Second-round finalists of the Obama administration’s signature Race to the Top education reform program, including Maryland and the District of Columbia, are receiving millions of federal stimulus dollars to improve their struggling public schools. But an inherently flawed process does not bode well for the program’s ultimate success.
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In its first five weeks, the San Francisco Community Ambassadors pilot program has shown signs of being a solid success in making Muni transit safer for some of its most vulnerable riders. Unfortunately, the ambassadors will be gone as of Sept. 29 if no funding can be found.
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Economic prospects continue to grow gloomier as the Commerce Department revised the second-quarter growth rate substantially downward from the initial estimate of 2.4 percent to a mere 1.6 percent. Just to stay on an even keel in terms of job creation, the growth rate needs to be at least 3 percent. It has averaged only 2.9 percent for the past four quarters.
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Higher gas prices, fewer jobs and a competitive advantage for foreign energy firms. Congress needs to consider these consequences before signing off on President Barack Obama’s proposal to remove the domestic oil and gas industry’s exemption from taxation of income earned overseas.
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With New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg condemning as “un-American” those who believe the ground zero Islamic center should be moved elsewhere, the ill-advised project’s most prominent defender is tottering on the precipice of the deep end.
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San Francisco police Chief George Gascón used angry phrases like “acts of negligence” and “we are going to hold people accountable” in his Friday news conference about the department’s lengthy “inability to see the signs” of a drug-testing scandal at its crime laboratory.
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Next time President Barack Obama wants to bail out a broke state, members of Congress should look at the Los Angeles Unified School District and see what it’s paying for.
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Republicans currently enjoy a 50 percent to 43 percent advantage over Democrats among registered voters, the highest yet in Gallup’s weekly tracking of the 2010 midterm elections. But a Republican victory in November will mean nothing if it means more GOP business-as-usual.
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On Election Day 2008, three members of the New Black Panther Party were captured on tape at a Philadelphia polling place attempting to intimidate voters. All three wore military attire and one wielded a nightstick. The Justice Department, in the last days of President George W. Bush’s presidency, brought a voter intimidation case against the trio, which the department won by default. Then President Obama’s political appointees in the Justice Department got involved.
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It’s no surprise that Americans are angry this year about reckless government spending. Through TARP, the economic stimulus, Obamacare and many other government initiatives, more than $2 trillion has been used to bail out banks, automakers, auto unions, drugmakers, large insurance companies, well-connected investment firms, insurance giants, homeowners, construction companies, artists, actors, state governments and agricultural corporations, to name a few. But, guess what?
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