| Athletes' Case May Rewrite Money Rules For NCAA In 1995, Ed O'Bannon was a forward on the UCLA Bruins team that won the NCCA tournament. This year, he's among several former college athletes taking the NCAA to... | |
| Letters: Carp, Tourism, 'Hurt Locker' March 9, 2010 The Israeli Embassy responds to the story on the tariffs on Asian carp, and listeners respond to the U.S. effort to jumpstart tourism and the story on the Oscar-winning... |
| Stolen Valor Offensive, But Is It Criminal? March 9, 2010 The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 makes it a federal crime to claim unearned military honors. Attorney Jonathan Turley agrees that stolen valor is offensive, but argues that it's also... |
| Editorial: Crime and pensions Rich retirement perks enjoyed by public workers -- including police and firefighters -- are making it harder to fight crime in Michigan. Corralling the surging costs of those pension and health care... |
| Editorial: Proposed ban on new electronic billboards premature State lawmakers in the House Great Lakes and Environment Committee are slated later this week to take up legislation imposing a two-year moratorium on digital billboards -- signs that have electronic... |
| James P. Hoffa: Tea Party protesters pick wrong target When I listen to the Tea Party tax protesters, I hear that they're mad as hell. They're angry about deficit spending, and they believe that government is undermining free enterprise for the benefit... |
| David Brooks: Emotion blinds backers of federal health reform Emotion blinds backers of federal health reform We all have our emotional hot and cold spots. For the Democrats, expanding health care coverage is an emotional hot spot. During the past year,... |
| Forget food activism, Hollywood From the Oscar nod for the anti-farming documentary "Food, Inc." to Gwyneth Paltrow hyping meatless recipes in her "GOOP" newsletter, Hollywood's enthusiasm for all things vegan and organic seems to... |
| Special letter: Let 'will of the majority' prevail Advertisement And the filibuster makes matters worse. Will essentially is arguing that 41 Republican senators (representing 231 million voters) should be able to block action by 57 Democratic... |
| Letters: Take scalpel to health bill? Congressman John Dingell's piece (" 'Do whatever it takes' to repair broken system," March 4) quotes a Commonwealth Fund study that says health care costs would be dramatically lower had we... |
| Debate on honesty in government — Our view: House ethics enforcers leave Congress mired in the muck pushed through more stringent rules, vowed stricter enforcement and famously promised to "drain the swamp." Well, she's going to need a bigger pump. So far, the supposedly invigorated... |
| Opposing view: The ethics process is working leadership over the past three years, the House has initiated unprecedented ethics reforms that have produced real results for both members of Congress and the public. When Democrats became the... |
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| Column: Not that hungry for change — the very party that's stubbornly resisting change? And why should so many voters express increasing distrust, and even resentment, of the... |
| Column: Tell my 5-year-old that we've given up on space My 5-year-old daughter knows their names: Earhart, Lindbergh, Yeager, Shepard, Glenn, Armstrong, Aldrin, Gagarin. In New York, she has visited the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and attended... |
| Letters: Analysis on federal salaries misses important factors letters@usatoday.com . Letters for print consideration are edited for accuracy, clarity and length, and comments of 250 words or fewer have the best chance of being published. Letters that include... |
| Letters: Factory workers need to train for backup career letters@usatoday.com . Letters for print consideration are edited for accuracy, clarity and length, and comments of 250 words or fewer have the best chance of being published. Letters that include... |
| Letters: Exporting some bluefin is OK letters@usatoday.com . Letters for print consideration are edited for accuracy, clarity and length, and comments of 250 words or fewer have the best chance of being published. Letters that include... |
| TSA nominee merits Senate confirmation P resident Barack Obama has taken his sweet time about finding someone to head the Transportation Security Administration even though Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano says the job is... |
| A lesson in hardball When Mayor Tom Menino got wind of Roth’s comments he fired off a letter calling such a tactic “simply outrageous.” “The notion that you would cause this to occur - not due to... |
| Asia Markets Little Changed as China’s Exports Surge China’s Exports Jump 45.7 Percent (March 9, 2010) HONG KONG (AP) -- Asian stock markets were little changed Wednesday even as surging Chinese exports pointed to a pickup in global trade. The... |
| Myanmar Bars Democracy Advocate From Election The new law, the Political Parties Registration Law, prohibits anyone convicted of a crime from being a member of an official party. Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the... |
| Dalai Lama: China Aims to Annihilate Buddhism Dalai Lama said Wednesday that Chinese authorities had rebuffed all his efforts to reach a compromise over Tibet and had instead engaged in systematic repression as part of a plan to ''annihilate... |
| Tasmanian Devil Colony Shows Immunity to Cancer Filed at 12:32 a.m. ET ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) -- Australian scientists said Wednesday that the discovery of a genetically distinct colony of Tasmanian devils may save the species from being wiped... |
| Law Bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi From Elections Aung San Suu Kyi from running in upcoming elections and may force her own political party to expel her under a new election law unveiled Wednesday. The Political Parties Registration Law, published... |
| NH Campaign Finance Activist Granny D Dies at 100 Filed at 12:33 a.m. ET CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Doris ''Granny D'' Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic... |
