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1/30/15
TechNews for the week: January 30; January 28; January 26;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Kurds Claim Victory in Kobani as Islamic State Advance Is Halted; How ISIS is bombed from a South Carolina facility;
Army and Islamist Clash in Egypt's Sinai; U.S. counterterrorism operations with Yemen suspended;
Arab lawmakers shake up Israeli politics with historic union; Netanyahu Talk Stirs Backlash in Israeli Race; Iran says it sent warning to Israel via US officials;
Rockets from Syria hit Golan Heights; Hezbollah claims responsibility for Israeli attack in retaliation for Israeli airstrike; Israel buries soldiers, says Hezbollah doesn't want conflict;
Israel to build 430 new West Bank settler homes;
New Saudi king ascends to the throne as terrorism threat grows;
Putin accused of presiding over 'mafia state'; New far-right anti-immigrant sentiment hits German streets; Greeks emphatically reject austerity, elect Syriza in historic vote;
Young Cubans build own internet after being cut off by wifi ban and trade embargo ;
New top Marine Corps general releases plan to shake up the service; Can the Pentagon downsize its headquarters staff? Abolish West Point - and the other service academies;
Iran Sanctions Supporters Don't Want To Improve Nuclear Talks. They Want To Destroy Them;
GOP drops 'civil rights and human rights' from subcommittee name;
Senate passes Keystone XL pipeline bill; Extra Provisions Attached To The Senate's Keystone XL Bill;
ACA does NOT provide federal subsidies for elective abortions, despite what GOP says; State Officials Trying To Gut Obamacare Get Caught Making False Claims To The Court;
Gov Kasich Calls Out Conservatives Who Oppose Common Core; Kansas tax collections $47M short of expectations in January;
U.S. top court rules for employer in retiree benefits fight;
Koch-backed network aims to spend nearly $1 billion on 2016 elections;
Texas Lawmaker asks Muslim visitors to pledge allegiance to America;
Judge refuses to toss Perry case on constitutional grounds; Mitt Romney will not make 2016 White House bid;
Math, science and technology:
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Seventh Cent Would Cripple South Carolina’s Growth;
Haley's Anti-Union Bullying Out Of Order;
Finance and Economics
U.S. deficit to dip in 2015 as era of dramatic declines ends; Economy grew 2.6% in the fourth quarter; Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged;
States Where The Middle Class Is Dying; How much you need to earn to join your state's top 1 percent; Income Inequality by states;
Chinese currency now one of five most-used globally; New Chinese Rules Force Companies to Disclose Source Code;
Dark side of declining oil prices is economic pain for some countries; Oil's fall pushes Germany into deflation;
North Dakota: oil producers aim to cut radioactive waste bills; Drones May Change Energy Exploration; Future Of Solar Projects Uncertain As Tax Credit Ends;
How the cable industry is trying to reshape the economics of the Internet; Google Fiber to land in four more cities;
Stadiums race to digitize: How sports teams are scrambling to keep Millennials coming to games;
The Obama administration wants to dramatically change how doctors are paid;
Cyber Insurance Demand Said Rising in Europe;
Other news
NFL Cheating Scandal: 4 Lessons For CIOs;
California judges barred from Boy Scouts over anti-gay discrimination; Boy Scouts settle California suit over abuse;
Marathon champ Rita Jeptoo receives two-year ban for positive drug test;
Education:
The Day the Purpose of College Changed; Report: Facebook Use Affects GPA in Freshmen, Not Seniors; Credit Hours Still Useful For Schools;
Bid to Hold Teacher Colleges Accountable Stirs a Debate Over Race; North Carolina Recommends Changes to Teacher Training Programs;
Amid Political Pressure, Obama Drops Plan to Curb College-Savings Plans; Who's Saving for College in 529 Plans?
Wisconsin's Governor Ups the Ante for University Autonomy; Wisconsin Governor Stirs a Debate Over What Professors Actually Do;
Undergraduates in the U.S. Illegally Face a Wide Array of Challenges; Study Finds Women Falling Behind In Receiving STEM Bachelor's Degrees;
Secrets of Good Teaching; College Endowments See Another Year of Growth;
What's Really Behind College 'Rape Culture'?
