Amy Schumer is kind of a ‘big deal’
Amy Schumer was riding back from a radio appearance in Seattle the other week when she asked the driver to stop and let her out. After weeks on the road...
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Dumpster diving: What’s on the menu is what’s in the trash
S EATTLE -- He's an anthropology grad student, so David Giles has one foot in the ivory tower. But the other one? It's squarely in the garbage. For his doctoral...
What’s on the menu is what’s in the Dumpster
SEATTLE -- He's an anthropology grad student, so David Giles has one foot in the ivory tower. But the other one? It's squarely in the garbage. For his doctoral thesis,...
Business of education: Obama looking out for college students
Obama administration rules promise to strengthen federal student-aid programs as well as protect students from the aggressive and deceptive recruiting practices that are the norm at many career colleges. A...
Tighten online privacy
Anyone venturing into the Internet knows their online life is an open book. Forgive the mixed metaphor, but the knowledge virtually every keystroke is being monitored is both understood and...
Keep the Internet open, accessible, creative
The debate over preserving open, equal access to the Internet took a hard, sharp turn away from the theoretical toward a grim future of toll booths on the information superhighway....
Tea party’s bigotry is disturbing
Criticizing the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is as timeless and American as baseball. But no president in history has had so much racist vitriol directed at him as...
Community colleges can boost job growth
Can everyone stop beating up President Obama over our double-digit unemployment rate? Last week, the Congressional Black Caucus piled on, pointing out that the unemployment rate for blacks between the...
FCC protects Internet neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission's net-neutrality proposals unveiled last week are important steps toward protecting the Internet from monopoly power. A hint of that power came a year and a half...
FCC protects Net neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission's net-neutrality proposals unveiled last week are important steps toward protecting the Internet from monopoly power. A hint of that power came a year and a half...