Archive | April, 2010
The President’s Visit to MogoOrganic
Ed. Note: President Obama continued his White House to Main Street Tour this week with a stop in Iowa where he visited a local business. The President kicked off the White House to Main Street Tour series in December of 2009 in an effort to get out of Washington to hear directly from and share [...]
Continue reading...Help a Reader: Back to School
28 April 2010 – 2:00 pm PST
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Here’s an email I recently received from a reader: I am off to grad school in the fall (full time) in order to further my career. As you know, tuition and costs can be outrageous and my wife and I have been having ongoing discussions on how to best pay for it. We are both [...]
Continue reading...Bloggingheads, New Way Forward, and protests this Thursday
28 April 2010 – 1:19 pm PST
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Two things of interest. Bloggingheads I was recently on bloggingheads with Jesse Eisinger, who was one of the two co-writers of the excellent ProPublica story on Magnetar. Magnetar is the hedge fund that help keep the housing bubble alive in 2006 and 2007 by betting against it. This story became a must-listen The American Life [...]
Continue reading...Military Families: The Potential Victims of Proposed Auto Lending Carve Out
28 April 2010 – 1:18 pm PST
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As the Senate considers the Wall Street reform bill, military families are continuing to fall victim to predatory lenders and abusive auto lending practices – and lobbyists for the industry are hoping to make sure it stays that way by getting a carve-out into Wall Street reform. Military families have been a target of unscrupulous lenders [...]
Continue reading...Dr. Boyce Video: Latino Studies Professor on What You Need to Know About Immigration
28 April 2010 – 1:15 pm PST
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Filed under: Dr. Boyce Money, News With all the intense scrutiny on Arizona for its harsh anti-immigration legislation, the time has truly come for the relationship between the black community and the Latino community to be addressed. In this video, Dr. Boyce Watkins discusses this issue in depth with his friend and colleague, Professor Alan [...]
Continue reading...Dr. Boyce Video: Latino Studies Professor Talks Black-Hispanic Relations
28 April 2010 – 1:10 pm PST
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Filed under: Dr. Boyce Money, News With all the intense scrutiny on Arizona for its harsh anti-immigration legislation, the time has truly come for the relationship between the black community and the Latino community to be addressed. In this video, Dr. Boyce Watkins discusses this issue in depth with his friend and colleague, Professor Alan [...]
Continue reading...Does Success Skew Your Perception?
28 April 2010 – 1:06 pm PST
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I’ve been thinking quite a bit about perception and reality. Particularly, if being successful at something causes you to believe that it’s easier to do than it actually is, or that ‘anyone can do it’. If you make yourself a success at something, no matter what it is, do you start to think that other [...]
Continue reading...Cape Wind project approved
28 April 2010 – 1:00 pm PST
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has approved the Cape Wind offshore wind farm project! In addition to giving the go-ahead, Salazar outlined a few tweaks to incorporate the concerns of those who have opposed the project. The project will be reduced in scope from the original 170 turbines planned to 130. Additional marine [...]
Continue reading...Japan’s solar spacecraft ready to launch
28 April 2010 – 1:00 pm PST
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Japan’s solar sail-powered “space yacht” is all set to launch on May 18. Ikaros (Interplanetary Kite-Craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun) will be the first spacecraft of its kind to attempt to reach deep space. The craft’s 46-foot sails, outfitted with ultra-thin solar cells, will be steered by mission control from the ground, tweaking [...]
Continue reading...Eaton, Takaoka Electric Manufacturing Company Collaborate on Electric Vehicle Charging
28 April 2010 – 12:45 pm PST
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Eaton Corporation will collaborate with Takaoka Electric Manufacturing Company, Ltd. to develop and launch DC Quick Chargers for electric vehicles. electric vehicle (EV) battery packs. The collaboration will enable Eaton to provide a complete line of charging stations across residential, commercial and industrial applications in North America. Tokyo-based Takaoka Electric is a leader in the [...]
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28 April 2010 – 2:18 pm PST
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