links for 2011-04-14

• Government wants airlines to repay baggage check fee if they lose your luggage
  Transportation Department also wants airlines to pay passengers more when they're bumped off their flight.
• Syracuse teachers protest budget
  Syracuse teachers are making sure their voices are heard. Hundreds of teachers and supporters gathered outside the district offices on Harrison Street to hold a protest against the current budget and the cuts its proposing.
• East Syracuse Minoa students write their stresses on plates they made and get to smash them
  The Pine Grove Middle School students collected the pieces to later make a mosaic artwork. It was part of a reading project of the book "Notes from the Dog," by Gary Paulsen
• A Report Card on New York’s Civic Literacy | Brennan Center for Justice
  Few Americans have the requisite knowledge to engage in a democratic policy discussion. Few know anything about the three branches of government, their functions, or how an idea becomes a law. And even fewer would know how to effect the changes recommended by the President.
• Cuomo gets wage freeze in first NY labor contract
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday settled the first major labor contract of the year with rare concessions including a pay freeze, elimination of automatic "step" increases and more
• Both parties helped run up the United States' $14 trillion debt
  Main culprits in expanding the national debt are war spending and the 2007-2009 recession. Spending far outpaced revenues in both the Bush and Obama administrations.
• Pro-fracking signs graffitied with swastika, racial epithet
  A pro-gas drilling sign in Chenango County is defaced with a swastika and a racial epithet. It happened over the weekend in the town of South New Berlin.
• Outdoors: Coyotes are protected and will remain so | The Ithaca Journal | theithacajournal.com
  Many of you have been wondering aloud — quite loudly, in fact — why the state doesn't crack down on the coyote population. Why not a bounty program?

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