Brian Gongol
Show notes from the WHO Radio Wise Guys - November 1, 2008
An unlikely way to become a Burger King franchisee
(Video)
Grand Island gets new aeration equipment
Fort Dodge cracks down on illegal sump pumps
"Consider the impact of one-party control"
It could happen on the national level and in Iowa as well
Clean Water Act turns 36 this month
Is it the economic end of the world? No.
However, some members of the majority party in Congress think that the government should completely overturn private-sector retirement savings. That might be the worst economic idea they've offered yet.
Delta and Northwest are now one airline
Crooks use clickjacking to take over webcams
Nebraska governor calls special legislative session to tighten "safe haven" law
He wants it to apply to infants only -- the law, which only recently went into effect, was vague enough to allow parents to leave their teenagers at hospitals without any questions, and a handful did. Overall, the question is whether there is any better way to manage these cases in which parents are willing to give up on their adolescent children. There's quite obviously a need.
How to save General Motors
GM and Chrysler are turning to the taxpayers for $10 billion to help carry out a merger. Really? $30 for every man, woman, and child in the country to help them carry out a merger? The automakers have gotten themselves into trouble in slow motion for at least three decades going -- getting out of trouble isn't going to be a simple matter of mergers and layoffs.
If websites were people, this would be their party
(Video, with a couple of indiscreet references)
Air-travel security is really just expensive theater
We could be doing much better to provide real security, but the flaws are all too real: Weak identification checks, exceptions to rules that become routinized, and gaping holes in who gets screened in the first place. And that overlooks the huge point that security checkpoints themselves are a colossal target.
Google will ante up $125 million to digitize all the books it can find
Seems like a great bargain for them, since one would imagine obtaining specific individual rights to all of the copyright-eligible books in the world would cost a lot more than that
Volkswagen briefly becomes the second-most-valuable company in the world
National Research Council wants "radical changes" to US stormwater regulations
Banking panic threatens Russia and Eastern Europe
If things turn as sour as they could, this turn of events could lead to huge steps backward against all the political progress in those countries
Carbon sequestration could affect water supplies
Notes from the "Brian Gongol Show" on WHO Radio - October 26, 2008
Topics include: The stock market is not the economy...saving General Motors...less independence for the Federal Reserve
Can "unbiased" journalism survive?
The truth is, news reporting has never been unbiased and never will be. But it can be fair, and greater competition tends to lead towards that.