On Dec. 6, after weeks of negotiation, President Obama announced a deal with Republicans that will extend the Bush tax cuts for all Americans, including those who make over $250,000, for two more years. This “compromise” was undeniably one-sided. Obama surrendered on one of his central campaign promises.
Back in late 2004, when George W. Bush was poised to win a second presidential term and Barack Obama was still a lowly state representative campaigning for a Senate seat, you probably would have shrugged if anyone had asked you about the long-term fiscal position of the country. Everything seemed to be fine.
On Dec. 8 at about noon, the Georgetown University Student Association’s Student Activities Fee Endowment reform referendum reached the 2,000-vote threshold it needed for its results to be considered valid.
Georgetown University’s Department of Public Safety, working with George Washington University’s Police Department and the Metropolitan Police Department, has identified a suspect in one of the many cases of laptop theft on Georgetown’s campus this semester.
Recently, when Georgetown Professor Maurice Jackson went to the University bookstore to purchase a book he had written to give to a friend, he received an unpleasant surprise: the store did not stock his text, African-Americans and the Haitian Revolution.
Georgetown University caught a financial break last month when the D.C. Council approved its request for $90 million in tax-exempt bonds, most of which will fund the new Science Center.
With Georgetown’s 2000 Campus Plan set to expire on Dec. 31, negotiations about the controversial 2010 Campus Plan between University officials and neighborhood groups have ceased.
You open the cabinet, take a mug from the shelf, fill it with tap water and set the microwave to two minutes. Another cup of tea, another late night. You’re... Read more
The Metropolitan Police Department’s reimbursable detail program, which regularly provides patrols for Georgetown’s businesses and residential areas around campus, faces significant budget cuts under the 2011 fiscal year budget .
I’ve been Michelle [Rhee’s] deputy for the past three-and-a-half years, so they are not her policies. They are our policies. I ran our human capital shop and everything that had to do with people, including hiring, firing, professionally developing.
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