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12 Noon: The other side of Bike Week… Rick Schmitt of FairWarning.org* investigates Despite Death Toll, Motorcycle Groups Strive to Muzzle U.S. Regulators While the highway death toll is going down, motorcycle fatalities have increased to 4,500 per year, or about one in seven traffic deaths. Yet motorcycle groups continue fighting to preserve what is essentially a gag order on regulators to keep them from promoting or enforcing safety requirements. “This is… an interesting and dangerous road they are going down,” as one safety advocate put it. *FairWarning-an online, nonprofit publication that seeks to provide robust, public interest journalism on issues of health, safety and corporate conduct. 12:30pm: NEC political science professor Wayne Lesperance discusses: Email censorship…Speaker O’Brien style As the rich get richer Wall Street dumps cash on Romney…(from Politico: Romney outraises Obama with financial sector donors $37.1 million to $4.8 million) Growing inequality’s effect on the 2012 election
