Is the U.S. on the Verge of a Historic Innovation Boom?
Posted: May 12, 2017 Filed under: Economics, Mediasphere, Science & Technology, Think Tank, U.S. News | Tags: Economic Boom, Innovation, media, video Leave a comment
The Innovation 15: Our Most Science and Tech-Friendly Members of Congress
Posted: November 4, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: 113th Congress, Innovation, Lawmakers, Popular Mechanics, Research, Senate, technology 1 Comment
The Innovation 15: Our Most Science- and Tech-Friendly Members of Congress
So maybe things aren’t that great. The 113th Congress of the United States is on track to enact just 251 laws in its two-year session, the least productive Congress since 1973. If a bill attempts to do anything more than rename a post office, it’s likely to languish in committee, ignored, while lawmakers sling partisan dung over budgets and borders. Not a great environment for innovation-minded legislation trying to become law. But it’s midterm- election time in America, and 33 Senate seats and every seat in the House of Representatives are up for grabs. Read the rest of this entry »
Market innovation, not government regulations, are the key to keeping college costs down
Posted: August 26, 2013 Filed under: Economics, Mediasphere | Tags: Arizona State, Complete College America, Conn Carroll, Education, George Mason University, Higher Education, Innovation, Ivy Bridge, Obama, Reform, Regulations, Student Loans, Tiffin University, Universities, Washington Examiner Leave a comment
Higher-education reformers shouldn’t have to rely on the government to experiment with new methods. (Thinkstock)
BY CONN CARROLL
“Over the last month,” President Obama said in Buffalo, N.Y., on Thursday, “I’ve been out there talking about what we need to do as a country to make sure that we’ve to a better bargain for the middle class and everybody who’s working hard to get into the middle class.”
Stella, the second youngest of five brothers, was raised in a single parent home in Roanoke, Alabama. He was the only one of his siblings to finish high school, although he has since encouraged all of his siblings to go back and get their G.E.D.s.
Now living in Warren, Ohio, with a son of his own, Stella wanted to improve his own life and his son’s opportunities. But as a single parent with a full-time job, his options were limited.
pundit from another planet 