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paytonromero

Criminalize Recording Police - 0 views

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    On this website there is talk of a law that prohibits citizens of recording police work. With all the spot lights faced upon police brutality lately this is a hot topic.
anonymous

Fast Food Consumers - 0 views

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    New York City is attempting to address the record breaking obesity rates in adults and children by posting contained calories for each item and offering healthier meal options. Sixty percent of adults are contributing to these record breaking results. Along with the rest of the nation, New York Cities top killer wiping out the population named Obesity, with accomplices including cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. To decrease chances of these illnesses, increase consumption of fruits and vegetables, low in fat that meet your personal DRI (daily recommendation intake).
joseph augusta

No Compromise: NRA Takes On United Nations - 0 views

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    The cornerstone of freedom is the 2nd amendment right. Are you about to loose it?
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    This site reports news and information to inform individuals of any threats to their Second Amendment right. It is sponsored by the NRA and there are links of articles and stories anti-gun control.
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    In 2009, at the behest of the Obama administration, the United States joined 152 other countries in endorsing a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Resolution. The resolution establishes an international conference to be held next year, at which leaders from countries around the world-many of which have deplorable human rights records-will draw up an international treaty designed to severely restrict or even outright ban your right to sell, purchase, carry or own a firearm. Just two years ago, NRA fought a push to consider a 1997 Organization of American States gun control treaty in the Senate.
mrick30

Record number of wrongful convictions overturned in 2013 - CBS News - 0 views

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    This article is about the growing number of wrongful convictions being overturned. This article talks about some things states are doing to help stop wrongful convictions.
con2161029

The Freedom of Information Act - 0 views

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    The freedom of information act enables by any person to obtain information from the federal agency records exept if its listed under the exemptions. There are nine exemptions contained in the law.
smurphy6600

Health Net lawsuit reveals the financial engine of drug rehab industry - 0 views

  • The only "Obamacare" health insurer in metro Phoenix and Pima County is ensnared in a legal dispute with several addiction treatment centers over the cost of care amid an Arizona opioid epidemic that is taking an average of two lives each day. 
  • Maricopa County Superior Court lawsuit
  • widespread fraud among Arizona and California drug rehab centers in 2015 and 2016, when it alleges"teams of brokers" recruited out-of-state clients to fraudulently obtain insurance policies and to seek treatment in Arizona.
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  •  residential “sober homes”
  • headaches for local government officials as they try to determine how to manage the unregulated industry.
  • Prescott, which once claimed more than 100 sober homes, has adopted regulations to provide more oversight of them.
  • Federal and state prosecutors have aggressively pursued cases in Florida and California in connection with fraudulent activities such as patient brokering.
  • There have been no criminal cases filed in Arizona, however. 
  • Six of the rehab facilities that accuse Health Net of improperly withholding payments are in Prescott: Chapter 5 Counseling, Prescott House, Compass Recovery Center, Clean Adventures of Sober Living, Decision Point Center and Carleton Recovery Centers.
  • Three others, T R U Recovery Solutions, North Ridge Counseling and Desert Cove Recovery, list Scottsdale addresses. 
  • The rehab facilities allege that Health Net improperly withheld payments to virtually every rehab center in Arizona and southern California beginning in January 2016. Health Net halted the payments as part of an investigative audit that demanded each center provide detailed records such as proof of patients' residency and assurances that patients did not receive incentives to sign up for rehab. 
  • Health Net said in court documents that claims filed by rehab centers in Arizona soared because of widespread fraud
  • Health Net's PPO plans paid $2.4 million to all Arizona rehab centers in 2014. Those payments soared to $47.4 million in 2015
  • Those plans paid more for rehab care that year than all other types of care in Arizona, including typically expensive medical care such as cancer, heart disease and child births, according to the insurer’s counterclaim.
  • Here’s how the fraud worked, the insurer said in its counterclaim:Brokers would scout out people in 12-step programs, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, homeless shelters and jails, then refer these clients to the “highest-bidding clinic.”Clinics that were not part of the insurer’s network paid clients’ insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs such as deductibles and co-payments.The result was that people secured Health Net coverage “arranged and bought for them by financially-interested providers for one purpose only: to obtain coverage for the limited time needed to rack up millions of dollars in substance abuse treatment.” Some clinics misrepresented the home addresses of patients, many of whom lived out of state. 
  • “a sophisticated fraud involving the fraudulent enrollment of non-Arizona residents,” who signed up for Arizona insurance policies. 
  • misrepresenting their home address
  • Clean Adventures staff member told him to list the rehab facility's address on his insurance application.
  • put him in contact with an insurance agent who suggested using Clean Adventures' address on his insurance application
  • The insurer named 10 other examples of people who lived in California, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee and Wisconsin but represented that they lived in Prescott or Scottsdale.
  • The insurer also said the rehab centers engaged in fraudulent billing, charging for services that were not medically necessary or in amounts that exceeded what the plan allowed.
  • A 2008 law called the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Act requires insurance plans to provide equitable coverage for substance abuse and addiction treatment. The Affordable Care Act also requires health insurance plans cover essential health benefits, including behavioral health services, and it forbids insurers from denying coverage to individuals based on existing medical conditions. 
  • The unintended consequence was (some) addiction treatments centers began taking advantage of that and over-billing," said Angie Geren, executive director of Addiction Haven, a grassroots and advocacy organization focusing on addiction issues. 
  • House Bill 2333
  • curb the practice of paying referral fees to brokers who steer patients to rehab centers.
  • bill never made it out of committee.
  • Florida
  • "The scam starts with deceptive advertising at the beginning," Aronberg said. "You are lured down to sunny Florida with a free plane ticket, which is illegal. You are given illegal benefits to keep you there."
  • patients often find themselves booted from treatment when their insurance benefits run out.
  • incentive for people to relapse so they can obtain another round of coverage.
  • Sober Home Task Force targeting the practice of buying and selling patients battling addiction
  • Johnson said rehab centers that provide legitimate services are being harmed as insurance companies scrutinize payments and bad actors poach patients away. 
  • ken.alltucker@arizonarepublic.com
smurphy6600

