Posted in Politics on Nov 15th, 2008
President Obama’s first serious test is whether he is going to require coal plants to include equipment to capture and sock away carbon emissions underground.
About 25 coal plants are under construction across the United States, more than in the past two decades. Another 20 projects have been permitted or are near construction and more than [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 10th, 2008
By far my biggest disappointment with Obama’s election is that there is no discernable bump to the economy or the attitude of the stock market. While the press gushed over the new President-elect, we laid a few more people off. There seems to be a real disconnect in the media between the excitement of the [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 7th, 2008
I looked at the The New York Times map of the 2008 election results and saw something interesting for Ohio. President-Elect Obama won the four of the most populous counties by a significantly large percentage when compared to the rest of the state. Whereas the voting percentages for most of the counties hovered around 50%, [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 6th, 2008
Way too funny!
HEH: Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job. "African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 30th, 2008
Since Mr. Obama expects to achieve significant revenue by taxing people earning over $250,000 I started to think about the tax returns for these people in 2008 and 2009. Considering how far the stock market has dropped I suspect that there will be a lot of high income people who will be reporting significantly lower [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 30th, 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that counties must allow homeless voters to list park benches and other locations that aren’t buildings as their addresses.
U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus also ruled that provisional ballots can’t be invalidated because of poll worker errors.
Monday’s ruling resolved the final two pieces of [...]
Posted in Housing Issues, Politics on Oct 12th, 2008
Dear David,
I know you intended to praise Mr. Obama in this article when you say that the characteristic you are most impressed with is his intellect but your logic does not work for me. I do not have a problem if this characteristic inspires you but it gives me an icky feeling. It gives me [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 9th, 2008
From the Tax Prof blog we get this post. Read it and weep! I expected that California, New York, and New Jersey would be leading the laggards list but Ohio’s position is a crying shame. I told my boss about this article and he called his real estate broker to ask about the availability of [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 27th, 2008
I am extremely uncomfortable with the bailout when hardly a word is spoken about how we are going to avoid repeating this mistake. So far the only mortgage reform I have seen has been performed by the market. Securities based on sub-prime and Alt-A mortgages are practically worthless. Companies holding these securities cannot sell them [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 26th, 2008
From the CBO Director’s Blog we get this insightful analysis. He was attempting to clarify an article in the Washington Post about his testimony. This bill is pretty ambiguous to the average person. We know about how much this bill is going to cost and that it is going to pass quickly without a lot [...]
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