Word: columnism
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...figured that when 2010 finally arrived, I'd be here in Los Angeles on my videophone looking at my new editor in her formfitting silver bodysuit as she yelled at me from New York for sexually harassing her in the first sentence of the first column we worked on together. But even though we both have Skype, we haven't used it once. In fact, even though Skype is the only one of all the cool gadgets that cartoons promised me would exist by 2010, people don't seem nearly as excited as they should be. Only 34% of Skype...
...Medicaid-expansion proposal would cost the Federal Government about $395 billion from 2010 to 2019 under the Senate bill or about $425 billion under the House bill. The state share of the expansion, in contrast, would be $26 billion or $34 billion. Moving the state costs into the federal column, as Nelson is now suggesting, would increase the cost of legislation, which is already close to the $900 billion limit set by President Obama. Then again, House and Senate leaders are currently negotiating all sorts of adjustments for a merged bill, and any new Medicaid costs could be part...
...that? There's no upside for them. There have been a few cases where open-access colleges that don't have much to lose will try to get their data out there. A couple of years ago, I wrote a column about the University of Nebraska at Omaha - there's the University of Nebraska, which is the one with the football team, and Omaha is the commuter campus. The Omaha campus administered the Collegiate Learning Assessment, and when they issued a press release saying, "We did really, really well," they were yelled at and condemned by a lot of people...
Todd A. Gitlin '63, a journalism and sociology professor at Columbia University, agreed it was unethical for Tripsas to write the column after being paid by its principal subject. He added that The Times should take more preventative measures by requiring its writers to disclose potential conflicts of interest...
Tripsas' violation follows a string of ethics violations involving freelance writers. According to Hoyt's Jan. 2 column, Joshua Robinson is no longer working for the organization after allegedly presenting himself as a Times reporter to obtain free plane tickets. Mike Albo was also let go after accepting a free trip to Jamaica. Hoyt's Dec. 12 column indicated that freelancer Suzy Buckley's Nov. 22 review of Miami destinations included a restaurant co-owned by a former boyfriend...