10Dec/14

Americans can give a boatload more cash to politicians if end-of-year budget … – Palm Beach Post (blog)

Americans can give a boatload more cash to politicians if end-of-year budget
Palm Beach Post (blog)
“At a time when most Americans already feel like their voices are not being heard in Washington, this language gives special interests even more say in the democratic process by drastically expanding how much money America’s wealthiest donors can give

10Dec/14

Organ donation forever links families – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle


Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Organ donation forever links families
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
LoMonaco said she’d never thought about organ donation until one day in 2010 when she heard about a man who walked into a hospital and said he wanted to donate a kidney. It made her want to do the same. She researched the process but kept the idea …

10Dec/14

‘The Most Corrupting Campaign-Finance Provisions Ever Enacted’ – The Atlantic


The Atlantic

‘The Most Corrupting Campaign-Finance Provisions Ever Enacted’
The Atlantic
With a last-minute provision tacked onto page 1,599 of the 1,603-page, $1.013 trillion spending bill, Congress is moving to fill the void left by the stripping of public funds for the party conventions by dramatically increasing the amount that

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10Dec/14

FDA Panel Endorses Lifetime Ban on Gay Blood Donation, Suggests Gay Men … – Slate Magazine (blog)


Slate Magazine (blog)

FDA Panel Endorses Lifetime Ban on Gay Blood Donation, Suggests Gay Men
Slate Magazine (blog)
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration’s Blood Products Advisory Panel met to discuss lifting the government’s 31-year-old ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men. Currently, any man who has had sexual contact with another man …
FDA Panel: Don’t Let Gay Men Give BloodMother Jones
FDA Ponders Letting Gay Men Donate Blood, Decides To Just Leave It AloneBustle
FDA considering lifting ban on gays donating bloodKFOX El Paso

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10Dec/14

Fundraising expansion slipped into spending deal could power financial … – Washington Post (blog)


Raw Story

Fundraising expansion slipped into spending deal could power financial
Washington Post (blog)
(RELATED: Deal reached on $1.01 trillion spending bill). While there would be some restrictions on how parties could use those donations, the creation of new, wider lanes for money to travel into the parties would be a major boon, campaign finance
Omnibus Bill Allows Wealthy Donors To Give Even More to Political PartiesHuffington Post
New spending bill allows wealthy donors to give more — lots more — to Raw Story

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