The White House has announced it plans to nominate Alan Krueger of Princeton University as the next top economic adviser to President Obama. If confirmed by the Senate, Krueger–who served as assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy during the first two years of the Obama administration–would chair the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He’d
Continue reading …Hurricane Irene never hit New York City in the apocalyptic, big-city disaster scenario that Mayor Michael Bloomberg had spelled out late last week, but the storm still managed to leave 5 million homes and businesses without power and at least two dozen dead, according to the Associated Press. The storm caused some of the worst flooding in
Continue reading …We give colleges billions in public subsidies–but what are they doing for us? That’s what editors at Washington Monthly aimed to find out with their unusual college rankings, released today. The Monthly’s roster of schools rates them not on the basis of how exclusive they are, but on how much they help their communities and
Continue reading …We give colleges billions in public subsidies–but what are they doing for us? That’s what editors at Washington Monthly aimed to find out with their unusual college rankings, released today. The Monthly’s roster of schools rates them not on the basis of how exclusive they are, but on how much they help their communities and
Continue reading …Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news: • Irene has left parts of Vermont and New York severely flooded, but did not turn into a big-city disaster. (AP) • Travelers are still dealing with fallout from the delays of thousands of east-coast airline flights thanks to the storm. (New York Times) • But on
Continue reading …Hurricane Irene, a Texas-sized tropical storm packing massive amounts of rains, has begun its assault on North Carolina. From there, forecasters are calling for Irene to slowly churn northward to the densely-populated areas of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. Some 55 million people from the Carolinas to Cape Cod could be impacted. Yahoo!
Continue reading …A Missouri judge temporarily blocked a controversial law that prohibits teachers from talking to students over Facebook and other sites, ruling that it is an unacceptable infringement on free speech. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem’s injunction prevents the law from going into effect until at least February, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reports, “allowing time
Continue reading …Lawyers are warning illegal immigrants not to turn themselves in to the federal government in the hopes of benefiting from the Obama administration’s plan to dismiss certain deportation cases. “We were getting a lot of reports of people thinking that a new amnesty had just been declared,” Crystal Williams, the president of the American Immigration
Continue reading …Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City ordered the mandatory evacuation of around 250,000 residents as ordinarily jaded New York City residents threw themselves into a frenzy of preparation for Hurricane Irene. The National Weather Service issued a hurricane watch for the city and much of the surrounding region, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a
Continue reading …As Hurricane Irene makes it way toward North Carolina, where it’s expected to make landfall early Saturday morning, video footage of the storm is beginning to surface. The storm weakened to a Category 2 as it reached Florida’s waters, the Associated Press reported, but it could pick up steam again. The video below appears to
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