Archive for February, 2012
Lobbyists Run The Ball On New Concussion Laws
As a star linebacker on his middle school football team, Zackery Lystedt made a lot of big plays and took some heavy hits. During a game in 2006, the Washington State youth was sidelined with a concussion. He should have been kept off the field. Instead Zackery was sent back into the game, only to [...]
Global Image-Making On K Street
1994. The small central African nation of Rwanda implodes, unleashing a genocide that will claim an estimated 800,000 lives. Now, almost twenty years after the nation was plunged into chaos and bloodshed, Rwanda is attempting to “re-brand” its battered image. To facilitate this overhaul the Rwandan government contracted with Racepoint Group, a Boston-based P.R. operation. [...]
Debate Intensifies on Holocaust Railway Justice Legislation
On Capitol Hill the struggle to come to terms with the legacy of Nazism continues as politicians and lobbyists debate the Holocaust Railway Justice Act. The Act, which has broad bi-partisan support, would allow U.S. survivors of the Holocaust to press reparation claims in American courtrooms against the French railway giant SNCF. SNCF has responded [...]
