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Oct 2, 2026	Food safety finds a place among ‘kitchen-table’ political issues	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Stephanie Armour, KFF Health News The run-up to the midterm elections is turning into a food fight — literally. The summer was marred by a massive foodborne outbreak that sickened scores of peop...
Aug 7, 2026	Farmers Are Getting Control Of Their Equipment Back	For years, John Deere had actively made repairing their tractors near-impossible for anyone but itself and the few “authorized” repair shops—regardless of the ability of its customers to actually visit such shops. Now, in a major win for fa...
Jan 13, 2026	Plastic pellets known as ‘nurdles’ are polluting beaches and waterways	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By David Montgomery, Stateline.org SEADRIFT, Texas — Aboard an aluminum skiff or one of her five kayaks, fourth-generation shrimper and fisherwoman Diane Wilson often plies the coastal bays and str...
Jul 2, 2025	Our National Robocall Nightmare Is Getting Worse Under Donald Trump	According to the latest data on robocalls from the YouMail Robocall Index, the scale of the U.S. robocall problem has grown by another eleven percent year over year. U.S. consumers received just over 4.8 billion robocalls in May. We’ve norm...
Feb 12, 2025	Phone Companies Still Suck At Stopping Unwanted Scam Robocalls, Something That Will Get Much Worse Under Trump 2.0	We’ve long noted how absurd it is that scammers, debt collectors, and greedy telemarketers have ruined our voice communications networks. We’ve somehow just normalized it. We’ve also noted how a big reason our robocall problem never gets fi...
May 8, 2024	Business \| You’ve covered your copayment; now brace yourself for the ‘facility fee’	“Everything else at the provider’s office looks and feels the same,” said Maureen Hensley-Quinn, senior director of the coverage, cost and value team at the nonprofit National Academy for State Health Policy. “But [patients] end up with a l...
Nov 9, 2023	Ambulance rides for just $100? Government advisers want major billing fixes	A panel of government advisers finally has endorsed ideas for Congress to solve the particularly thorny problem of surprise ambulance bills, including a cap on how much patients would have to pay if they took an ambulance. Surprise bills ha...
Jul 10, 2023	FTC wants to ban fake product reviews, warning that AI could make things worse	If the Federal Trade Commission has its way, businesses could soon be fined a hefty sum for hosting or promoting fake product reviews online. Faux five-star and rave reviews of less-than-stellar consumer goods can boost businesses' profits ...
Jul 3, 2023	FTC wants to ban fake product reviews, warns AI could exacerbate problem	Businesses could soon be fined a hefty sum for hosting or promoting fake product reviews online if the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has its way. Faux five-star and rave reviews of less-than-stellar consumer goods can boost businesses' pro...
Apr 22, 2023	Schools are beginning to throw out expired Chromebooks, creating 'piles of electronic waste,' report says	Chromebooks create tons of e-waste when they expire, a US PIRG Education Fund report found. Replacement parts for Chromebooks are difficult to find between different designs, per the report. Advertisement Chromebooks, the budget laptops run...
Apr 21, 2023	“Chromebooks aren’t built to last”: Average device has 4 years of updates left	Enlarge / US PIRG's "Chromebook Churn" report casts a harsh spotlight on flaws in Chromebook repairability and longevity. Scharon Harding reader comments 81 with Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit ...
Mar 10, 2023	These financial firms spark the most consumer complaints, report shows	The three major credit reporting agencies have long drawn scrutiny for their practices, but Americans are growing more frustrated with the nation's Big Three as evidenced by the record number of complaints sent to the U.S. government's cons...
Feb 13, 2023	Patients still have no protection against surprise ambulance bills. And there’s no solution in sight	One night in November 2021, 11 weeks into her pregnancy, Carolyn Provine started bleeding — a lot. When she passed out, her wife and mother-in-law called an ambulance and drove 21 miles to the hospital for an emergency surgery. But the hemo...
Jan 11, 2023	Wirtz Law Shares Insights on Common Car Issues Reported in California’s 2022 Lemon Law Index	SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA, January 11, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Upside-down information screens. Sudden losses of power while driving in heavy California traffic. Batteries responding to a full charge and catching on fire. Exploding airb...
Jan 2, 2023	23 things we think will happen in 2023	This will be the fourth year in a row that the staff of Future Perfect has given itself the task of trying to predict, well, the future. It’s in the name of the section, but forecasting is something that can benefit you as a thinker whether...
Dec 14, 2022	‘Right to repair’ movement gains momentum in the tightly controlled world of medical devices	When Covid-19’s first surge hit Boston in 2020, biomedical engineer Scot Mackeil knew every single ventilator mattered. Recruited by a local hospital to vet ventilators from a federal stockpile, he examined hundreds of the life-sustaining m...
Dec 12, 2022	‘It’s going to cut solar off at the knees’: reaction to California net metering proposals ahead of key vote	On 15 December, the California Public Utilities Commission will vote on the latest net energy meeting (NEM) proposal regarding the state’s rooftop solar market. Ahead of the vote, activists have taken to the streets in a series of demonstra...
Nov 1, 2021	COP26 coverage: Resources and interview opportunities	WASHINGTON -- Representatives from about 200 countries are set to attend the United Nations' climate change conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, from October 31 to November 12. The event is expected to attract an estimated 25,000 people -...

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Parsers VC has collected 19 articles mentioning The Public Interest Network, among them “Food safety finds a place among ‘kitchen-table’ political issues” (Oct 2, 2026) and “Farmers Are Getting Control Of Their Equipment Back” (Aug 7, 2026).

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Yes, The Public Interest Network is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 13, 2026.