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I haven’t read this entire study and to be totally truthful I don’t know much about this umbrella chambers of commerce organization in the EU, so it’s hard to gauge how credible the research is. “It will take the EU until 2072 to reach US levels of income per capita, and then only if the [...]
“But Boris Ferrera, an official with Honduras’ civil aviation authority, said there was plenty of room for the plane to land.” [From Plane skids off runway in Honduras, 5 dead | Reuters]
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29May
Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized
This is simply outrageous and yet another sad example of why public schools are failing. Seven Washington high schools won’t be getting their share of a $13.2 million grant to enhance the teaching of Advanced Placement courses in math in science. Washington state won the grant last year, but stakeholders haven’t been able to figure [...]
I met up for coffee with Jitendra Gupta and Tedd Corman just a week ago and we talked at length about where they are as a company and the spectrum that includes comment tracking systems (e.g. CoComment) on one end and comment replacement services (e.g. Intense Debate) on the other. The net takeaway is that [...]
The trade group, which represents 1.2 million residential and commercial brokers, called the settlement “a win-win” for its industry and consumers. “Today I can say with clear knowledge … that the real estate industry is dynamic, entrepreneurial and fiercely competitive,” said NAR President Richard Gaylord in a statement. [From Online real estate agents get equality [...]
UPDATE: okay here’s a little more detail on this, it doesn’t sound like such a dumb idea as described here. Like I frequently say, government solutions often end up creating problems bigger than the ones they are trying to solve… this is just such an example. What exactly is the point of this exercise? The [...]
This is legislative cynicism at it’s worst. The only reason the legislature believes that they can get away with a 25% tax on porn is that they believe there will be few who will publicly criticize them for trying. Proposed Porn Tax in California: “This bill would impose a tax on the sale of, or [...]