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Politics

Airlines seek to hide taxes and fees in airfare prices

Bob Collins May 8, 2014, 12:35 PM May 8, 2014

Congress is about to be tested on how much sway the airline industry holds over consumers on Capitol Hill.

So far, the industry is winning.
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Crime and Justice · Politics

Supreme Court question: What is corruption?

Bob Collins April 2, 2014, 2:11 PM Apr 2, 2014

Today’s Supreme Court decision that appears to open the floodgates of campaign contributions is rooted in this question: What is corruption? The word appears 124 times in today’s opinon.

In its ruling today, the Court said the limits are arbitrary because they set a point at which a campaign contribution is corruption. Read more →