far gone that even Gordon Ramsay’s shouting cannot save it. In fact, the owners of Amy’s Baking Company so terrified the man behind "Kitchen Nightmares" that he decided to quit working with them rather than endure them any longer. If you haven’t visited the nooks of the Internet where discussion of this has been bouncing ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214641476/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:17:51 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214641476/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 commencement speech Sunday at Morehouse College in Atlantaunderscored the still-vital role of historically black colleges and universities, known as HBCUs. These institutions were created when African Americans and other students of color were shut out ofAmerican universities and colleges. They remain ancriticaloption for many students, educating adisproportionate share of low-income and minority ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214641477/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:03:52 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214641477/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Baltimore Gas & Electric certainly isn't likely to win any popularity contests. It secured a rate increase from the Public Service Commission in February - its second in the last three years - and turned around and filed a request for another one on Friday. And at the same time, the utility is asking the PSC for what may be unprecedented in Maryland: a surcharge on customers' ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214641478/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:48:43 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214641478/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 We know American politics are dysfunctional. But after a week of scandal obsession during which the nation's capital and the media virtually ignored the problems most voters care about -- jobs, incomes, growth, opportunity, education -- it's worth asking if there is something especially flawed about our democracy. Our circumstances certainly have their own particular disabilities: a ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214640084/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:54 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214640084/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Here’s the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama’s second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn’t without some merit. On none of these issues - the deadly debacle at the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya, the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214640085/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:53 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214640085/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Atalanic. Even if dying is a bit hyperbolic, ';At the very least, it's headed for dramatic shrinkage, save for a handful of places and circumstances, to be replaced by a very different set of institutional, governance, financing and education-delivery mechanisms.'; Finn breaks the truth about private schools with statisctics. ';Private K-12 enrollments are shrinking — ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214640087/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:04:09 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214640087/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Three major scandals have surfaced over the past few weeks in Washington, escalating into a perfect storm that involves money, media and security. With the IRS targeting tea party tax-exempt groups, the Department of Justice seizing Associated Press records and the resurfacing of concerns about the handling of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, many are wondering what the ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214640086/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:04:09 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214640086/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 everything is in tatters. And, in a way, it is. But serious as these problems are, they're all short-term things. So while at the moment a lot of our political leaders may be wearing sunglasses so as not to be recognized, there's a pretty good argument that, over the longer time, our future's so bright that we have to wear shades. That's the thesis of a new book, America 3.0: ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214640088/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:57:06 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214640088/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 President Obama may be engaging in political damage control in proposing that Congress resurrect legislation to protect the confidentiality of journalists’ sources. But his call for action on ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214637351/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:51:22 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214637351/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In the two decades I have researched at the intersection of gender and security, I have come to realize that the love of mothers for their children is what keeps the whole world ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214637352/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:42:10 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214637352/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Free speech means that individuals get to decide for themselves which causes to support. Protecting the free speech rights of teachers is not an attack on collective ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214637353/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:36:23 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214637353/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Of course the president deserves some of the blame.Yes, it’s extremely unlikely he ordered the IRS to discriminate against Tea Party, pro-life or Jewish groups opposed to his agenda (though why anyone should take his word for it is beyond me). And his outrage now - however convenient - is appreciated. But when people he views as his "enemies" complained about a politicized IRS, ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214637354/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:12 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214637354/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867