POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Trump Jr. to Trib: Dad Will ‘Separate’ from Business Interests if Elected BY TOM FONTAINE | Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, 7:39 p.m. Donald Trump Jr. dismissed a new report Wednesday that his family’s international business interests could present conflicts and ethical quandaries should his father be elected president. “My father is going to be a…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Writing for AlterNet, Alex Kotch explains in great detail “Charles Koch’s Six-Step Guide to Founding a Free-Market Center at Your University.” The article is based on recordings made at a Koch-sponsored conference. Here is a substantial portion of the introductory section of Kotch’s article: “Since 1980, the family foundations of billionaire…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The Department of Education has released two lists of universities and four-year colleges with “good outcomes” for low-income students. The first list simply measures tuition costs against income after graduation. The second list is limited to institutions at which at least 40% of the student populations can be described as low-income.…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is an item from tonight’s CNN Reliable Sources: “No More ‘Ailes Newsroom’ “Breaking news from Athens, OH: ‘Roger Ailes‘ name will be removed from a WOUB newsroom, Ohio University President Roderick McDavis announced” this evening, per the student paper The Post. ‘McDavis gave no exact date for its removal, but the letters of Ailes’ name were…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH “$100,000 For Inauguration Night at Trump’s D.C. Hotel: That’s a tremendous amount, but apparently that’s what it will cost to stay at the Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C., for the night in the Presidential Suite. That said, the hotel’s perch on Pennsylvania Ave is as front-row as you can get for…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Here are several of the opening paragraphs of an article written by Des Bieler for the Washington Post: “he NCAA announced Monday that it was moving its slate of 2016-17 championship events set to be played in North Carolina out of that state. The college sports governing body made its decision…
BY MARTIN KICH CNN contributor and Trump campaign surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes has accused Hillary Clinton of deserving to be called a “bigot” because she has denounced racists and white supremacists: “’Bigotry, if you look at the definition, it’s about someone who’s small-minded and sits there and directs hate towards a certain group. Hillary Clinton’s…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following statistics are from a ProPublica report, “Median Income Is Down, But Public College Tuition Is Way Up,” prepared by Fan Fei: The report, which includes a feature that allows you to identify the tuition increase at any public university or college in the country, is available at:…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This item appeared in the HuffPost Hill daily newsletter for September 8, 2016: WHAT YOUR REPUBLICAN UNCLE WILL BE EMAILING YOU IN A WEEK OR SO–Seth Borenstein: “It’s no Nobel Peace Prize, but Barack Obama has a new honor to brag about. Scientists have named a parasite after him—and there’s no worming…
BY MARTIN KICH Trump could not let Clinton’s “deplorables” comment go without a self-serving tweet: Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump While Hillary said horrible things about my supporters, and while many of her supporters will never vote for me, I still respect them all! 2:18 PM – 10 Sep 2016 And that tweet became an…