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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Professors’ Group: “Trigger Warnings” Threaten Academic Freedom
Arguing that preemptive messages warning of potentially offensive material are "infantilizing and anti-intellectual," the American Association of University…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Cybersecurity: Working to Stop the Next Target Breach
With cyberthreats continually causing trouble in both the retail and financial spaces, industry groups that at times find…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
ATM Industry Aims to Bring Bitcoin Into Financial Services Fold
Last week, the trade association that represents the ATM industry recognized Bitcoin as an increasingly important global currency,…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Report: Older Vehicles, Not New Ones, Common Theft Targets
If you drive a Honda Accord from the 1990s, we have some bad news for you from the…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Biking Is Booming: The Bikeshare Industry Gets Its Own Association
As more communities adopt bike-sharing programs, key stakeholders in the industry have launched the North American Bikeshare Association…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Post-Ferguson, Police Groups Push to Protect Military Surplus Access
The heavily armed police response to protests after a racially charged police shooting in Missouri drew widespread attention…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
After Deadly Crashes, Pilots’ Association Warns of Hypoxia Risk
With the flight enthusiast world in morning after two separate crashes that may have been caused by a…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
A Revival: California State Rural Health Association Reorganizes
Running on a shoestring budget with a volunteer board and no current staff, the association is regrouping after…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Cartoon Network Teams With Nonprofits to Fight Bullying
In its latest effort as part of its “Stop Bullying: Speak Up” campaign, the network is asking its…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Municipal Broadband Pits Cities Against Telecom Giants
The Federal Communications Commission is considering whether to override Tennessee and North Carolina law and allow two cities…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Highway Safety Institute: Newer Cars Are Getting Safer
According to new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, more models of vehicles than ever have…
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Grocery Manufacturers Give FDA a Peek Under the Labels
In a move meant to improve transparency by the food industry, the Grocery Manufacturers Association announced a plan…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Tax Writers Seek to Tackle Inversions and Extenders
Senate Finance leaders are already in talks to address the timely issue of corporate inversions, but face tougher…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Internet Advocacy Group Ranks the Awful
In the latest edition of its iAWFUL list, the advocacy group NetChoice says that a move to attach…
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Top Comcast Critic Offers Free Cable for Clever Remixes
As the cable giant attempts to push through a merger with Time Warner Cable, a consumer-advocacy group has…
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Opt-Out, Not Opt-In: California Passes Tough Kill-Switch Law
Putting the wireless industry on the defensive, the Golden State has passed a law that will require the…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
With Ebola Scare, California Nurses Push For Strict Safety Standards
After a possible Ebola case surfaced in Sacramento, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United called for transparency and…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Heart Association, Cancer Society See E-Cigarettes As Last Resort
Two well-known public-health organizations aren't exactly giving a seal of approval to electronic cigarettes, but in recent policy…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Hunger Study Exposes Military Families Living on ‘Financial Edge’
In response to national survey findings indicating military families are visiting food banks more frequently than their civilian…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Paul Ryan Changes His Tune on the Charitable Deduction
The lawmaker who will likely oversee the tax reform effort in Congress next year publicly voiced support for…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Report: Football Making a Comeback With High Schoolers
According to a new report from the National Federation of State High School Associations, football saw its first…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Open-Source Social Network Diaspora Grapples With Terror Group
The free ideals of social network Diaspora, an open-source platform built by a nonprofit foundation, were put to…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Governors to Congress: Stop ‘Fire Borrowing,’ Fix Wildfire Funding
Members of the Western Governors’ Association are asking congressional leaders to help better fund wildfire suppression efforts, noting…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
ABA Says LGBT Discrimination Violates Human Rights
The American Bar Association House of Delegates declared last week that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people have…
