Fisker, electric carmaker backed by $529 million U.S. loan, balks at Solyndra comparison
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 22nd, 2011 4:34 am by HL
Fisker, electric carmaker backed by $529 million U.S. loan, balks at Solyndra comparison
An electric car company backed by more than a half-billion dollars in Department of Energy loan guarantees has missed early manufacturing goals and has gradually pushed back plans for U.S. production and the creation of thousands of jobs.
This week, Fisker delayed until 2013 the production of the moderately priced family car it plans to build in Delaware. It also learned that its Finnish-produced luxury model, the $96,000 Karma, which is two years late in reaching U.S. markets, failed to meet a promised energy-efficiency standard.
White House defends its record on poverty
Top officials in the Obama administration are defending the president from criticism that he has not done enough to help the poor.
In a wide-ranging conversation hosted Thursday by TheRoot.com, Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to the president, and Melody Barnes, the president’s domestic policy adviser, said the administration’s policies have helped to keep millions of Americans from sliding into poverty.
Biden’s absurd claims about rising rape and murder rates
“Let’s look at the facts: in 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65 and rapes–just to pick two categories–climbed to 229. In 2011, you now only have 125 shields.”
A new battlefront for GOP presidential contenders: Tax policy
The clash between the establishment and the insurgency in the fight for the 2012 Republican nomination is shifting to a new arena: tax policy.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and businessman Herman Cain, two of the candidates pursuing the votes of the most conservative bloc of Republicans, are both touting radical overhauls of the federal tax code. But former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the candidate most closely associated with the party establishment, has opted against such an approach and has offered a proposal that would largely keep the current tax structure in place.
2012 Redistricting: Top 10 races between House incumbents
Every 10 years, incumbents are forced to face off with one another thanks to the reshuffling of congressional districts known as redistricting.
And with a little more than half of states now done drawing their new maps, we’ve got a pretty good idea about where those incumbents will be dueling.
Below, we look at the top ten districts where it looks like incumbents will fight one another, review their just-filed third quarter fundraising numbers, and try to give you a sense of where their races are going.
