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Illinois Legislators Honor Right Of Consumers To Buy Farm Fresh Milk

Press Release | The Weston A. Price Foundation | April 10, 2014

A proposed bill in Illinois banning the sale and distribution of natural or “raw” milk, is not going anywhere this session after legislators heard from “thousands” of natural milk proponents. The restriction, which was introduced as an amendment to an unrelated bill, would have banned the sale and distribution of raw milk in Illinois. Read More »

Interview To Alastair Parvin And Wikihouse Project

Simone Cicero | Open Electronics | October 17, 2013

For the latest episode of our Meet The Founders interviews we are releasing today the intervivew we made recently with WIkihouse funder Alastair Parvin. The interview come up superbe and it touches a lot of topics, ranging from furniture manufacturing to VC strategies, from crowdfunding to openness. Read More »

Is The Presidential Election Healthcare's Own Perfect Storm For EHRs?

Lee Barrett | Government Health IT | November 2, 2012

When two opposing forces collide, the results can be devastating. Earlier this week Hurricane Sandy — a warm air, warm-water storm moving up from the south — met up with a bitterly cold nor’easter, creating a monster storm that battered the East Coast. On the eve of the presidential election, healthcare leaders cannot help but wonder if the industry facing its own perfect storm. Read More »

Jeremiah Owyang: Why The Industrial Revolution Is About To Unravel

Fred Bauters | Silicon Valley News | February 1, 2014

There's a revolution coming, and Jeremiah Owyang wants you to be prepared. In 2005, social media was a nascent topic, viewed as a fad by brands and corporations. He saw it coming then, and believes the next step after social—a collaborative economy based on peer-to-peer transactions and co-innovation—is about to change our world. Read More »

Let Startups Start Out Tax-Free

Jay S. Fishman | Bloomberg | June 10, 2012

Small businesses represent 99.7 percent of all private-sector employers, provide great innovation and are the most potent force to revive America’s economy, which cannot grow at a healthy pace without them. Yet small businesses continue to face unnecessary obstacles to their success.

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Making Dollars And Sense Of The Open Data Economy

Alex Howard | O'Reilly Radar | December 11, 2012

Is the push to free up government data resulting in economic activity and startup creation?
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Marco Rubio: No Bailouts For ObamaCare

Marco Rubio | Wall Street Journal | November 18, 2013

With every passing day, ObamaCare's flaws are being exposed in painful ways for the American people. What started as a broken website—and nonexistent Spanish one—is now snowballing into a full-scale disaster that makes it increasingly clear this law can't be fixed. Read More »

Mendeley User Analysis Shows Open Access Is Critical For Low-Income Countries

Staff Writer | Science 2.0 | November 1, 2012

The Mendeley collaboration company has published the Global Research Report (http://mnd.ly/global-research-report), an analysis of two million scholars' research activity in relation to economic indicators and research productivity. Read More »

More Americans Now Commit Suicide Than Are Killed In Car Crashes

Staff Writer | Daily Mail | September 22, 2012

Suicide is the cause of more deaths than car crashes, according to an alarming new study. Read More »

NASA Spinoff 2012 Features New Space Tech Bettering Your Life Today

Press Release | Spinoff2012, NASA | February 13, 2013

A plant texts a farmer to say it needs more water. An invisible coating scrubs pollutants from the air. A robot roams a hospital's halls, aiding doctors and nurses by recording vital signs and registrations. The 2012 edition of NASA's annual Spinoff publication captures a nation and world made better by advancements originally achieved for space technology. Read More »

NBC/WSJ Poll: 60 Percent Say Fire Every Member Of Congress

Domenico Montanaro | NBC News | October 10, 2013

Throw the bums out. That’s the message 60 percent of Americans are sending to Washington in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, saying if they had the chance to vote to defeat and replace every single member of Congress, including their own representative, they would. Just 35 percent say they would not. Read More »

New York: It's Time To Take Action For Open Access

Adi Kamdar | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | June 7, 2013

The New York State Senate and Assembly are considering the Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act (S4050 / A180). This bill—which would give the public access to the results of tens from millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded research—is a crucial step in the fight for open access. Read More »

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Says Government Must Embrace Tech, Be Open Source

João-Pierre S. Ruth | Xconomy | March 20, 2013

Monday afternoon Newark Mayor Cory Booker crossed the Hudson River to chat at the OnMedia NYC conference about changes he believes government can make through technology. His administration uses social media to get residents more active in improving their community... Read More »

Nice Places Finish First

John M. Bridgeland and Alan Khazei | Washington Monthly | November 1, 2013

The American Dream is a core part of our national ethos. It is the idea that anyone can advance up the economic ladder with hard work and determination, regardless of where they come from or what zip code they’re born into. Read More »

NSA Spying Risks $35 Billion In U.S. Technology Sales

Nicole Gaouette | Bloomberg | November 26, 2013

International anger over the National Security Agency’s Internet surveillance is hurting global sales by American technology companies and setting back U.S. efforts to promote Internet freedom. Read More »