First Water Supply Cuts to Hit Arizona Farmers - 2 views

  • Climate change, drought and high demand are expected to force the first-ever mandatory cuts to a water supply
  • the Colorado River
  • Arizona farmers hard.
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  • local economy will take a hit.
  • Pinal County, Arizona’s top producer of cotton, barley and livestock
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      This is the food shortage that our water supply shortage will lead to
  • They knew this was coming
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      A way to prevent food scarcity as much as possible while water shortage becomes a real time issue
  • rely on groundwater that’s already overpumped.
  • The nation’s largest reservoir already has hit the level that triggers mandatory shortages — 1,075 feet (328 meters) above sea level.
  • most deeply felt in Arizona
  • exchange for U.S. funding
  • canal
  • reservoirs dipped to historic lows across the West. Scientists blame climate change for the warmer, more arid conditions over the past 30 years.
  • melted snow from the Rocky Mountains
  • drinking water, nourishment for crops and habitat for plants and animals
  • storing water underground and in Lake Mead and through conservation.
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      preparing for the shortage ahead of time
  • recycled water
  • desalinating water from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico.
  • all of those things need to be done.”
  • some of the water that farmers will lose will be replaced by other sources next year.
  • e groundwater infrastructure.
  • drip irrigation that makes water use more efficient and crops more productive,
  • guayule, a drought-resistant shrub that could be used in the production of rubber.
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    The article reviews recent news from Arizona government limiting water supply allotted to farmers for 2022 due to the record breaking low of the Colorado river and the status of the drought. It reviews climate changes effects on our western water supply from the Colorado River and Arizona's share of its percentage being cut by an agreement from the early 1900s. The water supply will force farmers into seeking more resourceful ways of farming from drought proof crop to reducing their growing area and crop types but ultimately demands a change in how the western states and Arizona source their water supply as it effects our food supply for the future.
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    It is truly devastating how the drought is affecting the food supply and our farmers in Arizona, there is a need for better water management, and we need a lot more water in Arizona to survive in the intense heat.
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    I can't imagine how a farmer feels. The colorado river needs a dramatic change.
Tyler Kendall

Reporter targeted by FBI, accused of being a spy - 0 views

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    James Rosen, a fox news reporter got his hand on classified information about a source in North Korea. Government is now taking his and Fox News' phone records and such.
David Munnelly

Journal News Hires Armed Guards After Outcry Over Map of Gun Permit Holders - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    A New York newspaper recently published the information of gun permit holders.  Now they have hired armed security to protect their staff.
rcbraaten

Privacy: A Failed Experiment? - 1 views

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    Is privacy real? Google records websites visited on computers to pop up ads, that's how they make their money. Privacy is seeming less like a right and more of a goal. With surveillance of the government are infringing more upon citizens privacy. Why should the government be able to view our emails when Hillary Clinton deletes all of hers and is backed by the FBI?
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    I completely agree. I feel that privacy is a mere illusion in our society. Just because their is no paper trail, does not mean that there is no digital fingerprint. The government has always been a double-standard in how they have the power to make the rules, and yet they break them. People like Hillary just have more connections and the means to get themselves out of trouble.
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    This was a very interesting article. It does give a lot of truths about how the goverment has gone behind our backs and gone through people's private information at times. It is not fair at all for the government to be doing something like this without reasonable suspicion and a court order.
amr2126336

Anti-abortion group releases new secretly recorded video - 1 views

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    he anti-abortion group that recently revealed two videos from a secret investigation into abortion clinics released a third on Thursday. The group, Live Action, previewed it first to CNN, providing what appears to be full footage and an edited version.
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    This article goes over the negative side of abortion and what goes into having one. In addition to that it goes over how abortion is done correctly in certain clinics.
rcbraaten

