Every year it seems to get worse, or better, depending on your perspective, notes Ron Coleman. Earlier years here, here, here, etc., as well as “Who Dat?”
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New frontiers in climate change policy
Not a satire: a study suggests ditching school choice would reduce carbon emissions from bus rides [Caleb Brown]
“School districts spend thousands on litigation over special education”
It’s happening in central Pennsylvania too. [Harrisburg Patriot-News]
“The greatest risk is living swaddled in bubble wrap”
What some have labelled “a worst-case scenario” approach to daily life has even reached Whitehall, the seat of [British] government itself. In front of the magnificent horse guards who stand guard in rain and shine to the delight of tourists, someone has placed an official sign on the pavement explaining, just in case humanity hadn’t twigged the fact, that “these horses may kick or bite”.
[Michael Simkins, National (Emirates) via Legal Blog Watch]
Class action over XBox downloads, cont’d
The actual content of the complaint isn’t quite as reported, per Siouxsie Law (earlier).
NYC’s unfireable “rubber room” teachers
How bad do these stories get? This bad. More: Radley Balko on a Hoboken cop; and commenter VMS criticizes the linked New York Post report.
“Lawyers Ask Court To Stop Toyota From Fixing Cars”
The Truth About Cars has the details. I’ve got a bunch of background links at Point of Law.
“More airlines make large passengers buy two seats”
Defying the prospect of lawsuits, more airlines are imposing new rules on “customers of size.” [David Landsel, AirfareWatchdog.com] Earlier here, etc.
Better uses for the $2,000
On Martha’s Vineyard, the town of Chilmark, Mass. would rather not spend $2,000 per election cycle on federally mandated technology to help its one visually impaired voter. In the past the town has offered voters with poor or no eyesight a range of less costly choices including large print ballots and their choice of a person to read the ballot to them. [Megan Dooley, Vineyard Gazette via Ira Stoll, Future of Capitalism]
Claim: underfunding of Chicago transit authority constitutes racial bias
Subsidies are better for the Metra commuter rail line than for the city subways, which carry a more heavily minority ridership, says the class-action lawsuit against the State of Illinois, the RTA and the Metra. [Jennifer Fernicola, ChicagoNow]