President-Elect Obama began to sketch his economic recovery plan in his weekly address yesterday. It’s long on spending but short on price tag.
The items he features in the talk include energy, roads and bridges, schools, broadband, and electronic medical records.
Of the items on the list, the energy idea seems to hold the most promise. [...]
“I want to see a stimulus package sooner rather than later. If it does not get done in the lame duck session, it will be the first thing I get done as President of the United States.”
So said President-Elect Barack Obama at his first press conference this past week.
Will subsidies for broadband be part [...]
This time it’s not a politician to blame for making exaggerated claims. It’s one of these coalitions that spring up when a certain set of people want a certain set of goodies from the government.
The Coalition for Free Broadband Now wants the Federal Communications Commission to auction of some of the electromagnetic spectrum [...]