FREMONT, Calif. — After filing for bankruptcy on Sept. 6, the California solar panel manufacturer Solyndra LCC is now asking a Delaware judge to approve approximately $500,000 in employee bonuses. The Huffington Post reported the potential bonuses would be distributed to nine equipment engineers, six general business and finance employees, four facilities workers and two [...]
Solyndra requests approval for $500,000 in bonuses despite bankruptcy filing
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Obama’s half-uncle arrested in Framingham
Aug. 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
While President Obama was kicking back in Martha’s Vineyard, his half-uncle was locked up on a drunk driving charge. Unfortunately, Obama could not answer his relative’s phone call from the big house. Onyango Obama, 67, of Framingham was arrested on Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. according to Middlesex District Attorney Spokeswoman Cara O’Brien. After he failed [...]
Obama wants kids to make video games
Sept. 17, 2010 1 Comment
President Obama has challenged kids to make their own video game.
Health care reform is step forward for ailing nation
March 22, 2010 3 Comments
If you followed the non-stop health care coverage leading up to last night’s vote, you may be surprised to learn that Obama isn’t sitting atop the White House with a sniper rifle picking off old people one by one.
George W. Bush billboard asks, ‘Miss Me Yet?’
Feb. 9, 2010 4 Comments
A billboard just outside Wyoming, Minn. has sparked a national conversation regarding our current president’s relative effectiveness as compared to former President George W. Bush.
Obama challenges nation to be a clean energy leader
Oct. 23, 2009 1 Comment
President praises work of MIT
Barack Obama: A visionary’s choice for Nobel Peace Prize
Oct. 10, 2009 1 Comment
And then there’s the victor, Barack Obama, a Harvard law school graduate, community organizer, civil rights lawyer, law professor, junior senator and president of the most “powerful” country in the world. A stunning resume, but where are the accomplishments? The peace work, the advocacy, the results?
Loudmouth Joe Wilson
Sept. 10, 2009 2 Comments
Just as President Obama, during a speech about health care reform at a joint session of Congress Wednesday night stated his new health care plan would not cover illegal immigrants, Joe Wilson did the unthinkable. “You lie!†he shouted at the President, anger spewing from his mouth and his gaze.
EarthTalk: Insulating paints? “Clean” coal?
June 29, 2009 2 Comments
EarthTalk answers: Do insulating paints work? And what does Obama think of “clean” coal?
Obama’s speech resonates with Cairo crowd
June 4, 2009 Leave a Comment
I thought it was really effective in its own way and for its own purpose, which was to get Muslims and Americans thinking about their attitudes toward one another and to show the Arab world that America’s new government is committed to mending international relationships that have been negatively affected by Muslim extremists.
