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Former Gov. Terry Branstad, recently told WHO-AM’s Jan Mickelson that the 1982 U.S

…Here we go again. The Iowa GOP candidates cherrypicking the constitution. So, now denying education to immigrants is now the new pet projects. Add that with repealing Social Security, healthcare reform bill, and others on the Iowans’ dime.
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A profile into AK GOP candidate Joe Cocoa Puffs Miller. From NYT:
Even as Mr. Miller vows to drastically scale back the size and spending of the federal government, he has spent much of his life in some form of government employment or service.
The military helped educate him. At one point in 2002, he worked simultaneously as an acting state district judge and a part-time federal magistrate.
For seven years, until last September, he worked part time as a salaried assistant attorney for the Fairbanks North Star Borough, roughly equivalent to a county government. One of his biggest cases involved successfully extracting higher tax revenues from the companies that own the Trans-Alaska Pipeline….

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Think Progress » Top Iowa GOP Candidates Back Unconstitutional Proposal To Deny Education To Immigrants

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About a month ago, my blogging partner Joe McKendrick wrote about an IBM CEO survey of about 1,500 leaders that was a gauge of the qualities they beli

…About a month ago, my blogging partner Joe McKendrick wrote about an IBM CEO survey of about 1,500 leaders that was a gauge of the qualities they believed necessary to lead well. There actually is a parallel companion survey that has just been released, Inheriting a Complex World: Future Leaders Envision Sharing the Planet, reflecting the views of more than 3,000 university students in more than 40 countries.
Why should you care about what they think? Because within four years, these Millennials will make up approximately half of the global workforce. They will either be working for you or they will be your boss.
Like the CEOs, the student respondents stressed creativity as the most important emerging competency of future leaders. They also were very clear in their belief that information technology is a critical tool that can help address issues both in business and in our culture. I believe these two sentiments work very much in parallel: By letting technology deal with the analytical side of things,…

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Start them young(er): Education overlooks global sustainabil

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