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Coming Home: Travel and Long Distance Caregivers

by Guest Post on December 22, 2010

Keith Hall of Fairfax, VA recently wrote an indignant letter to the Washington Post, which was published on November 28, 2010. The letter was titled, “No way to treat an 80-year-old impaired woman” and described the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) pat-down of his severely incapacitated mother on a risky flight from Florida that was “deemed [...]

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Government rules and regulations lack human touch

by David Burns on July 29, 2008

As with most things put into law, regulations often fall short of their intended mission. Once written out in black and white, rules can remove any sort of wiggle room for compassion and human decision-making. Published rules have their consequences for both the enforcer and those whom they are written to protect.

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