1/23/15
TechNews for the week: January 23; January 21;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has died; How Saudi Arabia's harsh legal punishments compare to the Islamic State's;
Kurds say they have ejected Islamic State militants from large area in northern Iraq; Oil drop 'disastrous' for anti-Isis fight;
Israeli helicopter fires two missiles at Syrian Golan Heights;
Boehner broke protocol with Netanyahu invitation; Israeli intelligence officials undercuts Netanyahu, warns US Congress against more Iran sanctions;
Fiercest fighting in months besets Yemeni capital, boosting fears of coup; Yemen suffers power vacuum after president, premier quit;
Yemen chaos threatens U.S. counterterror efforts, including drone program;
State of the GOP is broken: I thought Joni Ernst was bad. Then I watched Ted Cruz; GOP Senator Joni Ernst's family Took $460,000 In Taxpayer Handouts;
Rand Paul steps up the GOP attack on Social Security;
Abortion bill dropped amid concerns of female GOP lawmakers; Republicans Include Tax Hike In watered-down antiabortion bill;
New GOP intelligence panel chair wants return of full torture report;
As U.S. test scores lag, study shows violence, poverty, teen pregnancy are high;
How police spent billions seized from Americans;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
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SC Politics
Tea party looks to 2016 at South Carolina convention;
City and county quickly expanding greenspace West of the Ashley;
Finance and Economics
Average American Gets This Much From Social Security; States with no income tax; The stark disparities of paid leave: The rich get to heal. The poor get fired.;
Blackstone's Studzinski: 2015 to Be Year of Volatility; Davos bosses fret over threats to Internet free trade; Bill Gates Talks Immigration, Microsoft;
ECB pumps new money into economy; EU unlikely to support ban on free unlimited Facebook, Spotify;
Plunging oil prices force Alaska to look for ways to address budget woes; Falling oil prices hit Venezuela, Iran and Russia hard; OPEC defends refusal to cut crude oil output;
Pickens' Clue on When Oil Prices Will Bottom; BHP Cuts U.S. Shale Rigs as Oil to Iron Ore Prices Slip;
Senate Rejects Democrats' Keystone Amendments; Canadian Firm Building Keystone Pipeline To Seize Land From 86 Nebraskans; Landowners Renew Challenge To Keystone;
Montana oil spill renews worry over safety of old pipelines; 3M-gallon saltwater spill in ND;
As Cities Push For Their Own Broadband, Cable Firms Say Not So Fast; Bill to help cities build their own, public Internet services;
U.S. court says JPMorgan must live with $1.5 billion paperwork error; SEC pushing partial S&P rating suspension; The cash-rich split-off loophole;
Other news
Boy Scouts membership falls 7 percent in decade-long decline;
Wrong Turn Lengthens Charleston Marathon;
Physics Professors Tackle the NFL's 'Ballghazi' Scandal;
Education:
Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty; College Students Think They're Ready for the Work Force. Employers Aren't So Sure;
How Colleges Should Prepare Students; Study Questions Whether Full-Time Enrollment Is Best for Everyone;
What do the academy and the military have in common?
State Higher Education Spending Inches Up, but Fiscal Pitfalls Remain;
U. of North Carolina President's Ouster Comes Amid Political Shift; Anti-Common Core Bill Highlights GOP Pressure for Conservative NCLB Overhaul;
More Colleges Are Employing Armed Police Officers; Citing First Amendment, Illinois Bible Colleges Sue to End State Regulation;
Facebook Addiction and GPA; Three evolving thoughts about flipped learning; Putting Specs Grading to Work;
NCAA investigating 20 schools for academic misconduct; NCAA's Top Conferences to Allow Additional Aid for Athletes;
NCAA investigation shows downside of SMU's Larry Brown gambit;
1/16/15
TechNews for the week: January 16; January 14; January 12;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Calling ISIS By A New Name That They Absolutely Hate; Al-Qaeda assertion that it planned Paris attack draws some skepticism;
Abbas dramatically challenges Israel after 10 cautious years; War crimes court opens probe into Palestinian territories;
Russian Media, Turkish Politicians Suggest U.S., Israeli Involvement in Paris Attacks;
China Shuts Down 50 Websites, Social Media Accounts;
Patriot Act's unintended consequences in post-9/11 world; Terror attacks add heat to GOP's intraparty battle to fund Homeland Security;
CIA finds no wrongdoing in agency's search of computers used by Senate investigators; U.S. prosecutors recommend criminal charges against Petraeus;
Holder limits police ability to seize assets without evidence of a crime;
Supreme Court rejects new challenge to Obamacare law; Court agrees to hear same-sex marriage case;
Little recourse seen for Democrats on Social Security rule change;
Kansas Governor Could Raid The School Budget To Pay For Failed Experiment With Trickle-Down Economics;
Duke University reverses decision, will not allow Muslim call to prayer at its chapel;
Math, science and technology:
