Over the weekend the Baltimore Sun ran a toy safety column Give product safety agency more clout jointly signed by by Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler and Maryland PIRG's David Kosmos. Also, the Vermont Times Argus has Wireless phone monopoly a bad deal by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders as a followup to efforts by him, Vermont PIRG and Vermont's Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce opposing efforts by the mega-monopoly Verizon to gobble up (one Thanksgiving pun is not too many) a wireless competitor.