Thursday marked the one year anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act by President Obama. There was quite a bit in the press about it. I found two things of particular interest. The first was a speech in DC delivered by New York Congressman Anthony Weiner. And, the second, was a writeup by […]
By now you’ve no doubt heard that House Republicans voted to strip federal funding from National Public Radio. The bill, which was rushed through before the scheduled House recess, passed 228 to 192, with only seven Republicans voting against it. If passed by the Senate, the bill would keep an estimated $90 million from NPR. […]
The results of the 2010 Census were made public today. Among other things, it was revealed that the U.S. population grew 9.7% over the course of the past decade, which is the slowest rate of growth since the Great Depression. That, of course, is an average, and some states did better than others. While several […]
