January 14, 2010
Comments Invited on Net Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission is inviting comments on support for or against Net Neutrality, which basically would ensure that federal policies act to preserve user freedom over the Internet. Information on the concept is here and here and here (scroll down to February 2007). It’s dry but important so take a moment to weigh in today (here via an interest group).
January 13, 2010
More on Haiti from the White House
Haiti Earthquake
Here are a few disaster relief sites (most seem to still be getting ramped up):
Care, https://my.care.org/site/Donation2?5000.donation=form1&df_id=5000
Miami Herald’s list, http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1421696.html.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
January 11, 2010
Health Care: State vs. National Insurance Exchanges
TNR’s Jonathan Cohn talks today about what’s likely to be a key point of negotiation between the House and Senate as the two bodies craft a final health care deal: a national insurance exchange, a provision in the House bill, or state-based exchanges, as the Senate wants. His post includes a chart by Wonkroom’s Igor Volsky that compares the two provisions, but here is a link to Volsky’s post as well.
Correction Affection
I got a kick out of this correction, published yesterday in the New York Times Week in Review (with all due respect to the deceased who are mentioned):
An article on Dec. 27 about the death of Edward M. Kennedy in August referred incorrectly to the assassination of his brother President John F. Kennedy, and a correction in this space last Sunday erroneously corrected the length of his tenure in the Senate. The president was assassinated in 1963, the year after Edward Kennedy was elected to the Senate — not the same year. And as the article correctly reported, Senator Kennedy served 46 years — not 47 as the correction said. (The correction also erred in stating that the length of tenure was incorrect in Mr. Kennedy’s obituary, in two other articles on Aug. 27 and Aug. 28 and in an editorial on Aug. 28. All four correctly reported the tenure as 46 years.)