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Virginia leaders hope a new program will help alleviate Gridlock on the commonwealth's roadways. ... Source: www.ajc.com --- 1 day ago
The Downtown Connector is scheduled to fall under the knife again this weekend, and drivers there will feel the pain. ... Source: www.streetinsider.com --- 1 day ago
Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Contributors/When+Gridlock+is+Good%3A+Why+a+Contentious+Election+and+Legislative+Bottlenecks+Pack+a+Profit+Punch+for+Investors/3845235.html for the full story. ... Source: overlawyered.com --- 9 hours ago
Readers know I’m sympathetic to the idea of patent reform, but I have to agree with Derek Lowe’s skepticism as he tears a hole in the Michael Heller story told to the WSJ Law Blog about an alleged Alzheimer’s drug that will “earn billions” but can’t be tested because of patent Gridlock. A must read [...] ... Source: www.vvdailypress.com --- 13 hours ago
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dozens of cargo ships, petrochemical tankers and smaller vessels stacked up Thursday near a closed stretch of the Mississippi River, a day after a collision between a barge and tanker spilled more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the nation’s busy shipping waterway. ... Source: www.independent.ie --- 17 hours ago
The Oireachtas Transport Committee and Transport Minister can huff and puff as much as they want about Dublin Bus/Bus Eireann business "practices" when competition comes along, but at the end of the day it's the Department of Transport's own mandarins who are responsible for transport chaos in Dublin. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 12 hours ago
Fire engulfed an Alki Beach waterfront-view house Thursday night, causing traffic Gridlock for more than an hour as hundreds of people were starting to leave the beach after sunset. ... Source: nymag.com --- 3 hours ago
REAL ESTATE •Three architecture firms submitted designs for the on-again, off-again office-tower project being envisioned for above the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Should plans move forward, construction may begin in 2010. But don't worry, rent has already been set at $265 per square foot. [ NYT ] • There were 234 foreclosure filings in Manhattan during the second quarter, 796 on Staten Island, and 677 in the Bronx. [ http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/07/24/2008-07-24_high_rise_in_risk_of_foreclosure_for_new.html">NYDN ] • Park Slope's Seventh Avenue Tea Lounge has forever shuttered its doors. Where will stroller Gridlock move to now? [ http://curbed.com/archives/2008/07/25/slope_strollers_in_chaos_as_tea_lounge_closes.php">Curbed ] FINANCE • Washington Mutual's stocks have plummeted over the last two days, after a Gimme Credit analyst suggested that creditors have been pulling funds from the bank. This assessment didn't thrill WaMu's treasurer, Robert Williams. He said the researcher's report reflects a "failure to understand basic balance sheet management." [ http://www.nypost.com/seven/07252008/business/wamu_whacked_121470.htm">NYP ] •Who should police Wall Street banks, the Fed or the SEC.? Stay tuned as government leaders duke it out in Washington, D.C, trying to decide. [ NYP ] • Blackstone is drooling over the toxic subprime market. [ DealBook/NYT ] MEDIA • Sirius and XM Radio are officially married. The government ap ...
