House R Redistricting Plan Not A Serious Plan

Where was the largest proportion of population growth during the past decade? If you said lower NCC, you'd be correct. The area around Middletown and its environs have exploded. No serious redistricting plan could avoid this development, yet somehow the House Rethug redistricting plan manages to reapportion without even providing one new district in this area, let alone the two that the population shift calls for.

How To Create a Job

This is the title of this week's This American Life episode, where they turned over the program to NPR's simply amazing Planet Money Team. What is fantastic about this bit of financial reporting, is that Planet Money listens to the platitudes and Conventional Wisdom about job creation and goes off to see if any of it is true.

Quote of the Day 5/17/11

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained." - President James A. Garfield