Twitter hires veteran telecom policy hand and net neutrality advocate as its first lobbyist in DC.
China became a net importer of US solar technology and hardware last year. But in part that’s because they’re doing so much in solar that their own dominant manufacturers can’t keep up with domestic demand.
Gov. Perry: Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme and a “monstrous lie.”
Until Irene crashed the party, DC was gearing up for the unveiling of the new Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial on the National Mall. Photos from some of the pre-unveiling events that went on last week before the unveiling itself was postponed.
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We take a look back at Rick Perry’s connections to some of the most unsavory aspects of Texas politics over the last decade.
We’ve been telling you for some time now about the Iranian exile group MEK’s heavy-hitting lobbying effort to get removed from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations — and the strange bedfellows it has enlisted in the effort. You can now add former Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) to the list.
Mark Schleifstein, in today’s Times-Picayune: “A new Army Corps of Engineers rating system for the nation’s levees is about to deliver a near-failing grade to New Orleans area dikes, despite the internationally acclaimed $10 billion effort to rebuild the system in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, corps officials have confirmed.”
Let’s stipulate right off the bat that cable news coverage of land-falling hurricanes is an abomination that P.T. Barnum would be proud of. That’s a no-brainer. We can leave it to people like Howard Kurtz to knock that softball right out of the park.
But the cable nets don’t dictate the forecasts of the National Hurricane Center or the National Weather Service, and state and local officials don’t rely on the cable nets when making disaster preparation decisions. So the logical leap made by critics that cable TV hype leads to overreaction by local governments is both wrong and frankly dangerous. Read More