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SC Politics
Judge declares mistrial in South Carolina police murder case: report;
Haley Should Make Time For Inaugural Poem;
State legislature to look at guns, weed, ethics, sexting, taxes, and mopeds ;
Finance and Economics
Pew Research The Politics of Financial Insecurity; States Tax Poor More Heavily than Ultra-rich; Very Serious elites threaten economic recovery;
Switzerland proposes laws on bank secrecy;
Franc Fallout Boosts Dollar on Growing Demand for Haven; Why should the Swiss central bank action matter to you;
Casualties From Swiss Shock Spread From New York to New Zealand;
Finland to reject Greek debt forgiveness;
Canada still Expects Keystone XL Pipeline Approval;
'60 Minutes': Obamacare A Disaster. Here's What They Didn't Tell You; Judge overturns home health care wage, overtime rules;
Shrinking IRS struggles to keep up with growing number of tax-exempt charities;
GOP push Bill Wiping Out Wall Street Reforms; High-Tech Worker Visas Bill Introduced In Senate;
Marriott Drops Plan to Block Guests' Hot Spots;
Sprint just stuck a dagger into AT&T's net neutrality argument; Version the blame for the Net neutrality mess;
Kansas Follows Red-Ink Road With Brownback Tax Cuts: Muni Credit;
Other news
Former highest-ranking U.S. cardinal blames 'feminization' for the Catholic Church's problems;
8 leadership books to read in 2015;
Education:
Standard & Poor's Issues Negative Outlook for Nonprofit Higher Education; More States Tie Money to Colleges' Performance, but That May Not Work;
Who Has a Stake in Obama's Free Community-College Plan; What Students Pay at Community Colleges Now and How Obama's Proposal Might Change That;
40 Colleges Experiment With Competency-Based Programs; Benefits of Study Abroad Are Not Universal;
For-Profit Sector May Begin To Push Shorter Course Programs; History Channel partners with Okla Univ to offer online History course;
Agency to Offer 'Scorecard' on College-Affiliated Debit Cards for Students;
Report: Women Discouraged From Entering Fields With "Brilliance" Perception;
When Colleges Abandon Phys Ed, What Else Is Lost? How One Building Reveals What's Wrong With Higher Education;
Athletics Leaders: 'We Need to Make Our Case Before It Is Too Late'; New Benefits for Athletes Trigger Talk of Cutbacks in College Sports;
Who Has the Most to Gain as College Sports Enters a New Era; Clemson Tells UBooster, an Athletics Fund-Raising Site, to Cease and Desist;
Faculty Senate at U.Alabama - Birmingham Votes No Confidence in President over decision to eliminate football;
NCAA Restores Penn State Football Wins Forfeited After Sandusky Scandal;
1/9/15
TechNews for the week: January 9; January 7; January 5;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
U.N. confirms Palestinians will be ICC member from April 1; Palestine just joined the International Criminal Court. Here's what that means;
Israel withholds funds, weighs lawsuits against Palestinians; withholds Palestinian tax revenues after ICC move; Israel's president against Palestinian tax freeze;
Netanyahu under threat from Labour party; Israel Looking to Congress on Palestinian Aid Cut; Senator introduces bill to cut aid to Palestinians;
US no longer the power broker it was on path to Palestinian statehood; Fmr. NYT Reporter Compared Israel to ISIS;
The Isis economy: discontent are evident across the 'caliphate'; Islamic State attacks checkpoints in Iraq's Samarra;
Paris attack highlights Europe's struggle with Islamism; attack raises fears of support surge for extreme right; U.S. Catholic group says cartoonists 'provoked' slaughter;
Thousands flee in Kashmir as India-Pakistan clashes spread;
U.S. to realign forces in Britain and other European countries;
Boehner reelected as House speaker; Republicans To Use Congressional Control To Challenge Obama; Republicans Have a Veto-Proof Math Problem;
GOP serves up economic double whammy; GOP Will Move Forward With Plan That Could Risk DHS Shutdown; Boehner douses gas tax hopes;
Net neutrality takes new twist as Congress appears ready to step in;
Republicans in state governments plan juggernaut of conservative legislation;
Sam Brownback's terrible, very bad 31 hours; Maine governor spent $53K to try to remove 6,000 young adults from Medicaid;
A record number of Americans claim to be independent are kidding themselves;
The Senate's 46 Democrats got 20 million more votes than its 54 Republicans;
Math, science and technology:
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Give Obama More Credit, Less Hate;
CCSD records: McGinley resisted Coach Walpole's removal;
Finance and Economics
Unemployment rate falls to 5.6 pct. as US gains 252,000 jobs; Fed pays record $98.7 bn in profits to US Treasury;
Wealthiest Americans say the poor have it easy; Where America's Social Security benefits go, in four maps;
Pentagon Seeking 20% Cut in U.S. War Funding to $51 Billion;
World stocks plunge into the red as oil price falls; Deflation hits eurozone as energy prices fall;
Has the medical device tax eliminated 'thousands' of jobs? Spotlight on UPMC in new book on health care; The Case For Why Health Care Law 'Won't Work';
