Another week has gone by, and today's weather has hopefully given us a good preview of the next few weeks to come leading up to summer. Thanks to the last minute deal by President Obama, the government averted a hot situation themselves.
More news has occurred in the Google situation. Earlier this week, Google has proposed a $700 Million buyout of ITA Software. After an eight month review, the Justice Department has agreed to this decision on the condition that Google will allow all of its' search engine rivals to look at all of it travel data, and also allow the government to review any complaints from other companies that Google is acting unfairly. As mentioned in my previous posts, Fairsearch.org has joined together in order to protest against this deal becoming done.
Despite the protests from Fairsearch, the deal has been agreed upon on Friday. Another provision has been officially added to the deal however. Google will also have to create a firewall on the data of its' clients and also has to allow government review at any request; one that does not even have to come from a different company or search engine. Many say that Google has only hurt themselves with this deal. Because of the deal, a larger review seems to be looming ahead for Google. Apparently after the deal has passed through, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department have began to contemplate the idea of an investigation on the accusations thrown towards Google. I'm sure that in the next couple of days we will know everything.
What to thank Senator Herb Kohl for? Well, if you have a pair of healthy lungs, then you can thank him for trying to keep them clean and healthy. Just recently Herb Kohl used his authority and popularity to "lobby" for the Clean Air Act to be passed. In a statement made by Steve Cochran, the Environmental Defense Agency Vice President, he praised Kohl for fighting to "make sure that every American will have clean air to breathe." Since then, many twitter posts have been put up for citizens to call or write to Herb Kohl for thanking him.
How is this really important to the state of Wisconsin? It's huge. The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) has also been lobbying for the Clean Air Act to be passed. In a presentation made to Congress, the NASN presented some shocking numbers regarding chilren's health in the recent years. For more of the numbers and the arguments you can go here.
Here's somethin' to leave ya with before the weekend's over... If you're one of those people thinking "okay, what's the big deal, it's a clean air act that probably won't change anything anyways." Now go up and say that in front of the 123,000 kids in Wisconsin that have asthma. Those same kids, have needed more than 12,000 emergency rooms when they went through a serious asthma attack.
That's kind of a big deal don't you think?
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