New Orleans The Obama Administration is in the drafting stages of a proposal to link federal student financial aid to key accountability and affordability standards for higher educational institutions. By 2015, the proposal would rate institutions by measures including tuition costs, graduation rates, debt load and earnings of graduates, and, thankfully, even the percentage of …
Month: August 2013
Bloomberg News: ACORN was Target of IRS
New Orleans The headline in the New Orleans Times-Picayune read, “ACORN, based in N.O., was a target of IRS,” so it caught my eye. The story to no surprise concerned revelations of recently available unedited documents from the IRS released by Congressman Elijah Cummings from Maryland and others that ACORN and its successor organizations were …
New Banking Regulations, Who Needs ‘Em?
New Orleans Someone having folks over to the White House for cokes and coffee with the President doesn’t seem like much of a visit to the woodshed, but, hey, I guess a fella has to do something to be heard and heeded by his appointees even if he is the boss and the President of …