cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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Late Night Video — Immigrants for Sale
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.
All Drama, No KIDS
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.
School Board Elections Today!
School Board elections are being held today across Delaware — polls are open from 10AM til 8PM. Check these sites for details in your county:
Late Night Video — Bill Maher’s New Rules on Bin Laden and Republicans
Totally NSFW, but funny as hell. Those of you who suffered through Jensen’s this afternoon NEED this as a palate cleanser:
Building Delaware’s Future, or How to Throw Taxpayer Money at Businesses
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.
Late Night Video — Atlas Shrugged, Part II
This time, done by Andy Cobb and Second City: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seKhVJDOzlQ[/youtube]
Ryan’s Medicare Killer Is Dead
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?
Over the Edge for Special Olympics!
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:
The Cost of Tax Breaks for Jobs
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:
One Goal of Budget Cuts
Killing the publishing of crucial data series and analysis. Or better — smothering the building of open government in its crib.
Late Night Video — Show Us Your Papers
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:
Sunday Reading — Education
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:
More Like This Please — Paul Ryan Is Trying to End Medicare
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] And from the DCCC (this is very good from them — too long for a commercial run, but incredibly clear about the GOPers who ran […]
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