The White House has been pushing hard to enlist utilities in a program that will allow households to much more easily monitor and track their own energy usage. But the biggest energy savings are likely to come from giving similar access to small businesses (big industrial customers already have a handle on their usage because it’s such a big expense).
To its great credit, the family of the late NFL linebacker Junior Seau has agreed to allow researchers to examine his brain for signs of CTE.
Why the heavy emphasis by the Obama campaign on mayoral surrogates? “It can be argued that mayors represent the last functioning form of government in the country,” Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak tells TPM. “Maybe I’m putting that too strongly. But mayors have a lot of credibility these days that you don’t find in Congress.” Evan McMorris-Santoro reports.
The French have announced that they’re investigating new rape allegations involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn and an incident at the W Hotel in Washington, D.C., in December 2010.
Obama trying to make deeper inroads into military voters.
Hard to believe it’s been 4 years since Conrad Black went off to prison. He’s a free man today.
The newly out of the closet Missouri Republican legislator, who came out to oppose the state’s “don’t say gay” bill and may be the only openly gay Republican state legislator in the country, talks to TPM about his big week.
Among this morning’s new jobs numbers, this one: The labor force participation rate fell to 63.6 percent, the lowest level since 1981.
We’re launching a new weekly feature this morning at TPM. The TPM Interview.
Today, David Taintor speaks to New York Magazine reporter and columnist Frank Rich about what life has been like in the year since he walked away from the New York Times, and about why civil political discourse might not be all it’s cracked up to be.
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