Sep 08 Gov 2.0 | Pillbox Hopes to Create Cure for Disparate Drug Data By Hari Sreenivasan If you've ever found an unconscious loved one with nothing more but a nearby pill and a glass of water as clues, you would certainly want a service that could help you quickly and easily identify what drug might have… Continue reading
Sep 08 Geithner: Past Policy Choices, Politics Making It Harder to Fix U.S. Economy By News Desk In a newsmaker interview with Jim Lehrer, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday afternoon that economic policy decisions made before this administration took office -- and the current political climate -- are teaming up to make it harder to fix… Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch Obama Pitches $300B in Business Tax Incentives to Boost Economy President Obama on Wednesday proposed a $300 billion tax cut plan aimed at businesses to help the U.S. economy recover and create new jobs. Kwame Holman reports on the details of the tax incentives and the president's proposed path to… Continue watching
Sep 08 Obama Proposes Tax Incentives, Says GOP Is Delaying Economic Progress By Quinn Bowman President Obama challenged Congressional Republicans during a speech on the economy at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland Wednesday, saying the opposition party is obstructing good economic policy for political gain, while supporting policies that contributed to the recent recession. Continue reading
Sep 08 Carl Malamud: Internet Has Yet to Revolutionize Legal Industry By Hari Sreenivasan Carl Malamud has been fighting for transparency issues since before most of us started using 28k modems, since before there was a movement and conferences devoted to Gov2.0 principles. His most recent focus is Law.gov, a project… Continue reading
Sep 08 RGA Chair Barbour: Democrats Will Flee Obama This Fall Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Wednesday that Democrats are running from President Obama "like scalded* dogs," worried that his sagging poll numbers might bring down their campaigns this election year. "If you look at when he goes somewhere,… Continue reading
Sep 08 Health Reform Debate Returns to the Airwaves as Midterms Draw Closer Two months before the midterm elections, there's a bit of deja-vu in the air: a new round of ads are running on health care reform. On Wednesday, former New York Gov. George Pataki, a Republican, held a news conference… Continue reading
Sep 08 8 Key Failures Led to Gulf Oil Spill, BP Report Says By Jenny Marder In its long-awaited internal report on this summer's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP blamed contractors Halliburton and Transocean for many of the problems leading up to the country's worst-ever oil spill -- igniting anger from the companies blamed. No… Continue reading
Sep 08 Do Poll Numbers Portend a 'Wave' Year for Republicans? GOP pollster Glen Bolger told The Hill newspaper Tuesday, "It's a wave year (for the Republicans.) The question is, 'How high is the wave?'" For some context, here are the polling numbers that Political Editor David Chalian discussed… Continue reading
Sep 08 Gov2.0: D.C. Helps Other Governments Learn to Open Up By Chris Amico Among Gov2.0 advocates, Washington, D.C., is one of the major cities to watch for its efforts to provide open data to citizens and software developers as part of its civic services. It was one of the first cities… Continue reading