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June 28, 2012

Court decision may not disrupt implementation - High political stakes for SCOTUS ruling - ACA advocates on tenterhooks - Senate GOP won't party if law is tossed

http://www.politico.com/politicopulse/0612/politicopulse775.html IT’S HERE – Today is THE day. No more waiting, no more “what ifs?” to ponder. Two years, three months and five days after the first lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act were filed — the same day it became law...

Obama’s 2013 Education Budget and Blueprint: A Costly Expansion of Federal Control

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/04/obamas-2013-education-budget-and-blueprint-a-costly-expansion-of-fed “Budgets are about choices.” Such was President Barack Obama’s message during a recent speech to the National Governors Association. President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2013 budget request and supplemental education spending proposals make the Administration’s own choice perfectly clear: Continue to...
April 4, 2012

Viewpoints: Obama's 'Diatribe' On Ryan Budget; President 'Recovers' On Statements About The Court; Other Health Care Mandates

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2012/April/04/wed-opinions.aspx The Wall Street Journal: Paul Ryan’s Hunger Games If there’s a Laffer Curve for Presidential invective—some point at which dishonest political abuse yields diminishing returns—the White House political team must not think their boss has hit it. Even in this hyperpartisan...
February 9, 2012

U.S. gives Mass. waiver from No Child Left Behind

http://www.wickedlocal.com/fall-river/news/x2112939403/U-S-gives-Mass-waiver-from-No-Child-Left-Behind#axzz2NReSO0VO President Barack Obama’s decision to free Massachusetts from some  requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law was a vote of confidence  for a system the state designed to assess the performance of public schools, top  state education officials said...
September 14, 2011

Patrick Admin's Misdiagnosis on ACA Transparency

This post was co-written by Michael Morisy. During this year’s budget debate, Pioneer asked many questions about the reality behind optimistic health care cost predictions which, if flawed, could leave the state facing a $900 million budget hole next year alone. The...