ClearHealthCosts

ClearHealthCosts: “We’re a journalism company from New York City bringing transparency to the health care marketplace by telling people what stuff costs. People should be able to know what things cost in health care. If you knew that your MRI could cost $350 or $6,200, maybe you’d choose a different provider. Maybe you’d wonder if …

Subjects: Health Care, Medicine

LLRX March 2026 Issue – Articles and Columns

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 8 – This article by Sabrina I. Pacifici is the eighth in a series with a focus on the continuing onslaught on science, healthcare and public health, and the rule of law. AI in Discovery: Some Tools Are …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Education, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship

Washington Post [no paywall] – Alexander Porter Morse, a Confederate officer during the Civil War and a Louisiana attorney, argued for legalized segregation in the landmark 1896 Supreme Court case that established the “separate but equal” doctrine and buttressed Jim Crow laws. He is again playing a key role in a monumental case to be …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

61% of American households can’t afford to buy a home in their own neighborhood

Reddit – Data is Beautiful – Global-Thought-1049 Sources: Zillow Home Value Index (typical home tier, 35th–65th percentile), Census ACS 5-year income distributions (16 brackets per ZIP), county property tax rates (Census ACS), state homeowners insurance averages (MoneyGeek). Methodology: For each of 26,000 ZIP codes, I used the full Census income distribution, not a single median …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Housing

The history of school buses

The Atopian: One of the loudest vehicles in America, visually, is the humble school bus. These mighty metal machines are tasked with carting children around safely. Thus, so much of the design of the school bus, from its eye-searing yellow color to the padded seats, serves an important safety role. One of the coolest style …

Subjects: Education, Transportation

Facial Recognition Is Spreading Everywhere

IEEE Spectrum – “Facial recognition technology (FRT) dates back 60 years. Just over a decade ago, deep-learning methods tipped the technology into more and menacing—territory. Now, retailers, your neighbors, and law enforcement are all storing your face and building up a fragmentary photo album of your life. Yet the story those photos can tell inevitably …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Records, Legal Research, Privacy

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

The Guardian – “The US has caused an eye-watering $10tn in global damages to the world over the past three decades through its vast planet-heating emissions, with a quarter of this economic pain inflicted upon itself, new research has found. By being the largest carbon emitter in history, the US has caused greater harm to …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents

NOASSIS.noaa.gov Website to Be Sunset

The noaasis.noaa.gov website will be discontinued, effective as of June 23rd, 2026. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Satellite Information System (NOAASIS) website is a central location for information about NOAA’s geostationary and polar-orbiting environmental satellites. Information is provided by various contributors within the NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and …

Subjects: E-Records, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents

U.S. Postal Service Announces Transportation-Related, Time-Limited Price Change

The U.S. Postal Service filed notice today with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) regarding a time-limited price change to better align its costs of transportation with the market. This temporary price adjustment will provide needed flexibility for the Postal Service by helping to ensure that the actual costs of doing business are covered, as required …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents

America Is Now a Rogue Superpower

The Atlantic Gift Article: “Whenever and however America’s war with Iran ends, it has both exposed and exacerbated the dangers of our new, fractured, multipolar reality—driving deeper wedges between the United States and former friends and allies; strengthening the hands of the expansionist great powers, Russia and China; accelerating global political and economic chaos; and …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Energy, Financial System

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 8

Via LLRX – The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 8 – This article by Sabrina I. Pacifici is the eighth in a series wiith a focus on the continuing onslaught on science, healthcare and public health, and the rule of law. Since the 1990s, the public …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, Economy, Education, Freedom of Information, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine