Zurich-Tampa route takes off from TIA - msnbc.com
26 May 2012, 6:16 am
Joe Lopano landed the top job at Tampa International Airport with a mandate to increase international flights, a longtime sore spot because Tampa has about three dozen weekly international flights while Orlando boasts more than 200. On Friday, Lopano again ...

Will Americans Come to Love ObamaCare’s Insurance Mandate? - Reason.com
24 May 2012, 12:38 pm
It’s conventional wisdom that the individual mandate to purchase health insurance is ObamaCare’s biggest public liability: Polls consistently show that large majorities of the public are opposed to it and have been since before the law passed.

Losing mandate could double health care law costs - CBS News
22 May 2012, 8:54 pm
(MoneyWatch) The federal government is fighting mightily to maintain the requirement, or "mandate," that everyone buy health insurance under the fledgling Affordable Care Act (ACA). A new Rand study reveals why. Without the mandate, the ...

NFL to mandate knee and thigh pads for players - YAHOO!
22 May 2012, 2:28 pm
If the NFL has its way, players will be forced to wear knee and thigh pads beginning in 2013. The NFL might not get its way. The competition committee will discuss the impending rule with the NFL Players Association and there is some expected backlash from ...

Challenge to birth control mandate - FOX News
22 May 2012, 1:45 pm
LAWRENCE MORRIS, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY: This is not about contraception. It is about government compulsion. It is about making our university an agent of the government. I mean look at the first two criteria, you must serve primarily Catholics ...

Who’s Afraid of the Mandate? - The Plank on TNR.com
22 May 2012, 9:48 am
BOSTON—One of the most interesting stories about health care reform in Massachusetts, where I’m on a learning tour this week, is a story that never developed: The backlash against the mandate. In last year’s poll by the Boston Globe and ...

Catholics sue over Obama mandate - Philadelphia Daily News
22 May 2012, 7:32 am
NEW YORK - Roman Catholic dioceses, schools, and other groups sued the Obama administration Monday in eight states and the District of Columbia over a federal mandate that most employers provide workers free birth control as part of their health ...

Dan Walters: Shouldn't hydro count against the carbon reduction mandate? - Sacramento Bee
22 May 2012, 1:06 am
A major component of California's crusade against global warming, one started by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and embraced by successor Jerry Brown, is the legal mandate to have 33 percent of electric power sales from "renewable sources" by ...

Catholic dioceses, colleges sue over Obama mandate - CBS News
21 May 2012, 6:54 pm
NEW YORK — Roman Catholic leaders opened a new front against the Obama administration mandate that employers provide workers birth control coverage, filing federal lawsuits Monday on behalf of dioceses, schools and health care agencies that ...

Biloxi Diocese among Catholic groups suing government over contraceptive health care mandate - Everything Alabama Blog
21 May 2012, 3:04 pm
MOBILE, Alabama-- The Diocese of Biloxi was among a host of Catholic groups across the nation today that filed suit against the U.S. government, opposing a health care mandate that would force employers to provide contraception and abortion ...