Accountability

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• Liberal Professor Marc Lamont Hill Appears On O’Reilly’s Show After Murdoch Said He Had Been Fired

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  Last night on the O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly brought on Marc Lamont Hill and Mary Katharine Hamm to talk about Iran’s nuclear weapons program. He introduced Hamm as a “Fox News analyst” and called Hill — who was filling in for NPR reporter Juan Williams — a professor from Columbia University. ...
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• A Developing Scandal in Oklahoma

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 592
  In September a survey of Oklahoma high school students found only 2.8 percent were able to achieve a passing score on the U.S. Citizenship Test. The actual test has a 92.4 percent pass rate, so it would be quite a problem if Oklahoma high schoolers performed so poorly. But, thankfully, the results appear to have ...
  7 hours ago

• One Small Win For the “Little Guy”

  
  CA on Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) — Authority: 121
  I came across an interesting article recently that illustrates what I believe is a slight but discernible trend towards increasing regulatory accountability on the part of business.  In effect, businesses are being held more accountable for providing customer environments in which they meet not only the letter, but ...
  13 hours ago

• Give Me Harvard or Give Me Death

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 131
  Parental anxiety is ruining playtime, notes the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss.  It’s not news that lots of preschool parents have become “super-anxious trying to give their kids a leg up on kindergarten,” Strauss writes at The Answer Sheet.  “But I didn’t realize just how nutty things had become ...
  13 hours ago

• Customer Care: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

  
  The Pipeline — Authority: 120
  Part I: The Good and The Bad While I usually focus on B2B occasionally I need to unload as a consumer, especially when I encounter three very different experiences I faced as customers. One good, the other truly bad, and the third, well, that was down right ugly. There seems to be two trends in customer service I ...
  15 hours ago

• Val Valley Pep Squad

  
  NOBODY PASSES, darling — Authority: 129
  In the kitchen, we would remind each other to breathe and to chew, we were trying to stay calm but we also celebrated our mania; we held each other and made carrot juice with ginger and then we would read, honey we would read. The first person JoAnne read was Garrett, she couldn’t deal with the way that he wanted ...
  18 hours ago

• Literacy Challenges of The Social Technographic Ladder

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 121
  The ladder. Charlene Li and Josh Bernofff have written a great book titled Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies . In their book they describe The Social Technographics ladder. “Each step on the ladder represents a group of consumers moreinvolved in the groundswell than the ...
  19 hours ago

• Power to the People?

  
  Lubbock Left — Authority: 114
  It’s been another one of those weeks where I get caught up with my life. Most notably, West Texas Comic Con came and went and was a great success. In the meantime, some nut shot up Fort Hood, health care reform passed the House, and another crooked Republican Hale County Commissioner got arrested . Also, ...
  20 hours ago

• A Squeeze on Customers Ahead of New Rules

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Senator Christopher J. Dodd at a hearing in September. He is pushing legislation that would freeze interest rates on existing balances until the new credit card law takes effect next year.
  21 hours ago

• Who is “Joe Low”?

  
  anilnetto.com — Authority: 430
  That’s a good question. The Malaysian Insider carried a Singapore Straits Times report on 15 July describing Penang-born Low as supposedly being part of Najib’s inner circle. Check it out here: Joe Low Another low-profile businessman, he was a key architect of a multibillion-ringgit sovereign wealth fund ...
  22 hours ago

• SexEd Abstracts Due For SexTech Summit: Not Your Mother’s Media

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 120
  Nov. 8, 2009 One of our SexTech.org ‘top ten’ posts continues to be the Top Ten Teen SexEd videos created by students, for students in an effort to improve the lousy coverage of an inevitably touchy subject in schools. If you’re unfamiliar with Isis-Inc.org (Internet Sexuality Information ...
  1 day ago

• Murdoch: Glenn Beck Was ‘Right’ To Say Obama Is ‘A Racist’ With ‘A Deep-Seated Hatred For White People’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  After President Obama inserted himself into the July spat between Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Officer Jim Crowley, Glenn Beck infamously declared on Fox & Friends that Obama “exposed himself” with the incident “as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people , or ...
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• Join Me Tomorrow on Hashtag Social Media to Talk About ROI

  
  Social Media Marketing Strategy, Tactics, and Tools — Authority: 121
  Tomorrow I’m hosting the Hashtag Social Media conversation and it’s going to be all about ROI in the social media space.  Previous hosts of the event include Brian Solis, Jason Falls, Aaron Strout, and Scott Monty; so I’m really thrilled to be a part of this.  The folks over at Hashtag wrote this blog post ...
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• Dont Ask, Dont Give: A Boycott

  
  On Transmigration — Authority: 427
  John and Joe over at AMERICAblog launched this boycott earlier today. The cosponsors are some of the best around. It seems the effort is being picked up by (gasp!) traditional media outlets. Yeah, shocking, I know. Heres the deal. Earlier today, we launched "Dont Ask, Dont Give," a donor boycott of the DNC: ...
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• Good-bye to Anonymity. Hello to Accountability.

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  I will now only accept comments from known people, from people who are registered, and from people who I can contact, as needed, off this blog.I realise this may mean that some women (and trans and intersex people, and men) who wish to post comments here may not be able to as they once were, but going through a simple ...
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• Government Transparency Done Right

  
  Show-Me Daily — Authority: 433
  On Friday, the state of Missouri surprised me. I’m used to long waits, unreturned phone calls, and copying fees whenever I ask a local or state official for public records. So, when I called the folks at the Missouri Accountability Portal (MAP), a state government website devoted to making state spending and ...
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• Yoo Withdrew: Amidst Growing Call for Criminal Investigation, Torture Memos Author John Yoo Withdraws from Federalist Society Panel

  
  Justice Watch — Authority: 414
  Amidst a growing call for a criminal investigation of the DOJ lawyers who authorized torture, John Yoo, author of the most infamous of the “torture memos” withdrew as a speaker at the conservative Federalist Society Convention where Alliance for Justice and human rights supporters are scheduled to take action . ...
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• THE DSS MYSTERY: WHERE DID MONEY GO? (MECKLENBURG COUNTY DSS, NORTH CAROLINA)

  
  Stop Corrupt DSS — Authority: 427
  The DSS mystery: Where did money go?   E-mails show officials suspected misspending, but they have never said who was at fault for disappearance of $162,000 in donations for needy kids   http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/1044222.html By Fred Clasen-Kelly frkelly@charlotteobserver.com ...
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• STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SLAMS DHHR OVER FOSTER CARE SYSTEM

  
  Stop Corrupt DSS — Authority: 427
  State Supreme Court justice slams DHHR over foster care system   http://www.register-herald.com/statenews/local_story_306120858.html The Associated Press By Tom Breen Associated Press Writer CHARLESTON — For the second time this year, a state Supreme Court justice has blasted the Department of ...
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• DSHS TO PAY $525,001 TO SETTLE RECORDS LAWSUIT

  
  Stop Corrupt DSS — Authority: 427
  DSHS to pay $525,001 to settle records lawsuit   Abused children: Agency admits to errors   http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/1027189.html?mi_pluck_action=comment_submitted&qwxq=4762396#Comments_Container BRAD SHANNON; The Olympian The state Department of Social and Health Services ...
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