Parents and privacy experts are blasting a new national database that compiles personal student information for educational companies that contract with public schools. New York State officials, working with the city, have already uploaded students' names, addresses,...
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MLK and His Guns
Most people think King would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection. In fact, he even applied for a permit to carry a concealed weapon. A recipient of constant death...
SEC Hits Illinois with Securities Fraud Charges
Illinois broke federal securities laws in misstating the true health of the state's depleted pension funds when going out onto the bond market between 2005 and early 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday. ... The finding of securities fraud...