The Wall Street Journal, The Numbers Guy, February 18, 2012 by Carl Bialik
http://on.wsj.com/GEWpix
“This is, in a sense, an issue of what the right debt measure is,” says Alan Auerbach, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley. “Implicit liabilities belong in there somewhere, although there is no simple aggregation.”
National Public Radio, February 17, 2012 by Richard Gonzalez
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/17/147042596/for-cash-murderer-leads-police-to-victims-remains
“We don’t want criminals to benefit from their wrongdoing,” he says. “On the other hand, we want the sense of closure, we want the information, we want the location of remains.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, The Tech Chronicles, February 17, 2012 by James Temple
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/author/jamestemple/
Apple operates from an entirely different frame. Instead of spreading mediocre “free” products, the user pays for Apple products, and thus the customer is the consumer. For Google and the cabal of “free” service providers out there, the customer is the advertising industry.
-San Francisco Chronicle, Dot.Commentary, February 18, 2012 by James Temple
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/17/BUSO1N9ASP.DTL
Chris Hoofnagle, a digital privacy expert at UC Berkeley’s law school, said there’s a corporate tone-deafness within the engineering-centric culture of Google that leads to these sorts of mistakes. “To the engineer, cookie blocking appears to be a technical error that they should try to solve,” he said. “It’s very difficult for them to accept the frame that some people do not want this tracking.”
Dateline UC Davis, February 17, 2012 by Dateline Staff
http://dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.php?id=13879
Edley cited the vast size of UC Davis, bigger than what the city of Davis is prepared for, and the value of the campus’s having its own police department comprising officers who reflect the values and concerns of the campus community, and who think of themselves as part of that community.
City Paper, February 15, 2012 by Michael Corbin
http://citypaper.com/arts/on-target-1.1271737
As recently as a decade ago, he says, many believed such reductions “were not possible…. And New York shows those numbers are not an essential part of city life, any city.” There is no reason to think Baltimore’s numbers can’t be significantly lower, he tells me.
Environment & Energy News, February 3, 2012 by Lawrence Hurley
http://www.eenews.net/public/eenewspm/2012/02/03/1
“As Fletcher writes, it has long been the rule that agencies must evaluate the environmental consequences of their actions when it is reasonably possible to do so.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 13, 2012 by Mary Ann Mason
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Next-Step-for-Female/130717/
A mass of bureaucratic and regulatory blockages must be pushed through in order to achieve a flexible workplace in which having both a family and a career is possible. A critical block is that while federal agencies largely finance the graduate students, postdocs, and faculty members who create new scientific breakthroughs, it is universities that determine personnel issues.
California Watch, February 13, 2012 by Bernice Yeung
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/southern-californians-risk-death-air-pollution-epa-says-14843
“There is strong industry opposition to these regulations and strong opposition from groups who are ideologically opposed to regulation in general,” Farber wrote in an e-mail. “EPA’s most important role in terms of economic impact and public health relates to air pollution. So it’s not surprising that this is the area where EPA is being attacked.”
San Francisco Chronicle, Dot.Commentary, February 10, 2012 by James Temple
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/10/BUJ31N4R67.DTL
In an interview, he said European—particularly German—perceptions are rooted in 19th century philosophers such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, as well as the way private information was used against citizens under communist rule and dictators like Adolf Hitler. “Americans just feel more comfortable with this rough-and-tumble social discourse,” he said.
-San Jose Mercury News, February 9, 2012 by Matt O’Brien
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19924113
Kohli said the biometric worker card carrying unique physical markers is “an idea that’s come up again and again from different political leaders, and it keeps coming up.”
-SecureIDNews, February 10, 2012
http://www.secureidnews.com/2012/02/10/new-report-predicts-financial-and-civil-obstacles-for-biometric-id-card
A new report created by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law & Social Policy at UC Berkeley School of Law predicts a price tag of at least $40 billion for a mandatory biometric employment verification card for all U.S. workers that would utilize either fingerprint or fingervein scans.