The Massachusetts Trial Court is eliminating the position of "court reporter," which refers to stenographers who produce a verbatim transcript of court proceedings, in favor of a recording system called For The Record.
The 37 court reporter positions in Massachusetts in 2017 will be eliminated June 30, 2018 and replaced by 14 "monitors," who are supposed to make the sure the recording system is working properly and tend to other clerical tasks in the courts, according to MassLive.com.
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.
