*Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds.*

*Thinktank report says ‘resounding evidence’ shows companies continue to keep prices high even as their inflationary costs drop.*

*How an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news broadcasting.*

A school that banned snoop-phones on campus found that this made life and education much better. Most of the students agree.

Alas, they are still being tracked, and perhaps listened to, by the non-"smart" portable phones that they carry. These phones are likewise running nonfree software that the user can't change _but others can_.

Still, this is a big step forward. If you can take that big step, you can probably take the smaller step that remains.

A study has found that children learn to read better when they read on paper.

Employees at Spirit AeroSystems, a subcontractor that Boeing spun off, accused the company of disregarding high levels of defects.

This attitude is common in US businesses, and it makes life painful. We need to change the system that makes it profitable to run businesses with this attitude.

Structural reasons why Boeing is doing badly in the safety field: it's owned by banks and asset managers, its outsourcing is out of control, and the US doesn't have laws to ensure workers' safety concerns are heeded.