Frightening Incidents Begin in Target's Transgender-Friendly Bathrooms - 0 views

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    A 22-year-old New Hampshire man was arrested, tried, and charged with violation of privacy after he recorded underage girls in a Target bathroom. Transgender equality has been a rising problem in the United States, and Target's motion to allow gender neutral bathrooms may be causing more harm than good. Many feel this is allowing people to easily take advantage of the progress Target is trying to make, and more instances of men and underage girls are surfacing and are requiring attention, and whether Transgender friendly bathrooms are creating and unsafe environment.
dan2084143

Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration - 0 views

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    The imprisonment of human beings at record levels is both a moral failure and an economic one - especially at a time when more and more Americans are struggling to make ends meet and when state governments confront enormous fiscal crises. Having a system that relies on mass incarceration to continue in order to make profits goes against the purpose of the criminal justice system.
Gabrielle Foster

Do You Worry We Are Filming Too Much? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    This article brings up the question of whether the commonality of filming is affecting our privacy. As technology advances it becomes increasingly easier to film someone without them even noticing.
veronica evans

Verizon Forced to Give Up Call Information - 0 views

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    Top secret court order forced Verizon to give up call data. Court order says, Verizon has to give up all call details, or telephony metadata, created by Verizon for communication. Basically, this means who you are, where you are, who your talking to, and how long you talked.
cas2135500

Bankruptcy Could Change Your Career Choices - 0 views

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    Companies may not come out and say the real reason they didn't hire you is because of a bankruptcy on your record. This is because employers don't have to be honest when turning your employment with them down. However it is shown that in fact bankruptcy and bad credit are sometimes used to weed you out of a job.
anonymous

Foreign Investors Buying U.S. Real Estate - 0 views

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    This article discusses the extreme increase in foreign investors buying real estate in these United States. Apparently, most of these investors have been from China and Canada.
michaeplatt23

Bullying - 2 views

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    School bullying prevention tips. The website includes expanded information on cyber bullying, how to assess situations, and how to get involved. Unfortunately, bullying has evolved into a community involved issue and not just a parenting issue.
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    This is a topic that I feel strongly about. I always felt sick to my stomach seeing any type of bullying while I was growing up going to school. I believe that the consequences to students who bully, need to harsher than they are.
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    My wife is a kindergarten teacher and sees "bully" characteristics in her students at such a young age. It is an ongoing issue that I feel most schools disregard even though they have "anti-bullying" rules. It is a scary issue as it not only negatively affects students' academics and school attendance, but also their quality of life. There is also the issue of cyberbullying which allows the bullies to hide their identity and messages being sent via the Internet.
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    I like that this article gives almost a list of what to look for and how to intervene. My wife teaches fifth grade at a public school and every time I walk down the halls I see some form of bullying but am unsure what to do. I usually say something to the kids, but then always wonder if I am overstepping my role because I'm not a teacher or the other student's parent. Also, I ask myself "could I get in trouble if I had to intervene?".
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    Bullying has became a bigger issue than people realize it is, it is sad to see kids get hurt. I like how it gives a list and how to deal with the matter for the children.
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    There are always anti-bullying rules, but how effective are they when students feel they can't come forward? I think there should be more focus on teaching students how to treat each other and that they should intervene if they see someone being harrassed.
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    At the end of the day, bullying is going to keep going until there are more kids stopping it than surrounding the first whipping their phones out to record. Everyone knows deep down that being a bully isn't fun, but who is going to stop that bully? Who is going to make him feel like the dumb one for picking on someone younger than him? That is how you stop bullying.
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    This site has a ton of information on bullying and how to deal with it. Preventing bullying is a top thing in our country and this site gives some good information on every aspect.
ste2252736

A Mexican immigrant here illegally just became a citizen, thanks to his U.S. military s... - 0 views

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    This article talks about Torres, an illegal immigrant, who joined the military in hopes of a better future even though he knew it was a risk by doing so. He recently became a citizen by his case being one of a kind. He didn't have a criminal record compared to other military veterans who served and got convicted but were sent back to there country.
aacastillo1222

We Don't Deny Harvey, So Why Deny Climate Change? - The New York Times - 2 views

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    This article talks about how climate change is the reason for hurricane Harvey. Scientist predicted that this hurricane was going to happen. He also gives examples of climate change and the first steps to help it not to get worse.
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    It honestly baffles me that people do not believe in climate change and global warming. We have tons of SCIENTISTS who work day in and day out to collect this type of data and are clearly the experts yet people like Trump want to say it's a "Chinese Hoax".. it makes absolutely no sense!!
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    Climate change is an important issue that has an impact far outside the present. I thought the author made an interesting point at the beginning of his article, when he talked about how after 9-11 we found terror but when it comes to climate change people look the other way.
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    Hurricane Harvey is one of the many signs that climate change is a threat to our planet. The article states that "last year was the third year in a row to set a record for highest global average surface temperature " and since then other studies and reports have only further proven these dacts.
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