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Private ownership can create wealth, but too much of it can bog down the economy. Host Kai Ryssdal asks Columbia law professor Michael Heller about the problems with the current property rights system. ... Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 3 days ago
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By Keith Fitz-Gerald For all their talk about change, the ultimate irony in today’s markets is that Washington is so afflicted with legislative Gridlock that the “Beltway Boys” couldn’t “change” the channel on their flat-screen televisions. And yet, as frustrating as legislative Gridlock is for many voters (myself included), the data suggests [...] ... Source: www.topix.com --- 23 hours ago
The Good: A fascinating look at how Gridlock can result when too many people own pieces of one thing. ... Source: www.topix.com --- 17 hours ago
Commuters endured rush-hour Gridlock Thursday morning and afternoon after Caltrans shut down the northbound Pasadena Freeway near Fair Oaks Avenue to repair a massive sinkhole caused by a ruptured drainage ... ... Source: www.topix.com --- 10 hours ago
It's a fast and fashionable way for Jakartans to beat the city's chronic Gridlock: a limousine on two wheels. ... Source: www.commuterpage.com --- 15 minutes ago
Some tips on weekend travel and upcoming traffic and transit issues: -- By Dr. Gridlock, July 25, 2008, Washington Post ... Source: www.commuterpage.com --- 15 minutes ago
Paul J. Wiedefeld, head of the Maryland Transit Administration, today outlined steps being taken to improve the MARC trains' performance. It's been a difficult summer for the Maryland commuter railroad, despite increasing ridership. -- By Dr. Gridlock, July 23, 2008, Washington Post ... Source: draconem.vox.com --- 2 hours ago
This country cannot afford another 4-8 years of economic mediocrity. McCain's current platform clearly shows he abandoned his more sensible liberal positions of the past for the republican party line on taxes, economics, and military spending. Democratic presidents preside over stronger economic growth, including but not limited to higher growth in GDP, employment, the stock market, corporate profits and compensation. Obama will be no different in that sense as he will generate billions in additional tax revenue while cutting taxes more than McCain for over 80% of families (with AGI over $10k/py). [ Tax Policy Center ] This puts tax cuts where they have the most effect, in the hands of those with a higher marginal propensity to consume and higher overall marginal utility per tax dollar saved. [ Presidential Economics ] [ Adler & Lebang ] The downside to economic growth is obviously the rising inflation and interest. However, the solution to reducing inflation and interest seems to be Gridlock, not a Republican president. What this country needs right now is a strong economic expansion which is more likely to come from Obama, and if interest rates and inflation rise too high, we'll need Gridlock, but that should be in the form of a Republican congress and democratic president. For example, look no further than the after tax income distributions of the candidates tax plans, which were debated in detail at todays Tax Policy Center betwee ... Find more results for Gridlock on RSSMicro.com |
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by Paul Kiel - Earlier this month, we reported that the Voice of America (VOA) was planning to cut seven radio language services. The cuts came partly as a result of the administration's emphasis on broadcasting to the Muslim world. ProPublica has published two reports on turmoil and waste at Alhurra, the U.S. government-funded Arabic television news channel. Now the Senate panel that oversees its funding has recommended reinstating funding for the affected services -- though the move seems unlikely to prevent the cuts. (Gridlock in Congress has delayed action on most, if not all, spending bills for 2009 until the next administration.) The committee also suggests trimming $8.4 million from the administration's $112.4 million budget request for the Middle East Broadcast Networks, the parent company to Alhurra. The cuts are planned to take effect September 30 th . David Carle, a spokesman for Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that oversees funding for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, said that "the committee does not support zeroing out these programs," but that its spending bill "will not become law for some time yet." The committee specifically raised concern about VOA's plans to cut its radio and TV services to Russia, "where freedom of speech remains restricted and broadcasting is still necessary." The VOA also plans to cut radio broadcasts in Ukrainian, Serbian, Hindi, Macedonian, B ...
Senator John Warner (R-VA) recently suggested that the nation reexamine a 55-mph national speed limit. Supposedly, this measure would save 167,000 barrels of gasoline a day -- 2% of America's daily usage -- and even diminish traffic deaths by 4,000 per year. It will also help maintain our nation's highways, abate global climate change, and quite possibly, win us the War in Iraq and the one in Vietnam retroactively. Warner's enthusiasm comes from a Department of Energy study claiming that automobile fuel efficiency diminishes every 5 mph past 60. Like many people born in 1927, Senator Warner remembers the 1974 National Maximum Speed Law, as well as when ice cream used to cost only a nickel. Originally set at 55 mph, the national limit was raised in 1987 and repealed altogether in 1995. This is a solution that would only exacerbate the problem. The modern highway system depends on cars moving at variable speeds, individually fit to the variable demands placed on each stretch of road by the flow of traffic. In other words, slower traffic means more Gridlock and more time on the road, which means burning more gas, at a slower speed indeed. And every car engine works differently -- 55 is not some magic number. The most efficient speed of a Prius is different than a Ford pick-up's. Or maybe it's even more efficient for the pick-up to be carrying the Prius; let's mandate that. If Senator Warner's limit were properly enforced, the fender ...