- Arizona officials say “accents were never the focus” of teacher fluency monitoring suspended at feds’ insistence [NYTNS, earlier] Reactions to my piece last week include columnist “Johnson” at The Economist (taking issue) and Hans Bader and Carrie Lukas (favorable);
- Another highlight of new “jobs” bill: financial institution customers would help pay for auto bailouts [John Berlau]
- Key New Orleans Police Department officer in charge of integrity of traffic-cam program accused of altering own plates [WWL] Red light cameras defended [Noah Kristula-Green, FrumForum] Why Massachusetts won’t raise the speed limit on Route 3 north of Burlington (NMA blog via @radleybalko)
- Eight bad reasons for going to law school [Campos] Law schools have demographic but not socioeconomic diversity [Richard Sander, Denver U. Law Review via Legal Ethics Forum] And besides my own contribution on law school reform at the recent Truth on the Market symposium, check out the contributions by Hans Bader and Larry Ribstein;
- Fellow federal agency FERC worried that EPA’s power-plant crackdown could lead to outages [WSJ] EPA’s plan to regulate dust from farmers’ fields led to public opinion blowback for President Obama [Diane Katz/Heritage, Environmental Legal Blogs, Radley Balko] Shutting down EPA isn’t likely under GOP reign, but reforming EPA might be [Adler, NYT “Room for Debate”]
- Left rallies around New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman [Ben Smith, Politico]
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As a Louisiana resident, and worker in New Orleans, I cannot help but enjoy this schadenfreude pie handed to me.
Armed with an app that points them out, I avoid those intersections like the plague. When I can’t, I make especially sure to stop at the intersection when the light turns yellow.
It’s smirk bringing when it seems that the NOPD believes that “The law is for the little people, but not for me.”
The Economist essay says “Only a teacher who is frequently being misunderstood by students should be sent to mandatory training. ”
Straw dogs are in season.
Philip Howard has been talking about The Death of Common Sense for many years and I and Mr. Olson have been fans of Mr. Howard for almost as long. I believe that Mr. Howard, Mr. Olson and I would be against talk police, but for digression of school administrator to require language therapy for problem cases without being subject to law suits.