A good part of an entire generation of students may turn off to all mathematically involved careers.

Hospitals might be the only business in America that gets away with keeping their prices a secret. This prevents competition, drives up health care costs, and leaves consumers in the dark. Hospitals should post their actual prices on the web, just like every other business.

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I am a user of the library and have found it very helpful to be able to reserve all sorts of library material such as books, DVDs and CDs from all over the state. The library just recently started a weekly email called Wowbury that lets you know which new material is available.

Here in Evansville, we feel very left-out, we want to be apart of the 7Eleven franchise, help them prosper. In Evansville, you'll find great opportunities for business. As well, we do technically have a "Seven-Eleven", but that is some fake knockoff. They don't have any slurpees, just a bunch of fat drunken mid-40s men who are going through a mid-life crisis, from being divorced, or just being charged with child neglect, no one likes it over-there, and for all we care, you can tear that down and plant your seed ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) So please, 7 Eleven, give us a PROPER 7-Eleven, we'd greatly appreciate it, and when you're at it, take out that knockoff, you'll be doing us all a favor.

As an employee of HFI, a Bloomington HVAC/Construction firm, I believe the repeal of the Common Wage Law will adversely affect our business and the wages of all Indiana construction employees.

ITT-Technical Institute targeted veterans, low income families and single parents. We were promised a quality education, 80% job placement and that our credits would transfer to other colleges and universities. They forced many of us to pay on our loans while we were in school, after telling us we did not have to pay anything out of pocket until after we graduated. The school never gave us a chance to have control of our financial destiny; they failed to tell students before signing the enrollment agreement that their financial aide would be maxed out by the school. In order for a student to finish the program, they will have to take out the "Temp Credit" through the school at 0% interest until paid off; that was a lie. The school turned around and sold those loans to private lenders with interest rates ranging from 13%-28%; it's like funding your education on a credit card. These were terms set by the banks and the school without the student ever being notified. This is a violation of the Truth In Lending Act. Many students were forced to quit their programs before ever gaining their degrees, because they were misled. Others stuck it out, to find out that their degrees hold no value due to the accreditation, value of education and their reputation. We are students, family, friends and supporters that will not stop fighting to get these loans forgiven. Education should be free in the country, putting a end to the predatory lending and the poverty it is creating. "Our voices will be heard." We stand with you, Corinthian 100, Strength in Solidarity. https://www.facebook.com/groups/ITTTechnicalInstituteLawsuitWarriors/

By executive order, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has directed all state agencies to review nearly all regulations with the mandate that none should exceed federal requirements. Baker wants to dismantle and dumb down regulations governing the state's water and air quality standards, worker safety requirement, and health regulations. This will hurt businesses that are civic-minded with responsible best practices while rewarding the few that cut corners. Baker acts as if throwing every regulation up in the air will be good for businesses. Baker wants only regulations that do not "unduly and adversely affect Massachusetts citizens and customers of the Commonwealth." Moving on to public transportation, Governor Baker ignored the MBTA during the blizzards of 2015. Given no respect, the general manager Beverly Scott resigned. When the MBTA was running again, Baker called for all members of the independent MBTA Board of Directors to resign. Baker, a former CEO and in a command-and-control approach where the buck stops with him, called for the formation of a financial control board composed entirely of the Governor's handpicked individuals. My family and I want access to affordable public transportation, clean water and clean air. Footnote: M.T.A. by Jackie Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes Let me tell you the story of a man named Charlie On a dark and fateful day He put ten cents in his pocket and he kissed his loving family And he went to ride the MTA. Did he ever return? No, he never returned And his fate is still unlearned He may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Boston He’s the man who never returned. This song is based on the history of Boston's transit system. Called the M.T.A in 1949; today it's simply called the T. Trouble for Charlie was he had the dime to get on train but not the nickel to get off. If only his wife had handed Charlie a nickel instead of a sandwich his fate would not still be "unlearned." Prior to 1949, Boston's public transit system was privatized. When private businesses failed to make a profit at running the system, they sold it back to Boston for a profit. The nickel charge was added to pay off the private investors. Today's governor, a former businessman, is once again taking the traditional command-and-control, one man ultimately responsible approach instead of a robust collaborative participatory approach to managing a very complex and dynamic system known as the MBTA, where the rider passes are fondly called "Charlie Cards." Let's consider a MBTA turnstile outside Baker's office, a dime to get in and dollar to get out, complete with special customer fares and better treatment for citizens.

I have a disabled son, he is now in his thirties. He has been a inspiration to me and family all his life, it would be very hard on everyone concerned if IRIS was eliminated! It is a fantastic program, and has allowed my son to stay at home. Please reconsider the proposal. Thank you.

As a committed public school parent and taxpayer, I am concerned that online charters are stealing taxpayer dollars.

I and many fellow Americans face difficult prospects in IT tech fields. It's become "de rigueur" for corporations to hire H1B Indians instead of Americans. It's reverse-discrimination on the basis of nationality and visa status.

