March 2020

Man up!

Published on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 4:52pm

Editor:

When issues keep popping up, it’s usually because they never got properly dealt with the first time. Ironically, it’s not always for lack of solutions. The way to fix that is solve the problem intelligently, then clean up your mess of not solving it rightly in the first place. 

A simple matter of fairness

Published on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 4:51pm

The NCAA has long engaged in a form of indentured servitude: Student athletes’ talent feeds the massive TV advertising and merchandising profit machine that is the NCAA. But if anyone points out that these fortunes are being made on the backs of kids who are paid, literally, nothing beyond their scholarships — and, worse, aren’t even allowed to profit independently from their own names or likenesses — it’s presented as some kind of wholesome learning experience.

Biden, Bernie’s Super Tuesday brawl to shape race

Published on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 4:49pm
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Millions of voters from Maine to California headed to the polls on Super Tuesday, the delegate-rich prize in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination that’s shaping up as a contest between two starkly different visions for the party’s future as it hurtles toward a November rematch with President Donald Trump.

What to watch as 14 states vote on Super Tuesday

Published on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 4:48pm
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Democratic presidential candidates are racing toward the biggest day on the primary calendar, when 14 states vote on Super Tuesday. It’s the day when the primary moves from retail to wholesale. Instead of one state voting at a time, candidates have to focus on contests in every region of the country with all types of voters. 

While Super Tuesday won’t necessarily determine who wins the nomination, it has historically been difficult for a candidate who performs poorly on the day to recover. Here’s a look at Tuesday’s contests:

 

Public Enemy kicks out Flavor Flav after campaign dispute

Published on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 4:47pm

NEW YORK (AP) — Public Enemy has abruptly fired founding member Flavor Flav following a public spat over a decision by members of the rap pioneers to perform at a Bernie Sanders campaign event. 

Public Enemy “will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,” the band said in a brief statement Sunday. “We thank him for his years of service and wish him well.”

High Court debates presidential power on ‘Super Tuesday’

Published on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 4:47pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with whether to make it easier for the president to fire the head of the agency that enforces federal consumer financial laws, a decision that could ultimately impact a vast range of agencies.

The high court was hearing arguments in a case involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency Congress created in response to the 2008 financial crisis. 

Medication fog can mimic or worsen dementia in the elderly

Published on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 4:46pm
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Claire Dinneen’s daughters thought that worsening dementia was causing her growing confusion, but her doctor suspected something else.

Dr. Pei Chen asked them to round up medicines in the 89-year-old woman’s home and they returned with a huge haul. There were 28 drugs ordered by various doctors for various ailments, plus over-the-counter medicines. Chen spent a year sorting out which ones were truly needed and trimmed a dozen. 

Chris Matthews retires from MSNBC, cites comments to women

Published on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 4:45pm
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NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime MSNBC host Chris Matthews abruptly retired from his “Hardball” show on Monday, apologizing for making inappropriate comments about women and following a brutal week where he also took heat from supporters of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

His exit came after a weekend of discussions with his bosses, three days after GQ ran a column by a freelance journalist about her “own sexist run-in” with Matthews in the makeup room before appearing on his show.

Nation Shorts

Published on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 4:44pm
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Publisher pushes back release date for John Bolton’s book

NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of John Bolton’s highly anticipated memoir has pushed back the release date from March 17 to mid-May. 

Simon & Schuster cited the ongoing government security review of the former national security adviser’s “The Room Where It Happened.” 

The new date is May 12, the publisher said in a news release.

“The new date reflects the fact that the government review of the work is ongoing,” Simon & Schuster said.

Caddisfly: a weaver of sediment

Published on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 4:40pm
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BOZEMAN — Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Environmental Biology, a pair of Montana State University researchers are setting out to prove caddisflies are more than fish food.

“They play other really important roles, like processing nutrients, influencing streambed flow regimes and providing habitat for other things living in the streambed, like microbes or other invertebrates,” said Lindsey Albertson, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology in the College of Letters and Science at MSU.