Government Ownership Of Railways Considered As The Next Great Step In American Progress (1910)
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Another: STATEMENT: LGBT Equality Fight Continues Country Is Making Progress Despite Setback in Maine By Jeff Krehely Maine voters rejected same-sex couple marriage rights yesterday, but other states are moving toward equality. Maine voters rejected a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry. Their repeal comes just six months after the measure was passed by the Maine...
The Maine View (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
As Matthew Stone has reported, a new study grading state’s education innovation came out recently. The study, conducted by the Center for American Progress, the American Enterprise Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The study explored how well states fostered innovations such as charter schools, use of technology, and transparency to name a few [...]
P/Oed Patriot (Free subscription) | yesterday
A ccording to the White House Blog Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the Center for American Progress during a Discussion about the "Middle Class". Here is the Video from the White House Website: According to the Center for American Progress's(CAP) Website they are: "a think tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action....
Perspective Journal: News and Polit (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
... comment. She’d come to Washington to publicize her new venture with John Podesta of The Center for American Progress called “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything.” On Oct. 16, she tweeted : “ I’m in our nation’s capital today speaking about The Shriver Report. You can read all about at http://awomansnation.com/” . In the report, Shriver writes: “ My role model,...
Schools Matter (Free subscription) | yesterday
Segregated charter chain gangs such as KIPP and the KIPP knockoffs have quickened the impetus toward resegregation of American schools. But only in school districts like Pulaski County and North Little Rock, Arkansas, which continue to have binding desegregation orders handed down from decades earlier, does the threat of the new apartheid via charter schools get any attention by education officials...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The scramble for minerals did not spark the conflict in eastern Congo, but war profiteering has become the fuel that keeps the region aflame and lies beneath the surface of major regional tensions, notes a strategy paper released today by the Enough Project at the Center for American Progress.
The Plank (Free subscription) | yesterday
On the heels of President Obama's speech last week touting the need for radical improvements in U.S. schools, the Center for American Progress (CAP) released "Leaders and Laggards," a state-by-state report on education innovation. CAP assesses states and the District of Columbia in seven key areas, including school management, teacher hiring and evaluation practices, the ability...
Worldfocus (Free subscription) | yesterday
... China’s engagement today on these four transnational issues leaves something to be desired from an American point of view. While China does play by the international rules to a large extent in these four areas, China does not reliably use its clout or leverage either to solve global problems or strengthen the system. Rarely does it show proactive leadership on global problems, though the...
Antitrust Law Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Earlier this year, in her first speech as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Antitrust Division, Christine Varney referred to Americans' growing reliance on high-tech solutions in the home and workplace, and stated that her Department “planned to devote attention to understanding the unique competition-related issues posed by these markets”....
Dotage - St. Louis, Missouri (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to highlight, rather than hide, increasingly large structures dedicated to that ultimate symbol of American progress and freedom--the automobile. From the article: There was an era, says Sarah Leavitt, curator of the National Building Museum show, when cities took pride in these structures. But that pride, based on the sense that a modern city couldn't progress without adequate...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday
... post we saw how America's most-influential liberal climate blogger, Joe Romm of the Center for American Progress, seeks to intimidate the press corps through misrepresentation and character assassination. In this post we will see how Joe Romm uses the tactic of guilt-by-association to suggest that experts he disagrees with, including advocates of strong governmental action on global...
One Utah (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Hat Tip to mcjoan at Kos. From Jessica Arons, Director of the Women’s Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. 1. It effectively bans coverage for most abortions from all public and private health plans in the Exchange: In addition to prohibiting direct government funding for abortion, it also prohibits [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Appignani Bioethics Center, a project of the American Humanist Association, held a panel discussion today at the National Press Club to examine controversial emerging technologies in biomedical sciences and climate change. The topics were framed by Jonathan Moreno and Andrew Light, both of the Center for American Progress, who considered...
2 Political Junkies (Free subscription) | yesterday
... an interview with TPMDC, [the Director of the Women's Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress, Jessica] Arons suggests it may be even more complicated than that. One of the pillars of reform legislation is a provision called "guaranteed issue," which holds, basically, that insurers in the exchange must sell consumers whichever insurance policies they...
Schools Matter (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
A big shout-out to Dr. Bruce Baker, who teaches at Rutgers when he is not doing a Bracey-esque job of sticking hatpins in the corporate reform gasbags who will say anything, do anything, to gain control of the three-quarters of a trillion dollars that Americans spend each year on education. Check him out School Finance 101's Blog . Here is today' entry: A quick note on Center for American...
