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Coal Lobbying Group Airs New Ad Mocking Occupy Wall Street
The coal lobby just kicked off a $40 million campaign to manipulate the election cycle. In 2008, the industry planted questions in town hall events to coerce candidates like John McCain, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama to support coal-friendly policies. This year, the effort seems quite similar — but the first ad of
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VICTORY: Tea Party-Occupy-Labor Coalition Kills Georgia’s Corporate Assault On The First Amendment
Republic Report was one of the first outlets to tell you about a dangerous bill in Georgia being pushed by a Waffle House executive and the Georgia Chamber of Commerce that would’ve outlawed picketing outside of private residences — a law that would’ve put the Founding Fathers themselves in jail. After we filed our report,
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Time For Businesses Behind ‘Shoot First’ Law To Take Responsibility, Quit ALEC – Republic Report Joins Coalition Effort Challenging Corporations
The story of Trayvon Martin is, first and foremost, a tragedy for his family, and our hearts go out to them. It’s also about things that need to change, including how powerful interests use their superior resources to distort the processes of government — in this case a well-funded private group, fueled by donations
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U Idaho – U Phoenix Deal is Finally Dead
It’s a busy week for me, but I want to acknowledge, since we have focused on it here for more than two years, that the absurd deal for the University of Idaho to purchase the predatory for-profit University of Phoenix is finally dead. That’s good news. A wide range of Idahoans stood up against a
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Non-Profit Keiser University Holds Partisan Event in Run-Up to Election
The LinkedIn page, and X profile, of Florida’s Keiser University reported last month that on September 13 the school “hosted a public policy forum in West Palm Beach featuring discussions on safety and the economy.” But the Facebook page of Florida state Representative and state Senate candidate Randy Fine, a Republican who participated in the
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Department of Education Opens Trove of Reports on College Abuses
Last week, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) took some long-overdue steps toward sharing with the public critical information about its dealings with troubled colleges. One new web page provides details on the Department’s Program Participation Agreements with schools, the contracts that set out the terms for eligibility for federal
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Appeals Court Affirms $21M Penalty for Scams by Ashford U (aka UAGC)
The California Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld $21 million in penalties against for-profit Ashford University, after a state judge found in 2022, following a trial, that the school had systematically deceived prospective students about matters including the costs of attendance, the value of Ashford degrees, and the transferability of credits. The appeals court affirmed
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A For-Profit Nursing College Is Trying To Take Root In Wisconsin. Here’s Why That’s Alarming.
More than a decade ago, a for-profit college chain opened an outpost in Milwaukee: Everest College, owned by Corinthian Colleges. Soon after, Corinthian became one of the most well-known and devastating examples of a for-profit college collapse — it shut down in 2015 mired in legal and regulatory challenges, overnight leaving about 16,000 students without
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