AND IT GOES ON AND ON, WATCHING THE (MESSY) RIVER RUN

November 6, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged "America Competes", "chairman rodgers", "Chairman rogers", "coal ash", "College Value", "competency based", "federal policy week", "FIRST ACT", "Fischer v. University", "fugitive methane", "house schedule", "indirect costs", "patent troll", "The Frontier in Innovative Research, "The Sun Also Rises", affirmative action, agriculture, and Technology", antiquities act, Aviation, Beloved, budget, Chairman Goodlatte, chamber of commerce, climate, coal, college ratings, committee, common core, COMPETES, courts, defense, democrat, denham, diesel, education, Einstein, energy, energy efficiency, environment, EPA, federal government programs, federal policy, fracking, Goodlatte, GOP, higher education act, humanities, immigration, innovation, interior, James Hansen, jewell, mikulski, mooc, nasa, NextGen, nominations, nuclear, nuclear power, obama, PATENTS, renewables, RFS, Rubio, science, scientific community, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hatch, sequestration, technology, Twilight, university, yucca | 2 Comments

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WATER, PATENTS, BUDGETS AND EDUCATION, OH MY

October 29, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, brain, budget, children, committee, darpa, defense, democrat, drilling, education, energy, EPA, FEDERAL AGENCIES, federal government programs, federal policy, genetics, government, immigration, judy blume, language gap, maya, nih, politics, polls, preschool, research, science, sequestration, spanking, tuition | 1 Comment

THE CONFERENCE BEGINS: REQUESTS MOUNT

October 21, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, budget, chimp, climate, committee, courts, credit, degree, democrat, economic research, education, energy, environment, EPA, federal government programs, federal policy, Florida, ged, high school, immigration, mooc, nclb, nuclear, obama, politics, Poverty, renewables, republican, research, science, shutdown, southern, sports, Texas, tuition, tutor | 1 Comment

THE BIG DEAL

October 18, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged budget, committee, continuing resolution, debt limit, defense, democrat, education, federal policy, federal worker, funding, mcconnell, politics, Reaction Fee, republican, satellites, teach for america, weather, workers | Leave a comment

SPECIAL POST Congress finally reached a deal to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling. Unfortunately, the legislation (HR 2775) only funds the government until January 15, 2014 and only extends the US borrowing authority until February 7, 2014. In the meantime, the House and Senate will hold a budget conference, hoping to hash […]

TOENAIL FUNGUS, HEMORRHOIDS, AND DOG POOP

October 13, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, antarctic, budget, climate, committee, courts, debt, defense, democrat, dog poop, education, environment, EPA, federal government programs, federal policy, fungus, government, hemarrhoid, james webb, jewell, keystone, laureate, mooc, nasa, national park, nih, nist, noaa, NRC, nsf, nuclear, oil, polls, renewables, research, satellite, science, sequestration, shutdown, sonar, space, toenail, weather, whales | 2 Comments

MOVING AHEAD WHILE SHUTDOWN

October 7, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged affirmative action, agriculture, american dream, arsenic, bank, budget, campaign, climate, college, commercial space, committee, COMPETES, courts, democrat, duncan, education, emissions, energy, environment, EPA, fda, federal government programs, federal policy, foreign language, gender, government, hanford, immigration, iss, keystone, liberal arts, moniz, nasa, nsf, nuclear, obama, politics, polls, R&D, renewables, republican, science, sequestration, shutdown, smr, space, STEM, supreme court, tuition | 1 Comment

The Government Shutdown – A Teachable Moment

October 2, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged appropriations, budget, children, committee, compromise, democrat, education, english, essay, federal government programs, games, government, leadership, president obama, series, shutdown, teachable moment, teacher | 7 Comments

The federal government shutdown engenders dismay, confusion, and even outrage, but who is to blame? Press reports and interviews frequently allege a lack of cooperation and compromise on both sides caused the current shutdown. So, is it true that there always two sides to a story? Does the argument that Republicans, Democrats and the President […]