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One of the First Lady’s SOTU health-insurance guests a sustainability example for business community

January 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on One of the First Lady’s SOTU health-insurance guests a sustainability example for business community

First Lady Michelle Obama had an interesting mix of Americans in her box for the State of the Union speech. Among them was an Oregon businessman: Jim Houser, Portland, OR Jim Houser and his wife have owned an auto repair shop in Portland, Oregon for over 25 years, and they don’t want to lose valuable […]

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Why a Sputnik moment?

January 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment

In the State of the Union address, President Obama referred back to President Kennedy’s call for America to go to the moon. Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik¸ we had no idea how we’d beat them to the moon. The science wasn’t […]

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Tags: Obama Administration · President Barack Obama