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D.C. City Council Members Stand Up for Students, Tell Duncan to Hand Back Vouchers
Bi-partisan (see here at 96.45 minutes, here, and here), bi-cameral efforts are underway in Congress to save the program. Now a majority of the D.C. City Council has joined the fray by urging Secretary Duncan to give students their scholarships back-students like Latasha Bennett’s four-year-old daughter Nia, who was set ...
California
California Community Colleges 9th annual John W. Rice Diversity and Equity Award ceremony
PRI’s Lance T. Izumi met former Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, at the California Community Colleges 9th annual John W. Rice Diversity and Equity Award ceremony. Mr. Izumi is the President of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors and spoke at the ceremony as well. Event Information
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Radical health care reform is not needed
Tribune-Review (Greenville, SC), July 10, 2009 President Barack Obama is planning some dramatic — and potentially very costly — changes to health care that simply may not be necessary to provide health insurance for millions of currently uninsured Americans. Recently, a senior White House political adviser would not rule out ...
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Patients, not lawmakers, should control health care reform
Congressional Republicans — as well as some Democrats — are butting heads with President Barack Obama and his congressional allies over the latter group’s desire for a “public option” in health care. This new government-run insurance program would theoretically compete against the 1,300 private insurance companies already in existence as ...
Commentary
Best News of the Day
The SEIU spent $85 million during the 2008 campaign season, largely to elect politicians favorable to its two key priorities: removing employees’ right to a secret ballot for workplace certification, and a federal take-over of health care. The latter is utterly critical to the survival of union power. Unions have ...
Commentary
Health Plan CEO for Massachusetts Governor?
Gutsy move: He’s a leader in the industry (health insurance) that 4 of 10 people believe is most responsible for increasing health costs, and “enjoys” a reputation as low as tobacco and oil companies. More importantly, he was a key player in Governor Romney’s reform that mandated universal health coverage, ...
Business & Economics
President plays high-stakes poker with taxpayers’ money
Like a young, aggressive poker player, President Obama seems to have pushed in all his chips on his budget. The size of the gamble is nearly unprecedented because the pot holds the nation’s economic future for at least a generation. There is agreement across the political spectrum that the president’s ...
Business & Economics
When Economic Stimulus Does Not Stimulate
A majority of Americans now give President Obama’s handling of the economy a negative rating and many economists and city officials are concerned that Obama’s gargantuan stimulus effort has not given the expected quick boost to the economy. Some argue this is because funds have been slow in coming due ...
Commentary
Obamacare
Pres. Barack Obama is on a mission to deliver free health insurance to the uninsured in the name of health care reform. What is in it for you? If you are happy with your health insurance plan, does it matter to you? Can the government afford another budget busting expenditure ...
Business & Economics
Obama’s Stimulus is Proving as Disastrous as FDR’s New Deal
Talking about his first few months in office, President Obama said this at a fundraiser in Los Angeles: We started off in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. And so what we decided to do was pass the largest economic recovery package in the history ...
D.C. City Council Members Stand Up for Students, Tell Duncan to Hand Back Vouchers
Bi-partisan (see here at 96.45 minutes, here, and here), bi-cameral efforts are underway in Congress to save the program. Now a majority of the D.C. City Council has joined the fray by urging Secretary Duncan to give students their scholarships back-students like Latasha Bennett’s four-year-old daughter Nia, who was set ...
California Community Colleges 9th annual John W. Rice Diversity and Equity Award ceremony
PRI’s Lance T. Izumi met former Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, at the California Community Colleges 9th annual John W. Rice Diversity and Equity Award ceremony. Mr. Izumi is the President of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors and spoke at the ceremony as well. Event Information
Radical health care reform is not needed
Tribune-Review (Greenville, SC), July 10, 2009 President Barack Obama is planning some dramatic — and potentially very costly — changes to health care that simply may not be necessary to provide health insurance for millions of currently uninsured Americans. Recently, a senior White House political adviser would not rule out ...
Patients, not lawmakers, should control health care reform
Congressional Republicans — as well as some Democrats — are butting heads with President Barack Obama and his congressional allies over the latter group’s desire for a “public option” in health care. This new government-run insurance program would theoretically compete against the 1,300 private insurance companies already in existence as ...
Best News of the Day
The SEIU spent $85 million during the 2008 campaign season, largely to elect politicians favorable to its two key priorities: removing employees’ right to a secret ballot for workplace certification, and a federal take-over of health care. The latter is utterly critical to the survival of union power. Unions have ...
Health Plan CEO for Massachusetts Governor?
Gutsy move: He’s a leader in the industry (health insurance) that 4 of 10 people believe is most responsible for increasing health costs, and “enjoys” a reputation as low as tobacco and oil companies. More importantly, he was a key player in Governor Romney’s reform that mandated universal health coverage, ...
President plays high-stakes poker with taxpayers’ money
Like a young, aggressive poker player, President Obama seems to have pushed in all his chips on his budget. The size of the gamble is nearly unprecedented because the pot holds the nation’s economic future for at least a generation. There is agreement across the political spectrum that the president’s ...
When Economic Stimulus Does Not Stimulate
A majority of Americans now give President Obama’s handling of the economy a negative rating and many economists and city officials are concerned that Obama’s gargantuan stimulus effort has not given the expected quick boost to the economy. Some argue this is because funds have been slow in coming due ...
Obamacare
Pres. Barack Obama is on a mission to deliver free health insurance to the uninsured in the name of health care reform. What is in it for you? If you are happy with your health insurance plan, does it matter to you? Can the government afford another budget busting expenditure ...
Obama’s Stimulus is Proving as Disastrous as FDR’s New Deal
Talking about his first few months in office, President Obama said this at a fundraiser in Los Angeles: We started off in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. And so what we decided to do was pass the largest economic recovery package in the history ...
