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...Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis...
Will this change in behavior last? Or will we return to our wastrel ways as we climb out of recession and the reality again sinks in that gas is cheap? The one sure way to prevent this second scenario from happening is not to let gas get cheap again. Yes, this is yet another plea for that hoary notion: a big energy tax. Just five months ago, we were essentially paying a tax of $95 per bbl. That's the difference between what oil cost then and what it costs now. This was a "tax" whereby the revenue went into...
...based on performance, plus losing a year of tenure, and a standard smaller raise on an annual basis exposes the core issue regarding our failed public-school system. The vast majority of public-school teachers (as represented by their union) are willing to accept below-proficiency pay in return for job security because they are painfully aware of their collective ineptitude. When tenure is eliminated and teachers can make up to $130,000 per year for extraordinary performance, educators like me may be encouraged to (re)join public service. Until that time, those of us who have "unreasonably" high expectations...
TWILIGHT director won't return for sequel. But really, does it matter who directs this thing...
...debate.” From May to July, Long and her collaborators travelled the entire border in a 1987 Vanagon to shoot the films. One of their clips tells the story of Jose Rivera, an 18-year-old born in Mexico and raised in Tempe, Arizona, who had to return to Mexico this year because he had no social security number or photo ID. “I never really felt I was illegal,” Rivera says in the video. “I felt I was just another teenage American because that?...