It's Time to Reregulate Business
Between toys that might kill our children, a food safety system that isn't working, airlines that might be flying unsafe airplanes, and our entire financial system, it's clear something isn't working.
Between toys that might kill our children, a food safety system that isn't working, airlines that might be flying unsafe airplanes, and our entire financial system, it's clear something isn't working.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
I'm sick of hearing from journalists. Where are the historians, political scientists, economists, sociologists, communication experts and objective political analysts?
Carl Pope | Posted 02.16.2008 | Home
If you didn't already fully grasp just how eager the reactionary right is to take risks with your life and that of your family, for the most absurd an...
CNN | Emily Sherman | Posted 12.21.2007 | Business
Angry Chinese officials are taking aim at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama over his statement that he would "stop the import of all toys...
Los Angeles Times | Alex Pham | Posted 11.30.2007 | Business
Kathleen Buczko, a mother of three, is the toy industry's Grinch this year. She plans to cut her spending on toys by 25%. To the video game industry,...
CBS Early Show | Posted 11.20.2007 | Business
Hannah Storm speaks with Julie Vallese from the Consumer Product Safety Commission about which products are actually safe in the midst of toy recalls ...
AP | Posted 11.20.2007 | Business
California Attorney General Jerry Brown on Monday sued 20 companies, including Mattel Inc. and Toys "R" Us, claiming they sold toys containing "unlawf...
Joan Blades | Posted 11.01.2007 | Living
"You've got to be kidding me!" was the first thing we thought after hearing on the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission doesn't support legislation to greatly increase resources for her agency to stop toxic products from reaching children.
Al Meyerhoff | Posted 10.26.2007 | Living
Our regulatory "safety net" is broken, tacked together with overlapping laws and conflicting standards.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics
Within 24 hours this week, two different consumer watchdog groups gave the American public completely contradictory information about home lead test kits.
The New York Times | ERIC LIPTON | Posted 09.18.2007 | Business
Major American retailers, including Target, Limited Too and Dollar General, have found more lead-contaminated children's products in their inventories...
AP | Anne D'Innocenzio | Posted 09.14.2007 | Business
Someone is going to have to pay all the extra costs of making toys safer. For now, toy makers and retailers are sharing the burden, but that's only e...
New York Times | Louise Story | Posted 09.10.2007 | Business
Reacting to three separate recalls of Mattel toys found to contain unsafe levels of lead paint, The Walt Disney Company said it would begin its own te...
Trevor Butterworth | Posted 09.06.2007 | Living
Exterminating California's population of rubber ducks makes for good political propaganda, but it is nothing more than a Grinch-like solution to an illusory threat.
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Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business