Read and comment on blog entries about the election written by NBR staffers, including Washington Bureau Chief Darren Gersh.

Obama and Business Taxes

posted by Darren Gersh, Washington Bureau Chief on August 28, 2008

This is a big night for Barack Obama and the nation. It's the 45th anniversary of Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech. This is certainly a night to consider how far American has come on race relations and how far it has to go. War and peace are on the table. The sorry state of our financial... + More

Texting Towards the Future

posted by Darren Gersh, Washington Bureau Chief on August 22, 2008

When I first got into journalism, people who gathered facts and wrote about them were called reporters. Now we are increasingly called "filters." You know, people who get in the way of a message. Fortunately for politicians and companies, powerful new tools exist to bypass filters and... + More

Media Money and Power

posted by Darren Gersh, Washington Bureau Chief on June 24, 2008

Follow the money is a good rule in policing, politics and journalism. So let's see where the ad money is going this election. To begin with, check out this table from Benchmark media analyst Edward Atorino. The take away here is that broadcasting is still the most powerful way politicians reach... + More

The Hole in the McCain and Obama Tax Plans

posted by Darren Gersh, Washington Bureau Chief on June 11, 2008

Len Burman and his staff at the Tax Policy Center have performed a valuable service by crunching the numbers in the McCain and Obama tax plans. The results are disturbing: McCain proposes to increase the deficit by more than $4.5 trillion... + More

Presidential Business

posted by Scott Gurvey, New York Bureau Bureau Chief on June 4, 2008

Just about everyone except Hillary Clinton has agreed that Barack Obama will be the nominee of the Democratic Party for President. And so with presumptive nominee Obama joining the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain, let the games begin... + More

Carly Fiorina on McCain and H-1b Visas and HP/EDS

posted by Darren Gersh, Washington Bureau Chief on May 16, 2008

Here are a couple questions I put to Carly Fiorina, a top adviser to the McCain Campaign, which I did not have room to put on the air: Would the former CEO of HP press John McCain to ramp up the number of H-1b visas the government offers... + More

Climate Change and the Price of Carbon

posted by Darren Gersh, Washington Bureau Chief on April 15, 2008

A trip to Pittsburgh has convinced me that the Carbon Economy is real. he defining feature of this economy is that manufacturers, indeed any business, will soon be paying for carbon. Want to make steel, electricity or cars? Companies will... + More

Youngstown vs. Bangalore?

posted by Darrem Gersh, Washington Bureau Chief on March 3, 2008

When you think of Youngstown, Ohio, Jim Cossler wants you to think software, not steel. As Chief Evangelist for the Youngstown Business Incubator, Cossler has faith this manufacturing town can compete with Bangalore and Silicon Valley and, in the process... + More