Opinion - Washington Post - 2010-03-14 04:22:20.
Salesman in chief
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PRESIDENT OBAMA wants to double U.S. exports between now and 2015, and it's a worthy goal. It won't be easy: Exports fell from $1.8 trillion in 2008 to $1.5 trillion in 2009, due to the global recession. But, as the president suggested in a speech Thursday, a big boost in sales of U.S. goods and services abroad would support 2 million American jobs. And some of his ideas could help that happen: an additional $2 billion in Export-Import Bank credit; streamlining the review process for sensitive technology exports; high-level support from the President's Export Council.
Opinion - Washington Post - 2010-03-14 04:22:20.
Better student loans
IF ALL GOES according to plan, Democrats in Congress will attempt to pass two major, long-sought reforms at once in the coming weeks -- of health care and student loans -- using the controversial reconciliation maneuver in the Senate. Some have characterized the move to add education to the health bill as a sneaky attempt to ram through one more "government takeover." That's unfair.
Opinion - Washington Post.
Please, don't make us cheat!
LAST SUMMER it was reported that Montgomery County public safety officers -- more than 200 police officers, sheriff's deputies and others -- had taken taxpayer-funded courses that, upon scrutiny, looked very fishy. These courses, ostensibly offering firearms training, were in fact scams that traded hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers' money for cut-rate weapons for the officers to use recreationally or resell as they saw fit.
Opinion - Houston Chronicle.
School for all: How do you build peaceful, thriving nations? Build schools
Education builds peace. That's what Julie Bolz told us on a recent visit to Houston, and she should know.
Opinion - Houston Chronicle.
Greek trauma: European Union appears admirably determined to contain debt trouble
In recent weeks, all eyes in global financial circles have been on … Greece. Yes, Greece.
Opinion - Washington Post.
How General Motors got rolled by its own dealers
IT'S OFFICIAL: Auto dealers have defeated General Motors. In the bankruptcy settlement that paved the way for tens of billions of dollars in federal aid, GM got the authority to trim its network of 6,000 dealers by about a third. Though necessary to GM's competitiveness, the move infuriated the dealers who were slated for closure. They went to Congress for protection and got it, in the form of a law that gave every dealer the right to take GM to arbitration. Some 1,160 dealers exercised that right, and on March 5 GM said that, rather than fight them all -- at enormous cost in time and money -- it will reinstate 661.
