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What We've Found: Disgruntled theatergoers, illegal file-sharing, net neutrality, offshore-accounts amnesty, impending dementia and a budget shortfall in Phila. schools
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
What We've Found: Disgruntled theatergoers, illegal file-sharing, net neutrality, offshore-accounts amnesty, impending dementia and a budget shortfall in Phila. schools
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
Described by the president of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance as "the fight for our lives," patrons of the arts protested a 6 percent sales tax on tickets to concerts, live theater, performing arts, zoos and museums, and assured Gov. Rendell that he'd hear from them in fax-machine-clogging numbers.
Musicians were warring over whether or not to crack down on illegal file-sharers in the wake of news that forty billion music files, or 95 percent of all digital music, was downloaded illegally in 2008.
The head of the Federal Communications Commission endorsed a plan to uphold "net neutrality" -- the state in which no Internet content provider can manipulate how quickly or easily a user sees their web site. The commission, he said, "must be a smart cop on the beat, preserving a free and open Internet."
Wealthy Americans with secret bank accounts in Switzerland and other offshore sites were given an extra 22 days to reveal their accounts and thus escape the stiffer penalties that will be incurred if their accounts are discovered by IRS investigators after the end of the amnesty period.
Scientists found that an increased inability to manage money, including new difficulties understanding a bank statement, balancing a cheque book, paying bills, preparing bills and counting coins and currency, can be signs of impending dementia in persons already afflicted with mild cognitive impairment.
The Philadelphia School District was deciding which district programs to reduce or cut in the wake of the state budget deal reached last week, which gives schools $160 million less than originally agreed.
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