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Policies Are Evil

Liz Ryan | Posted 04.13.2013 | Business
Read More: Attorney, Employment Law, Bureaucracy, Corporate Inanity, Liz Ryan, Corporate, Hidebound, Depressing, Policy, Quality, Advice, Organization, Tedious, Silly, Ridiculous Policies, Binder Boy, Hr, Red Tape, Waste of Time, Expert Witness, Business News
Liz Ryan

If we care about quality, and energy, and trust, we'll talk about situations that arise, and handle them in context, the way people have done in every society since the dawn of time.

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'I Like My Skin Thin, Thank You'

Lisa Guest | Posted 07.25.2012 | Women
Read More: Research, Medical Centers, Oncology, Waiting Rooms, Choice, Stress, Emotional Processing, Emotions, Self Esteem, Traditions, Urgent Care, Chemotherapy, Disease, Blood Tests, Analysis, Health Insurance, Red Tape, Doctors, Cancer, Second Opinions, Anxiety, Pixar, Power Port Flushes, Women News
Lisa Guest

I've been told I over-analyze things too much. I've been told I'm too sensitive about little things. I've been told I should grow a thicker skin. I like my skin thin.

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Courage in the Adoption Waiting Game

Craig Juntunen | Posted 07.01.2012 | Impact
Read More: Guatemala, International Adoption, Vietnam, Orphans, Adoption, Red Tape, Adoption Policy, Adoption Politics, Impact News
Craig Juntunen

Today, courage and strength have replaced love and desire as the most important characteristics for people who take on the international adoption process. The expected 18- to 24-month adoption process has turned into a maddening and unnecessary four or five year ordeal.

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Matt Sledge

Obama PledgesTo 'Clear Away The Red Tape' For Construction Projects

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 01.26.2012 | Politics
Read More: Obama State of the Union 2012, Obamas State of the Union, Obama Address, President Obama, State of the Union Speech, Sotu 2012, Obama, State of the Union Address, State of the Union Address 2012, Barack Obama, Green Mountain Wind Project, Obama Executive Order, Infrastructure, Video, Obamas State of the Union 2012, Obama Speech, President Obama Speech, Sotu, State of the Union Speech 2012, Red Tape, Obama State of the Union, President Obama Address, Deerfield Wind Project, Iberdrola Renewables, Politics News

President Barack Obama promised in his 2012 State of the Union address on Tuesday night to "sign an executive order clearing away the red tape that sl...

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The 10 Colleges With The Worst Bureaucracies

Posted 01.31.2012 | College
Read More: College Bureaucracy, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, Long Lines and Red Tape, Princeton Review, Government Bureaucracy, College News

Hating waiting forever to get your transcript? Don't want to deal with a nightmare when you switch majors? It may be time to look critically at scho...

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Kitchen Found 'Not Liable' For City Fines, But Remain Incensed

Posted 10.29.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Rahm Emanuel, Logan Square Chicago, Small Business Red Tape, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, Health Inspections, Chicago Business, Logan Square, Zina Murray, Chicago Bureaucracy, Logan Square Kitchen, Chicago News

When Logan Square Kitchen owner Zina Murray announced last week that she was heading to court to challenge three violations she described as "groundle...

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Shared Kitchen 'Fed Up' After 19 City Health Inspections

Posted 10.24.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Logan Square Chicago, Small Business Red Tape, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, Health Inspections, Logan Square, Chicago Business, Chicago Bureaucracy, Zina Murray, Logan Square Kitchen, Chicago News

The Logan Square Kitchen, a collective kitchen space based on Chicago's near Northwest Side is no stranger to red tape, but after nearly 20 inspection...

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Two Years Later, City Allows Chicago Hot Dog Stand To Hang Their Sign

Posted 10.12.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Chicago City Council, Chicago Hot Dogs, Hot Dogs, Chicago Red Tape, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, Felony Franks Sign, Bob Fioretti, Felony Franks Chicago, Felony Franks, Chicago Bureaucracy, Chicago News

The owner of Felony Franks, a prison-themed West Side hot dog stand, on Thursday installed a sign advertising his business following a two-year legal ...

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City Rolls Out Red Tape For Bike-Powered Pub Crawl

Posted 09.20.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Pedalpub Chicago, Pub Tours, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, Pedalpub, Bar Crawls, Chicago Around Town, Chicago Bureaucracy, Chicago News

A popular Minnesota-based bike-powered pub crawl company looking to expand into the Chicago market has run into more than its fair share of difficulti...

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Chicago Scene Boat Party Leaves City For Hammond, Ind., After Permit Issues

Posted 08.31.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Sunburn, Chicago Parties, Lousy Bureaucrats, Chicago Scene Boat Party, Chicago Beaches, Party Boats, Summer Fun, Red Tape, Chicago Around Town, Ted Widen, Drinking, Chicago Nightlife, Chicago News

The Chicago Scene Boat Party, a shindig "consistently voted the wettest and wildest event of the summer" according to its organizers, had better hope ...

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U.S. Firms Growing Impatient With Chinese Bureaucracy, Survey Says

Reuters | Koh Gui Qing | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Market, World Trade Organization, Indigenous Innovation, Companies, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, U.S. Firms, Chinese Commerce Ministry, Wto, China, American Chamber of Commerce, Amcham, Google, Business News

By Koh Gui Qing BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. firms are increasingly vexed over growing Chinese red tape that prevents them from expanding quickly in Ch...

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Red Tape: A Solar Play in One Long, Expensive Act

Peter Hanlon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Sunrun, Installer, Red Tape, Clean Energy, Solar, Green Business, Permitting, Satire, Renewable, Green News
Peter Hanlon

Customers who want to install small-scale, distributed generation like solar panels and wind turbines are confronted with a maze of complex, expensive and lengthy local permitting requirements.

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Park Service Releases 2,400 Pages Of Dog Walking Rules

rollcall.com | January 26, 2011 | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Government, Pets, Rules, Parks, Red Tape, Dogs, Bureauacracy, Parks Service, Politics News

On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama promised to streamline government, reorganize agencies and eliminate unnecessary rules to get bureaucracy out...

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Captive Flower

H. Candace Gorman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Detainees, Feelings, Law, Red-Tape, Emotions, Lawyers, Emotion, College, Nature, University of Wisconsin, Bureaucracy, Flowers, Red Tape, Bullshit, Healthy Living News
H. Candace Gorman

My client, Mr. Al-Ghizzawi, told me during one of our first visits about a flower that was outside his cage at Guantanamo, just sticking out of the desert terrain, by itself.

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Italy: No Country For Young Men

Alessandro Fusacchia and Fabio Oliva | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Generational Divide, Italy, Italian Politics, Obama, Youth Empowerment, Rena, Meritocracy, Infrastructure, World, Public Transportation, Red Tape, Europe, Barack Obama, Transportation, World News
Alessandro Fusacchia and Fabio Oliva

Change, unfortunately, is hard to come by in Italy, a country bogged down by red-tape, political scandals and lack of innovation.

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