May 28 Obama Tells Gulf Residents That "Buck Stops With Me" By Quinn Bowman _pap_embed_custom('news01s4013qebd',482,304,""); President Barack Obama said Friday that the U.S. government is doing everything it can to permanently stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and to mitigate the damage done to the local ecosystem and economy. In televised… Continue reading
May 28 Gov 2.0 Expo: Tim O'Reilly Talks Transparency, Facebook and Privacy Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media, but beyond that he is someone who is constantly thinking of the nexus between open and closed systems of information and how they interact. His company co-sponsored the recent… Continue reading
May 28 Sick Fishermen Spark Worries About Health Effects of Oil, Chemicals Reports of fisherman who had been hired to clean up oil in the Gulf of Mexico falling ill have raised concerns about the health effects of the stew of oil and chemicals in the area. On… Continue reading
May 27 Gov 2.0 Expo: Holovaty on Empowering Citizens With Neighborhood Data By Hari Sreenivasan The Rundown took the show on the road this week, visiting the Gov 2.0 Expo in downtown Washington, D.C., to get some perspectives on efforts to make government more transparent and useful for its citizens. Everyblock.com founder… Continue reading
May 27 Conversation: Jonathan Galassi, President of Book Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux By Molly Finnegan On Tuesday, a panel of publishers, book agents, authors and booksellers kicked off Book Expo America 2010 -- the major annual U.S. publishing convention and exposition held in New York each year -- by asking a fundamental, but newly challenging… Continue reading
May 27 The Ongoing Credit Crunch Paul Solman: Conservative economist Ed Yardeni, whom I cited earlier this week, wrote Thursday morning about an issue that we address on the NewsHour soon: the continued “credit crunch” — unavailability of bank loans — in our supposedly recovering… Continue reading
May 27 What Is the Next Sick Economy of Europe? Attention has shifted from the financial troubles in Greece to other troubled euro zone countries. Debt concerns in countries such as Spain, Italy, and Britain continue to jitter global markets, even as those countries consider new austerity measures to… Continue reading
May 27 Watch News Wrap: Manhunt for Drug Kingpin Continues in Jamaica In other news Thursday, at least 73 people have died in Jamaica during four days of gun battles between police and supporters of accused drug kingpin Christopher Coke and the president of Sudan was sworn in for another five-year term… Continue watching
May 26 What's Going on in Europe? Paul Solman: A departure from the usual Q-and-A format this morning to address an issue on the minds of many: what’s going on in Greece…and Europe? Conservative economist Ed Yardeni, whom we’ve consulted from time to time over the years,… Continue reading
May 26 Memo Suggests Warning Signs Were Ignored Ahead of Rig Explosion A House panel investigating the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico says that during the hours that led up to the rig explosion, there were a series of missed and ignored warning signs that… Continue reading