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Dear President Obama,

On the anniversary of your much hyped "Stimulus Package," your "Organizing for America" campaign at barackobama.com sent me an e-mail titled "Have You Seen This?" with the following graphic highlighted in it: Full Story 

The newly created Dane County Regional Transit Authority (RTA) meets for the first time on March 4. The public is encouraged to actively participate in discussions about the scope, cost and deliverables of an integrated transportation system designed to provide regional transportation for workers, visitors, and residents. These decisions are not just about addressing our present transit needs, but also planning where we will be 50 years from now. Full Story 

As businesses increasingly consider online software to address specific business needs, a basic understanding of how so-called "cloud computing" agreements differ from traditional software licensing agreements can go a long way toward helping a business strike the best deal possible. Full Story 

The economy is down, and we have been bleeding good jobs for years. The government's domestic priorities seem to be health care, and to spend its way into a better economy. I don't know where these people learned economics, but I figured someone should try to clue them in to what is simple and real. Let me see if I can explain this as eloquently and simply as my grandpa explained it to me when I was a kid. Full Story