Saunders: The Absent-minded Secretary
Townhall - by Debra Saunders - In September 2009, Chu approved the Solyndra loan. He clearly missed the Office of Management and Budget staff's recommendation that the deal be "notched down" in light of "the weakening world market prices for solar generally." When he showed up at Solyndra's groundbreaking, Chu announced, "If you build a better solar panel, the world will beat a path to your door." As Rick Perry would say, "oops." In March 2010, PricewaterhouseCoopers warned that Solyndra's recurring losses and negative cash flows raised "substantial doubt about (its) ability to continue as a going concern." And still, Chu was a booster.
In May 2010, Obama appeared at a Solyndra event, chatting up Chu's Nobel history and proclaiming, "The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra." A month later, Solyndra canceled a planned $300 million public offering. This might be a good place to mention that shortly after winning its first loan guarantee, Solyndra applied for a second, this one for $400 million. To its credit, the administration did not approve the loan. By October, CEO Brian Harrison had informed the Energy Department that the company was about to lay off workers. According to an email from Kaiser's investment fund, "the DOE ... requested a delay until after the election (without mentioning the election)." Read full column here: News New Mexico
Government Dependency an Epidemic in NM
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9 Drunk Driving Convictions?.....Back on Streets
Assistant District Attorney Jason Lidyard said there were "evidentiary issues and witness unavailability" at the time LeFebre was scheduled to go to trial Thursday. Prosecutors offered a plea agreement to LeFebre that would guarantee a felony conviction without risking acquittal by a jury. "We approved this plea," District Attorney Angela "Spence" Pacheco said Thursday. "This is a plea that has him pleading guilty to a felony in a case that definitely had a lot of questions. This guarantees he has another provable conviction for down the road if it ever should come up that he's caught driving drunk again." Read full story here: News New Mexico
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Research Suggests Coffee May Be Good For You
From KOAT-TV.com - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- KOAT medical expert Dr. Barry Ramo said new research suggests coffee may be good for a person's health. Previous studies have shown that regular coffee drinkers have less diabetes, Ramo said. Last month, researchers from the 51,000 Women Nurses' Health Study found that more coffee women consume, the less likely they were to be depressed. Now, Ramo said a report found that Basal Cell cancer is 20 percent less frequent it those who consumed more than three cups of coffee each day. Ramo said the health benefits for men were less impressive. Decaffeinated coffee had no effect either way, according to Ramo. Read more
Now is the best time ever for young workers
From NM Politics.net - by Michael Swickard, Ph.D. - At a fast food style restaurant, I had a nodding relationship with the young fellow behind the counter. We would each say, “Howdy.” Last week he ventured an observation, “You sure were lucky to be young when it was still possible to become wealthy.” He said it like, “Nice weather… how about those Aggies… whatcha want?” I was startled by the notion that I grew up in a better time. Truth is, I only went to school because I was physically placed on a school bus with instructions to not hit anyone. For the record, I only hit back, but the second kid is usually the one caught, so I was typecast. I was also typecast as a kid who could not wait to get away from school. This they got right. I was born in 1950, and this fellow behind the counter was born in 1990. Without a doubt they were different societies. In school I practiced the “Atomic bomb attack drill,” while he has to worry about getting a bad case of “Texting thumb.” Read more
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