Hot off the Press: Public transit's greatest hits edition

A 40-year building ban on the Navajo reservation was lifted in 2006, paving the way for tribal members who live there to improve their third world like living conditions they've had to endure. But many have nothing to do so with: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bennett-freeze5-2009nov05,0,6964296.story. Here's the accompanying audio slide show: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bennett-freeze-ss,0,760471.htmlstory.

According to this blog post on the LAT, "at least 13 major companies, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase, have received allocations of swine flu vaccine." Many are crying foul, saying the government is giving them favorable treatment: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/11/swine-flu-now-in-virtually-every-country-as-who-braces-for-winter-season.html. I suppose if they die, they can't pay us back (well, somebody would have to eventually...hopefully).

A initiative in Denver to require police to impound vehicles driven by unlicensed motorists was rejected by voters. Many thought the law was unfairly targeting undocumented immigrants: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-denver-impound5-2009nov05,0,4726885.story.

Here's a NYT blog post about why exercise alone does not guarantee weight loss: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/phys-ed-why-doesnt-exercise-lead-to-weight-loss/?em.

Vague real estate law in Russia is at the center of a dispute between the city government in Moscow and the residents of a Soviet-era gardening collective: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/world/europe/09land.html?_r=1. According to the article, Russians can buy houses, but not the land they're built on. Apparently they forgot about the land issue when property laws were developed at the fall of communism.

Thoughtful blog post, though not totally enlightening until the end, about the health care debate from Mark Mardell, the BBC's North America editor: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/2009/11/the_hard_fact_of_healthcare_co.html.