Evidently there is a huge difference in Medicare spending depending on your local hospital region. From the Kaiser Family Foundation: “Adjusting for inflation, the analysis found that Medicare spending in Miami rose 5% annually between 1992 and 2006, compared with 2.4% annually in San Francisco. The analysis also found that Medicare spent about $16,000 per [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Medicare Spending Can Be Reduced – San Francisco Has Already Done It
Posted in Delaware, Economy, Kent County, Medicaid/Health Care, National, New Castle County on February 27, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Eminent Domain
Posted in Eminent Domain on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Harry Themal’s editorial in the Monday News Journal and conversations with a couple of media types brought this issue back to mind. If it is possible to use eminent domain to take a property from one citizen for the benefit of another, do you really own it? When you buy real property, what you are [...]
Voting Rights for DC
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Who knows if it’ll actually pass this time, but it seems like the support is growing, enough so to finally give voting rights to DC. The bill passed with 61 votes in the Senate. If it passes the House, the legislation would give DC full voting rights to for the House of Representatives. Additionally, the [...]
Reason.tv Salutes Joe Biden, Real Man of Genius
Posted in Delaware, National on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From the inbox – produced by Drew Carey’s reason.tv:
Lavelle & Peterson – General Assembly should end practice of automatic raises
Posted in Delaware, Economy on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From today’s News Journal: DELAWARE VOICE • By GREG LAVELLE and KAREN PETERSON • February 26, 2009 Twenty-five years ago, Delaware created a mechanism allowing state lawmakers, judges and other top officials to get raises without any action by the General Assembly. We believe it’s time to reform this questionable practice. To that end, we [...]
Food Bank of Delaware joins with Delaware Community Foundation
Posted in Delaware on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is no surprise that I am often skeptical of government’s ability to get things done. There are often other options that are much more effective, but government can be the mechanism to accumulate the necessary funds and direct them to effective non-governmental agencies. We have an opportunity to make this happen with hunger assistance in [...]
Sun not shining on First Solar. Why not?
Posted in Economy, Energy, National, President Obama on February 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »
First Solar, Inc., (FSLR: NASDAQ) had a double great day, yesterday. First, it announced that it had “reduced its manufacturing cost for solar modules in the fourth quarter to 98 cents per watt, breaking the $1 per watt price barrier.” “This achievement marks a milestone in the solar industry’s evolution toward providing truly sustainable energy solutions,” said Mike Ahearn, First Solar chief executive [...]
Obama’s Speech
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Following the seech last night, CNN commentator David Gergen described the President’s speech as summoning FDR’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Gergen very much liked the speech and said he has never seen a president combine the two spirits into one masterful performance. Personally, I thought the speech itself was good, even if [...]
Registering your opponent’s domain name?
Posted in Delaware, Elections on February 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
What do you think about buying the .org or .net version of your opponent’s domain? Does it actually help or does it make you look like some sort of scammer? I know there was some of this going on during the Copeland/Denn race and it ended up being a cute little exchange (with love notes) in the News [...]
What’s wrong with Business Reporting in the Press?
Posted in Economy, Energy, National on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From today’s News Journal comes the following headline: Gasoline Prices fall, but demand stays low. The article is actually a feed from the LA Times. Can you figure out what’s wrong with this headline? If you need help, click here.
