Posts tagged university
AlaskaDispatch.com: On education speech, Palin blunders on Reagan’s education
Jun 28th
Oh my. You had to figure this might happen when Sarah Palin, one-time best governor of Alaska, started pallin’ around with those journalist types there at Fox News. Or any of those journalist types there in the lamestream media, you know.
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Loading ...Josh Nelson: What Role Will Senator Murkowski Play in Climate and Energy Negotiations?
Jun 28th
Speaking at a sparsely-attended luncheon in Fairbanks, AK on Friday, Senator Murkowski (R-AL) touted her failed effort to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions as a ‘ badge of honor .’ She went on to explain why she considered the maneuver, which went down by a 53-47 margin on June 10th, a qualified success. “We made our point.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Palin’s California State University Speech Rails Against ‘Dumpster Divers’
Jun 26th
TURLOCK, Calif.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Amy Traub: Higher Costs and Lower Quality as Public Services Go Private
Jun 25th
As budget crises force cities to cut back public services, private companies are stepping in to profit from the unmet demand. But there’s a cost to communities when markets take over what were once public functions: the new private services are often more expensive and with less public oversight, they may also offer lower quality. In California, revenue-strapped community colleges are struggling to cope with escalating demand for affordable higher education.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mark Sanford, One Year After ‘Hiking The Appalachian Trail’
Jun 25th
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The governor who became the butt of late-night jokes for “hiking the Appalachian Trail” may be having the last laugh. A year after South Carolina’s Mark Sanford tearfully confessed an extramarital affair, the Republican has won a major state budget victory and seen his hand-chosen candidate nominated to succeed him
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bob Cesca: Governor Haley Barbour: A New Level of Stupid
Jun 23rd
I never thought I’d write this, but I think we’ve discovered a new level of stupid below the heretofore impenetrable Sarah Palin floor. It’s not unlike the discovery of a previously unknown species of protohuman deep within a cave somewhere, revealing some new twist in the constantly expanding canon of human evolution. There is, in fact, a Republican of national prominence who makes Sarah Palin seem brighter and less contradictory by comparison
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: Protecting Our Government From Corporate Influence
Jun 23rd
Over these last two months we have watched the unfolding disaster in the Gulf with horror. We have seen precious lives lost; hard-earned livelihoods hammered; treasured ways of life imperiled.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Lawrence Wittner: BP’s Other Gifts to America — And to the World
Jun 22nd
The offshore oil drilling catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico brought to us by BP has overshadowed its central role over the past century in fostering some other disastrous events. BP originated in 1908 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company — a British corporation whose name was changed to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company two decades later.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jerry Brown House, Worth $1.8 Million, Doesn’t Fit California Governor Candidate’s Tale Of Frugality
Jun 22nd
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When he takes to the campaign trail, Jerry Brown is fond of reminding voters that he shunned the governor’s mansion in Sacramento in favor of a rented apartment during his first tour in the executive office and lived in a downtown loft in Oakland while he was mayor of the crime-ridden city.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...2010 Primary Results: Utah, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi
Jun 22nd
COLUMBIA, S.C.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Gregory Cendana: America’s College Graduation Deficit
Jun 21st
As the mid-term elections draw closer, the bandwagon of anti-deficit spending is getting crowded. Self-righteous cries for shortsighted budget cuts masquerading as calls for fiscal responsibility are as common as denunciations of BP
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Gulf Oil Spill Commission Short On Technical Expertise
Jun 21st
WASHINGTON — The panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is short on technical expertise but long on talking publicly about “America’s addiction to oil.” One member has blogged about it regularly. Only one of the seven commissioners, the dean of Harvard’s engineering and applied sciences school, has a prominent engineering background – but it’s in optics and physics. Another is an environmental scientist with expertise in coastal areas and the after-effects of oil spills.
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Jun 21st
FREMONT, Neb. — Angered by a recent influx of Hispanic workers attracted by jobs at local meatpacking plants, voters in the eastern Nebraska city of Fremont will decide Monday whether to ban hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants. The vote will be the culmination of a two-year fight that saw proponents collect enough signatures to put the question to a public vote
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jacob M. Appel: Are We Ready for Coed Hospital Rooms?
Jun 19th
Long emergency room stays are one of the most unpleasant and potentially dangerous aspects of healthcare delivery in most western nations. In recent years, Canada has addressed this problem, in part, by permitted male and female patients to share hospital rooms, separated by a privacy curtain, in the belief that most patients would gladly bunk with a person of the opposite gender in order to receive quality care as rapidly as possible. Over the past several months, however, a handful of high-profile protests by disgruntled “modesty” advocates have been pressuring Canadian providers to reconsider their policies.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sarah Palin Stanislaus Speech: California University Will Allow Media at Palin event
Jun 19th
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After months of requests from reporters, a California university on Friday agreed to allow members of the media to attend a fundraiser next week featuring Sarah Palin.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rebecca Abrahams: South Carolina Democratic Party Denies Rawl’s Protest
Jun 18th
Despite expert testimony presented from multiple computer science and security experts arguing against the legitimacy of last Tuesday’s Democratic primary election results for U.S. Senate, the South Carolina Democratic Party, by a vote of 38.5 to 7.5, resoundingly defeated former state legislator and Circuit Court Judge Vic Rawl’s protest filing. When asked after the hearing if he inteded to appeal the decision, Rawl stated flatly, “No.” Rawl addressed reporters after the decision was announced: “We cannot seize, legally, machines, we do not have the ability nor the power to go back through and look at everything as people would request us to do
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