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Illinois Spent Big. Who Was Watching the Bills? Source link
Some excerpts from Friday’s longish decision by Judge Nora Barry Fischer (W.D. Pa.) in Bhattacharya v. Univ. of Pittsburgh: Plaintiff, Chitrabhanu Bhattacharya, a tenured professor employed in the School of Business of Defendant, the University of Pittsburgh, was suspended without pay for a year, and terminated from the H.J. Zoffer endowed Chair, for “pervasive but not severe” violations of Defendant’s sexual misconduct policy…. Plaintiff sued, claiming the University denied him due process, and the court agreed. The court concluded that a one-year suspension from a tenured position, and termination from a $50,000/year chair, were deprivations of “property” that required due…
Boys Will Be Boys–But in the WNBA? Source link
8/17/1988: Republican party nominates George H.W. Bush for President. He would appoint David Souter and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. President George H.W. Bush’s appointees to the Supreme Court The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 17, 1988 appeared first on Reason.com. Source link
Photograph Source: j4p4n – Public Domain There is now a bipartisan consensus that Social Security faces a serious crisis, and something has to be done. That “something” almost always involves a large cut in benefits. There is some truth to this story. On its current path, the Social Security Trust Fund will only be able to pay a bit less than 79 percent of scheduled benefits by 2033. The standard story puts the problem as too many baby boomers being supported by too few workers. As I pointed out last month, this seriously misrepresents the issue. The problem of Social…
On Usha Vance and right-coding motherhood. Source link
Europe's Existential Crisis Source link
Madrid’s response involved roping in the police, military, and migrant services. Many who entered had little intention of remaining, with roughly 70,000 returning to Morocco over the next few days, leaving Spanish authorities to deal with hundreds of unaccompanied minors who stayed. The “mass crossing” was preceded by several developments. Spain began the process of regularizing 500,000 undocumented migrants in April. And, in July, the country’s Supreme Court ruled that “migrants arriving by sea would not face immediate removal,” according to Euronews, which increased the country’s appeal as a destination for those looking to immigrate. “We discussed this ruling and its impact. We explained that this ruling was…
The practice of separating homes, businesses, and factories into their own dedicated districts is called “Euclidean zoning.” Given that Euclidean zoning involves the slicing and dicing of city maps into color-coded districts, you might assume it is named after Euclid, the ancient Greek “father of geometry” who laid down the rules for drawing lines and shapes on flat planes. But if you ask an urban planner, he will tell you that Euclidean zoning is actually named after a town in Ohio. In 1922, Euclid, Ohio, passed a comprehensive zoning code to protect its small-town character from expanding, industrial Cleveland next…
This might not apply to all sheep-types, but many of the ones I have encountered simply do not care. This could be the reason we can’t seem to get through to them with the facts we are constantly shoving down their throats. Of course, the ones I’ve talked to may just be saying they don’t care to shut me up, but I really don’t think so. They seem pretty sincere. How could they not care? Now, that is the $64,000 question. People, in general, do not care about things they do not see directly affecting them. They should, but they…