Posts by jason330

On kindergarten testing: Replacing kindergarten playtime with formal lessons and standardized tests could have a wide range of negative consequences, according to the Alliance for Childhood, a nonprofit that advocates…

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I'm not yet a Geezer, but I remember when we had laws that banks had to follow...that was nice. Using The Bank: Actual audio from a 1947 educational film from…

Doing the right thing. Will Collin O'Mara, Markell's nominee to head DNREC, focus on economic development rather than protections and enforcement? When I asked O'Mara, he said climate prosperity starts with…

Everything I said about Geithner and Obama regarding the economy was wrong. The markets have spoken and nobody can dispute the all knowing wisdom of the markets. footnote: That sound…

Good stuff. I think Howard Dean the outsider is going to be a powerful force in Dem politics.

Duncan Black nails it:

I don't like gun posts.  They are just about as bad as abortion posts when it comes to generating interesting threads.   Having said that, I think I should mention…

As I mentioned in another thread, Ed Begley is a very non-political guy. His message at the Delaware Great Green Expo on Saturday was very common sense oriented. He said,…

It all makes sense on the surface, but he still seems very beholden to the Wall Street system to me.

In 1997 Ed Begely Jr. played Dr. Chris Vanderkamp on one episode of "The Drew Carey Show."

I'm no financial genius like Tim Geithner, but it seems to me that the current Obama/Geithner plan puts the FDIC under a hell of a lot of stress. And if…