Yesterday’s Hannibal Courier-Post had a story about the recent MoDOT Board of Commissioners meeting in Shelbina. (Hat tip to Combest.) The central point of the story is the general agreement that future major road projects will more likely occur in areas that are willing to supplement state money with local money, through the use of a [...]
The Good:
Eighty-six percent of doctors say they now regularly use the Internet on the job. Of that group, the majority start at Google, which they use as a springboard to look for general information about diseases and drugs.
The Bad:
In a 2006 study published in the British Medical Journal, researchers had physicians read the histories of [...]
ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, today released their latest Report Card on American Education.
The annual report looks at both student performance and inputs into the education system, evaluating what works and what doesn’t. The r…
It is September. Back in January the working plan was to try Mark Carver and Neal Cassada for the May 5th, 2008 murder of UNCC student Ira Yarmolenko in July.
What is the deal?
The MCAS is different from most other state tests. It is a high-stakes test for all students; its being a graduation requirement underscored the seriousness of purpose, and its being for all students meant that we would not allow a good system for some and a less good system for others. After all, [...]
Nearly three decades of war and religious extremism have devastated medical libraries and crippled the educational system for doctors, nurses and other health professionals. Factions of the Taliban, which ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, singled out medical texts for destruction, military medical personnel say, because anatomical depictions of the human body were considered blasphemous.
“They [...]
Here's another great observation from Thomas Sowell's latest book, Dismantling America:
Economics and politics deal with the same fundamental problem: What everyone wants always adds up to more…
Unemployment rate rises, in sign of weak growth — The Washington Post
August jobs report: Signs of life for employment — CNNMoney
I don’t see Joe Killian’s article on the N&R’s Web site, but he writes up Guilford County’s proposed quarter-cent sales tax hike on the November ballot.
Commission chair Skip Alston warns citizens of the inevitable:
Alston said some sort of property tax increase may be inevitable. Even if the quarter-cent sales tax increase is approved, it [...]
The Democrat-aligned Public Policy Polling finds that Republicans enjoy a 49-41 percent advantage on a generic state ballot.
Civitas poll: Incumbent Democratic Sen. A.B. Swindell of Nash County