Here is a video from Brave New Foundation, but their point here about the private prison business is larger than immigrants -- the entire War on Drugs business feeds this industry as well.
That's how I characterized the recent brouhahas of the Christina School Board with their RTT fiascos in correspondence with Pandora.
Now we have the next act of the Christina School District All Drama, no KIDS extravaganza as Councilman Jea Street weighs in to call for the State to take over the District.
Governor Markell has spent the past three days rolling out his plan to spend newly DEFAC-found revenues of $320M. Links to the Governor's Press Releases on this are below, and worth looking at in their entirety.
Have you been watching this unfold over the last day or so? The House GOP leadership has been throwing Ryan under the bus and walking back any idea of privatizing Medicare as part of a budget scheme. Why?
First, this looks like ALOT of fun. Second, this is a bipartisan effort to help raise money for Special Olympics Delaware. Third, hit the link to help these Osienski and Lavelle raise money. And fourth, I'm just going to post the entire Press Release so you have all of the details:
Via the Star-Ledger, we find that a NJ think tank -- New Jersey Policy Perspective -- has taken a hard look at the massive subsidies being funneled to private businesses in NJ and found that there aren't many jobs associated with all of that money. In the past two years, NJ has given out $822M in tax subsidies:
UI posted Baratunde Thurston's reaction to President Obama's presentation of his long form birth certificate a couple of days back. Just as emotional, just as powerful is this piece from Goldie Taylor:
There have been a few articles in various places over the week that might be of interest as we continue to debate the future of education here in Delaware:
This is being played in various markets (including Ryan's in Wisconsin and accompanied by a huge robocall effort to talk to votes over 45 in Republican House Districts) : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbvfGlI_xLg[/youtube]…