Spending on public relations and communications is soaring at colleges and universities in the United States, leading to aggressive pushing of questionable story lines, homogenization of comments, and limitations on access to information.
At the University of New Hampshire, the public relations office cooked up a flimsy association between a retired librarian who left $4 million to the university and college football to justify using $1 million of the bequeathal on a scoreboard.
An "order" before the Maine House of Representatives would ask the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to rule on whether Indian tribes can open casinos without state approval, according to the Bangor Daily News.
