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Are Newspapers Dead?

Submitted by drslice on December 10, 2008 - 1:53am

YES: 57%    NO: 43%   (vote now)

The Tribune company has filed for bankruptcy.  The New York Times has announced that it plans to borrow as much as $225 million against its newly opened building.  Advertising revenues are down 15% this year.  Readers are flocking to the web, and the newspaper companies have not been able to adjust quickly enough.  Bloggers and citizen journalists now deliver the news to people before the mainstream media can piece together a report.

All this seems to point to a decline and eventual death of the newspaper industry.  Are newspapers a thing of the past?

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Should Microsoft acquire Yahoo?

Submitted by mrissues on June 20, 2008 - 5:01pm

YES: 29%    NO: 71%   (vote now)

From Wikinews:

Software giant Microsoft has been attempting to purchase Internet giant Yahoo! in hopes of leveraging the internet presence of Yahoo! in Microsoft's battle with Google. The original offer for Yahoo! was $44 billion; however since this offer Microsoft has seen a revenue drop this last quarter which could greatly affect the software giant's ability to up the price again in hopes Yahoo! would accept.

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Vote for Congestion Pricing in NYC!

Submitted by mrissues on June 21, 2008 - 12:47am

YES: 50%    NO: 50%   (vote now)

On April 22, 2007, Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York City, citing to what he considered successes in London, Singapore and Stockholm, proposed a plan to charge $8 per day for cars to use the streets of the central business district (southern half of Manhattan) but not when using only the marginal highways, or nights or weekends. It would not involve satellite location, but drivers who wanted their tolls collected automatically could have a transponder like the E-ZPass already used to collect tolls on tunnels and bridges.

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Make Citi drop naming rights for new Mets ballpark!

Submitted by drslice on November 26, 2008 - 11:42am

YES: 58%    NO: 42%   (vote now)

On the brink of collapse, Citigroup this week announced one of the largest layoffs in history, with plans to eliminate 52,000 jobs.  Citi also took a $20 billion bailout from the U.S. government, and taxpayers will be forced to guarantee $306 billion in risky assets.

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Obama's "Team of Rivals": A Good Idea?

Submitted by mrissues on December 1, 2008 - 2:17pm

YES: 50%    NO: 50%   (vote now)

Barack Obama has introduced his national security team on Monday.  Former Democratic rival Hillary Clinton will be the President-Elect's choice for Secretary of State, while Republican Defense Secretary Robert Gates will be keeping his current post.

Rounding out his Monday announcements, Obama named retired Marine Gen. Jim Jones as his national security adviser, Eric Holder as attorney general, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as homeland security secretary and Susan Rice as ambassador to the United Nations.

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Revoke the Detroit Lions right to host Thanksgiving Game!

Submitted by drslice on November 28, 2008 - 2:00am

YES: 50%    NO: 50%   (vote now)

In this year's "Thanksgiving Classic," the Tennessee Titans destroyed the Detroit Lions 47-10.  The Lions are consistently one of the worst teams in football, yet they are awarded the honor of hosting a game every year on Thanksgiving.

Yes, it's a tradition, but it's about time that this particular tradition came to an end.  Let's get some better matchups for the big Thanksgiving game, and not subject a national audience to the Detroit Lions on the day we are supposed to be giving thanks.

Are we agreed?

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Send Plaxico to Jail?

Submitted by mrissues on December 5, 2008 - 12:59pm

YES: 70%    NO: 30%   (vote now)

New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress faces a minimum of 3½ years jail time if convicted of criminal handgun possession stemming from an incident in which he accidentally shot himself in the leg at a New York City nightclub.

Fortunately for the Super Bowl hero, the injury was not serious.  Unfortunately, Burress did not have a permit to carry the weapon, and the city of New York has stringent gun control laws.  Mayor Michael Bloomberg has advocated prosecuting him to the fullest extent of the law.

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Should Sen. Bunning continue to block extension of unemployment benefits?

Submitted by mrissues on March 2, 2010 - 3:41pm

YES: 17%    NO: 83%   (vote now)

Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) stood firm Tuesday in single-handedly blocking the Senate from extending unemployment benefits, highway funds and other programs in the face of mounting criticism from Democrats and pleas from his own party.

The White House called Mr. Bunning's actions "irrational."  Senator Susan Collins, the moderate Republican from Maine, became the latest lawmaker, and the first Republican, to try to override the objection.

Mr. Bunning is arguing that the Senate should first find a way to pay for the expense.

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LeBron James wants to switch from #23 to #6

Submitted by edb on March 2, 2010 - 4:06pm

YES: 20%    NO: 80%   (vote now)

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that LeBron James has filed an application to switch his jersey number from 23 to No. 6 for the 2010-11 season.

James first brought up the idea in November, saying he wanted to give up No. 23 out of respect to his hero, Michael Jordan. At that time he said he was "50/50" on switching to No. 6, his Olympic number and the day of the month his first son was born. That now seems to be 100 percent.

"I've done it," James said. "I already sent it in. I'm going to be No. 6."

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Has Martin Scorsese jumped the shark?

Submitted by pollo on March 2, 2010 - 5:37pm

YES: 20%    NO: 80%   (vote now)

OK, nobody denies that Scorsese is a great director.  But what's up with him lately?  First of all, he keeps using Leonardo DiCaprio who just isn't that good.  And is especially miscast in Scorsese's movies.  He could not have been more out of place in Gangs of New York, and wasn't great as Howard Hughes either.

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