Tuesday’s Links Worth Clicking

• If an island state vanishes with climate change, is it still a nation? | syracuse.com
  What happens if the 61,000 Marshallese must abandon their low-lying atolls? Would they still be a nation?
• Officials call for changes to New York state’s election laws
  A group of elected officials and voting advocates said New York is among the least voter-friendly states in the nation and called for reforms like early voting, same-day registration and allowing New Yorkers to fill out ballots.
• NY agency sued over GPS tracker on worker’s car
  The New York Civil Liberties Union has sued the state on behalf of a labor department worker who was fired after investigators used a GPS device to track his car and show he falsified his time sheets.
• Coast Guard starts Great Lakes ice breaking effort
  The U.S. Coast Guard says it has started ice-breaking operations in the western Great Lakes area in response to colder temperatures..
• World’s hottest pepper is ‘hot enough to strip paint’
  Fiery food mavens seeking to one-up each other now have to gear up for a whole new test of culinary bravado: the world’s hottest chili pepper.
• NY Medicaid patients sold prescriptions to drug dealers, investigation finds
  Public funds pay for narcotics such as OxyContin, which are then sold to drug dealers for cash.
• Advocates call for more NY parks funding
  Advocacy groups are calling for a new source of revenue to revitalize New York’s parks and historic sites
• Lame duck’s golden eggs
  Even as he urged lawmakers to help him cut spending, Gov. David Paterson last week quietly authorized $16.7 million in grants from a fund he controls — to pay for chess tournaments in New York City, foreign trade offices in Chile and Australia, and to promote a New Jersey Super Bowl in four years with the National Football League.

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