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As noted here yesterday, pro wrestling programs aren’t listed in The Daily Beast‘s ranking of the 22 most dangerous shows on television. Tell that to the […]

There are two open government investigations of the pro wrestling industry. One is dormant and probably will be revived only if Senator-elect Richard Blumenthal chooses to […]

Yesterday I reviewed the little that is known so far about the audit by the Connecticut Department of Labor of World Wrestling Entertainment’s alleged independent contractor […]

World Wrestling Entertainment, a Stamford-based company that is being investigated by the Connecticut Department of Labor for alleged misclassification of employees as independent contractors, is a […]

This morning I got an email from Heidi Lane, principal attorney in the Office of Program Policy at the Connecticut Department of Labor. Lane was responding […]

Linda McMahon, losing Senate candidate in a near-landslide, is crawling out of the woodwork a bit faster than expected. That’s like putting the ball on a […]

Blumenthal brings Better Business Bureau to its knees … Blumenthal to ‘actively’ keep the heat on Google … Blumenthal to follow through on investigations of death […]

[originally published at Beyond Chron, November 12, http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Concussion_Issue_Reaches_Critical_Mass_in_American_Culture_and_Politics_8668.html] by Irvin Muchnick Have you seen the new TV commercial from Toyota about concussions in football? The car […]

This week’s issue of Shortlist, a widely circulated men’s magazine in Great Britain, has an important article by writer James McMahon (no relation to Vince and […]