Public Option Gathering Steam: A health-care reform package that includes a public option with a state opt-out, along with an end to the insurance industry's antitrust exemption, is gaining support, the Washington Post reports.
Chivalry Lives: When Aretha Franklin got emotional singing "Amazing Grace" at a donor dinner at Ford's Theatre Wednesday night, she asked if anyone in the intimate audience had a hanky. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy rose to the occasion, leaping up to give her one, according to the Washington Post Reliable Source column today.
Feinberg's Reforms: Joe Nocera's column in the New York Times looks at pay czar Kenneth Feinberg's dream of reforming Wall Street compensation, and concludes that only shareholders can change the culture.
SEC Case Against BofA: The deadline for adding defendants has come and gone with nobody being added, reports the American Lawyer in this story looking at the latest twists in the Bank of America case.
Soupy Sales, Dead at 83: The slapstick comedian who ruled the airwaves in the 1960s died in the Bronx, N.Y. Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reports . Sales once boasted that his face had been on the receiving end of 25,000 pies during his lifetime. If you don't remember watching him, you might remember the gag that almost got his show canceled: he urged kids to get the "green pieces of paper" they could find in their parents' wallets and send them to him. He got $80,000 in the mail and an FCC complaint, and his show was briefly suspended.
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