by Kevin Wang | Jul 26, 2012 | Business & Tech, National Security
WASHINGTON – A federally sponsored project is trying to make the voting system more accessible to veterans who were injured on the battlefield. In an update Tuesday before a joint panel of lawmakers, Brad Fain, a technical director at the Information Technology and...
by Kevin Wang | Jul 25, 2012 | Business & Tech, Immigration
WASHINGTON –Politicians are waking up to the importance of courting Asian-Americans, but advocates worry that Democrats and Republicans still don’t understand the issues facing the growing minority group or how to move the community to participate in elections....
by Elizabeth Dexheimer | Jul 25, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Opponents of Citizens United, the controversial Supreme Court decision that gave corporations and special interest groups the right to contribute unlimited funds to political campaigns, on Tuesday renewed their calls for comprehensive campaign...
by Matt Michaels | Jul 24, 2012 | Business & Tech, Politics
WASHINGTON – An influential Senate committee called leading players in the broadcast industry to a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday in a quest for answers about the escalating fees and blackouts plaguing TV viewers across the country. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV,...
by Kimiteru Tsuruta | Jul 19, 2012 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Discoveries in science can help meet the needs of certain societal needs, but entrepreneurs fill a big gap that exists between the laboratory and marketplace. In 2011, the National Science Foundation started a program called Innovation Corps...
by Elizabeth Dexheimer | Jul 18, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Some of the country’s most powerful female Republicans and Democrats agreed on Tuesday the U.S. is better served by empowering more women leaders. But their tone differed slightly on how best to achieve that balance. The message from Democrats was...
