Here’s one to add to the grifter file: Greater Works Charter School will no longer open in Rochester in 2015, part of the continuing fallout over lies in the resume of its 22-year-old founder. Ted Morris Jr. represented himself to the New York State Education Department as a precocious businessman and educational advisor with bachelor’s, …
Grifters Gonna Grift
Healthy Pennsylvania in Utah?
One of the big delays in the negoatiation between Pennsylvania and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Healthy PA Medicaid expansion was the initial request by Pennsylvania to tie Medicaid eligibility to work or work-search requirements. HHS held firm and said that Medicaid eligiblity can only be tied to income or …
And the Grift Goes On
Sad, but not surprising: In February 2013, Move America Forward announced an ambitious fundraising goal. The charity, launched in part by one of the most prominent figures in the Tea Party movement, had adopted the 800 Marines in a battalion fighting in Afghanistan and wanted to send them all care packages. “For some troops, these …
Come Back You Coward, I’ll Bite Your Legs Off
Teahadist Chris McDaniel ain’t going down without a fight: Chris McDaniel, the Tea Party-backed U.S. Senate candidate who lost the Mississippi Republican primary runoff, filed a legal challenge to the result on Monday, alleging that he fell short in the June 24 vote because of election fraud. McDaniel submitted a 28-page legal challenge and supporting …
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CongressClowns Voting Tonight
Looks like the Do-Nothings will take a vote on immigration reform before they flee DC, according to TPM: The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on Friday night on two bills, first on the GOP’s border supplemental and then on their proposal to end the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Vote schedules …
Open Thread: “No Labels? No Results? No Problem”
Remember the “political and media A-listers” of lobbyist self-promotion group No Labels?: Republicans and ex-Clintonistas, spanning the political gamut from far-right to center-right! Hey, no point bothering with ‘unserious’, non-Right points of view, if your whole purpose is to encourage that all-American chimera known as “Centrism”. McKinnon & Mark Penn, together again — and if …
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System success and people with options
Jane Jacobs is my second favorite economist or economics writer (Herb Simon is #1). In her thoughts on how an urban neighborhood unslums itself, she has a core insight. Unslumming is the process of people who have the option to leave a neighborhood, deciding to stay instead. This leads to local maitenance investment, it leads to social …