Little Rock Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, appeared via video-conference to an applauding audience in Austin at the South by South West conference among the Technorati to argue for better protection of privacy data. He was lobbying for improved encryption programs and reportedly Google, Yahoo and others are on the job already. Snowden’s hope, reportedly, …
Month: March 2014
More Fights for a Billionaire to Fund
Little Rock Several pages of the New York Times, starting at the front, were given to the “Oh, my!” story of billionaire investor William Ackerman and his Pershing Square outfits financing of contributions to various civil rights and nonprofits and an army of lobbyists to drive down the stock price of Herbalife, the direct sales …
Arkansas Health Care Battleground Focuses on Stopping Enrollment
Little Rock The so-called unique “private option” in Arkansas where a federal Affordable Care Act waiver allows federal money to purchase insurance from private companies for low-income families continues to be a year-by-year battleground. Importantly this program along with Medicaid expansion, both navigated by Democratic Governor Mike Beebe through a Republican legislature, has already allowed …