***I did NOT creat this article! It is a portion of the article called, "Why ban the sale of cigarettes? The case for abolition" by Robert N Proctor.*** The cigarette is the deadliest object in the history of human civilisation. Cigarettes kill about 6 million people every year, a number that will grow before it shrinks. Smoking in the twentieth century killed only 100 million people, whereas a billion could perish in our century unless we reverse course.1 Even if present rates of consumption drop steadily to zero by 2100, we will still have about 300 million tobacco deaths this century. The cigarette is also a defective product, meaning not just dangerous but unreasonably dangerous, killing half its long-term users. And addictive by design. It is fully within the power of the Food and Drug Administration in the US, for instance, to require that the nicotine in cigarettes be reduced to subcompensable, subaddictive levels.2 ,3 This is not hard from a manufacturing point of view: the nicotine alkaloid is water soluble, and denicotinised cigarettes were already being made in the 19th century.4 Philip Morris in the 1980s set up an entire factory to make its Next brand cigarettes, using supercritical fluid extraction techniques to achieve a 97% reduction in nicotine content, which is what would be required for a 0.1% nicotine cigarette, down from present values of about 2%.5 Keep in mind that we're talking about nicotine content in the rod as opposed to deliveries measured by the ‘FTC method’, which cannot capture how people actually smoke.5 Cigarettes are also defective because they have been engineered to produce an inhalable smoke. Tobacco smoke was rarely inhaled prior to the nineteenth century; it was too harsh, too alkaline. Smoke first became inhalable with the invention of flue curing, a technique by which the tobacco leaf is heated during fermentation, preserving the sugars naturally present in the unprocessed leaf. Sugars when they burn produce acids, which lower the pH of the resulting smoke, making it less harsh, more inhalable. There is a certain irony here, since these ‘milder’ cigarettes were actually far more deadly, allowing smoke to be drawn deep into the lungs. The world's present epidemic of lung cancer is almost entirely due to the use of low pH flue-cured tobacco in cigarettes, an industry-wide practice that could be reversed at any time. Regulatory agencies should mandate a significant reduction in rod-content nicotine, but they should also require that no cigarette be sold with a smoke pH lower than 8. Those two mandates alone would do more for public health than any previous law in history.5 Death and product defect are two reasons to abolish the sale of cigarettes, but there are others. A third is the financial burden on public and private treasuries, principally from the costs of treating illnesses due to smoking. Cigarette use also results in financial losses from diminished labor productivity, and in many parts of the world makes the poor even poorer.6 A fourth reason is that the cigarette industry is a powerful corrupting force in human civilisation. Big tobacco has corrupted science by sponsoring ‘decoy’ or ‘distraction research’,5 but it has also corrupted popular media, insofar as newspapers and magazines dependent on tobacco advertising for revenues have been reluctant to publish critiques of cigarettes.7 The industry has corrupted even the information environment of its own workforce, as when Philip Morris paid its insurance provider (CIGNA) to censor the health information sent to corporate employees.8Tobacco companies have bullied, corrupted or exploited countless other institutions: the American Medical Association, the American Law Institute, sports organisations, fire-fighting bodies, Hollywood, the US Congress—even the US presidency and US military. President Lyndon Johnson refused to endorse the 1964 Surgeon General's report, for instance, fearing alienation of the tobacco-friendly South. Cigarette makers managed even to thwart the US Navy's efforts to go smoke-free. In 1986, the Navy had announced a goal of creating a smoke-free Navy by the year 2000; tobacco-friendly congressmen were pressured to thwart that plan, and a law was passed requiring that all ships sell cigarettes and allow smoking. The result: American submarines were not smoke-free until 2011.9 Cigarettes are also, though, a significant cause of harm to the natural environment. Cigarette manufacturing consumes scarce resources in growing, curing, rolling, flavouring, packaging, transport, advertising and legal defence, but also causes harms from massive pesticide use and deforestation. Many Manhattans of savannah woodlands are lost every year to obtain the charcoal used for flue curing. Cigarette manufacturing also produces non-trivial greenhouse gas emissions, principally from the fossil fuels used for curing and transport, fires from careless disposal of butts, and increased medical costs from maladies caused by smoking5 (China produces 40 percent of the world's cigarettes, for example, and uses mainly coal to cure its tobacco leaf). And cigarette makers have provided substantial funding and institutional support for global climate change deniers, causing further harm.10 Cigarettes are not sustainable in a world of global warming; indeed they are one of its overlooked and easily preventable causes. But the sixth and most important reason for abolition is the fact that smokers themselves do not like their habit. This is a key point: smoking is not a recreational drug; most smokers do not like the fact they smoke and wish they could quit. This means that cigarettes are very different from alcohol or even marijuana. Only about 10–15% of people who drink liquor ever become alcoholics, versus addiction rates of 80% or 90% for people who smoke.11 As an influential Canadian tobacco executive once confessed: smoking is not like drinking, it is rather like being an alcoholic.12 Sourc...