Being .8 short in sports can be the difference between winning and losing, and .8 can make a big difference on your student loans as well. On July 1, 2008, the interest rate on subsidized federal student loans dropped from 6.8% to 6%. This .8% cut, when combined with the interest rate cuts being made over the next 3 years, will save an average of $2570 for borrowers starting school in 2008.
My church has a saying (that I’m sure we did not originate), “Pray like it depends on God, and work like it depends on you.” I think it’s a pretty good saying. God is in control, and prayer is the most important thing we can do when faced with a difficult situation. However, God uses [...]
Dr. King was an amazing man, but I think that we often trivialize his message and flatten his character. We remember one line from one speech: “I have a dream.” Do we even remember what his dream was? We know it was something about equality, but do we remember what he actually said? [...]
With 78% of precincts reporting, Barack Obama leads Hillary Clinton 59-40. I think it’s safe to say that Barack Obama has won the Wyoming caucuses.
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Just a quick note to say that Facebook has changed their political description field from one of ideology (liberal, moderate, conservative) to one of party (Democrat, Republican, Green, et cetera). As a Democrat, this doesn’t matter much to me, but there are those who aren’t very happy with the current parties and would rather [...]
Or at least those willing do some research. Brian Stelter of the New York Times is something of a phenom when it comes to news about the TV industry, having started the influential blog tvnewser.com and subsequently being hired by the New York Times straight out of college, but his article on the “It’s [...]
I just wanted to do a quick review of eDemocracyCamp, the BarCamp conference that I attended earlier today. For those of you who aren’t familiar with BarCamp conferences, they are user-driven issue conferences, usually focused around Web 2.0, new media, open source software, et cetera. In other words, people volunteer to organize the [...]
Presenter: Joe Goldman
I’ve got a more cohesive review here.
What would it look like to have a national discussion with 1,000,000+ people involved? – Did a pilot in 2003 & 2004
Need to engage enough people that people would take notice
Need to do it in enough places that Congresspeople would think their constituents were represented
You need to [...]
Presenters: Rob Pierson & Will Johnston
I’ve got a more cohesive review here.
Topic Code for e-mail
Help Congressional offices deal with increasing volumes of e-mail
Provide a unique identifier for each new mass mail campaign
Would allow offices to aggregate all letters from a specific organization on a specific topic AND view how constituents have customized a form letter [...]
