Are America’s Students Lazy?

“I know this author will be criticized for this article, but based on my decades of college teaching experience she is exactly right,” wrote one. “What she leaves out is that we are dealing with a generation of students that have been left behind by No Child Left Behind, supervised by ‘Helicopter Parents.’ Students now feel entitled to high grades despite little work and want their hands held on every assignment, while they are unable to think for themselves.”

TV Producers Balk At New NY Permit Shooting Fee

“In view of the current economic downturn, entertainment industry representatives say they are not opposed to a charge for the use of municipal buildings. But they question how the city arrived at the $3,200 figure and say that and other aspects of the new fee have unnecessarily complicated a heretofore cordial relationship that, in their estimate, generates about $5 billion a year for the local economy.”