Study: Keystone XL carbon emissions 'would be four times higher than US thought'; EPA Delays Rule To Control Carbon Dioxide Emissions At New Coal Plants;
Nebraska high court tosses suit over Keystone pipeline route; Native Americans: Keystone XL would destroy our native lands;
Colorado Republicans Seeking To "Roll Back" State's Renewable Energy Requirements;
Google Could Use Utility Poles for Fiber Project; ESPN will be available through a streaming service, no cable required;
How the Texas Retirement System fund dealt with an ethics dilemma; Morgan Stanley fires employee, cites data theft;
Other news
Panel: 'Ferguson Did Not Happen in a Vacuum';
10 Signs You've Hired The Wrong Person;
Gingrich's claims on Byrd's and Black's KKK membership;
Education:
Study: SAT More Predictive Of Black Students' Success In College; Alternatives To Standardized Testing; Trouble grading teachers with test scores;
Longer School Days, Years, Would Help Income Students With Achievement Gap; Study Offers Hope Against "Summer Slide";
Study: Larger Online Class Sizes Have No Impact On Student Performance; Flipped-Classroom Pioneer Hands Off His Video Lectures;
GAO: Students Assuming Greater Share Of Public University Cost; Student Loans Are Poorly Aligned With Graduate Earnings;
Obama proposes idea of two free years of community college; University Of Illinois Suggests In-State Tuition Freeze;
Higher-Ed Groups Seek a More-Complete Picture of Post-College Outcomes; LATimes: US Should Start Over With College Ratings;
National Research Council Advises On Next Generation Science Standards' Implementation;
College Presidents Guide to Social Media;
Lawsuit Threat Helps Textbook Price-Comparison Tool Go Viral;
Dartmouth Accuses 64 Students of Cheating in Popular Course; Arizona State U. Moves to Fire Officer Who Arrested English Professor;
Knight Commission Study Shows Willingness to Shake Up Structure of College Sports;
Former coach perpetuated cheating scheme that benefited hundreds of college athletes; Cracking Down on Shoddy Transfer Credits;
U. Texas Flagship Is Investigating 'Chronicle' Report of Cheating Scandal; Star Quarterbacks Accuser Says Florida State U. Violated Sex-Bias Law;
NCAA: Players' Families Will Be Paid for Travel to Championship Games; Why An 8-Team College Football Playoff Won't Work;
1/2/15
TechNews for the week: December 31; December 29;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Iraq faces new crisis as winter descends on millions uprooted by Islamic State; Iraq's Sunnis may seek Iran help against ISIL; Fears grow over Iran's disgruntled Sunni;
The U.S. and Iran are aligned in Iraq against the Islamic State;
Palestinian statehood bid submitted to UN; resolution fails at U.N council, U.S. votes against; What does the US really want for Palestine?
Palestinians join International Criminal Court; Netanyahu threatens Israeli response to ICC approach; Israel's lurch to the right dims two-state peace prospects;
Netanyahu Fights 'Bibi Fatigue' as Young Likud Strays to Rivals; Israeli settlers stone U.S. diplomatic cars;
Saudi King Abdullah admitted to hospital;
Moving to close Guantanamo, Pentagon sends five prisoners to Kazakhstan;
Air Force captain dissents from military sex assault policy, and commanders take notice;
Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy; How America's Middle Class Dug Its Own Grave;
On racial issues, America is divided both black and white and red and blue; On Leadership: A remarkable letter from the Nashville police chief;
GOP draws lines as PA Governor focuses on huge deficit;
Jeb Bush resigns all board memberships with eye on 2016;
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The High Price of Backwardness; The Climate Report South Carolina Spent Years Hiding; Charleston Water System's decision to loan its logo to private company;
If we're lucky, this will be the last Medal of Honor Bowl;
Finance and Economics
Dispelling Myths: No, China does not hold more than 50 percent of U.S. debt;
Dying and profits: The evolution of hospice; Engineering Firms Accused Of Doctoring Sandy Damage Reports;
USA Today Report: Few Minorities In Non-Tech Jobs In Silicon Valley;
Microsoft, Google Oppose Hotels' Wi-Fi Plans;
Canadian Oil Surge to U.S. Gulf Puts Mexico on Defensive; U.S. Easing of Oil Exports Challenges OPEC's Strategy; Why Oil Will Probably Stay Cheap in 2015;
US Oil Rigs Are Shutting Down Like Crazy; Oil price crash claims first U.S. LNG project casualty;
Americans Said To Prefer Solar, Wind Power; Op-ed: US Should Switch To Natural Gas;
Delaware-size gas plume over West illustrates the cost of leaking methane;
Other news
KRUGMAN: It's Not Just About Hard Work - Dumb Rich Kids Get All The Breaks;
This is how depressingly partisan America has become;
5 new Tea Party extremists taking office this month;
Education:
Colleges often give discounts to the rich. Here's one that gave up on 'merit aid';
West Virginia school board alters climate change education standards; Critics Of Kansas Science Standards Appeal Lawsuit's Dismissal;
In education-crazy South Korea, top teachers become multimillionaires;