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Scott PowersJuly 20, 2017

A watchdog group called the Checks & Balances Project is charging that the leading hotel industry association may be paying Florida International University to produce research for the industry’s lobbying against Airbnb and other home-sharing marketing companies. “The hotel industry’s hotel industry’s lobbying arm, the American Hotel & Lobbying Association, has an aggressive pay-to-play academic […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 25, 2015

Uh oh. He did it again. Keith Olbermann is on paid suspension for the rest of this week, after a few angry tweets to a Penn State supporter got him in hot water with his ESPN bosses. While the tweeter sent Olbermann a link about the university’s $13 million fundraising for pediatric cancer research, Keith […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 20, 2014

The departure of Florida State University President Eric Barron to join the Penn State University system was met with much surprise, as was the leaving of former State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan, also recently migrating to Pennsylvania, and before him the move of John Cavanaugh from the University of West Florida to this same […]

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Watchdog group claims hotel industry, FIU, teaming for anti-Airbnb research

Mitch Perry Report for 2.25.15 — Keith Olbermann and the golden age of MSNBC

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