KGLP Slide Show

Friday, August 19, 2011

National News





  • Keeping with the financial theme this morning. The Takeaway covers Standard & Poor's under investigation for allegedly improperly rating dozens of mortgage securities leading up to the financial crisis. Should the credit rating process be more transparent? Do you think tranparency of practice would have prevented-or at least lessened the impact of-the economic crisis?
    www.pri.org
     
    Justice Department investigating Standard & Poor's for allegedly improperly rating dozens of mortgage securities leading up to the financial crisis.



  • Michele Bachmann: Gay Families Are Not ‘Families’ | ThinkProgress
    On yesterday’s Meet The Press , host David Gregory challenged Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann on some of her anti-gay views


  • Good question.
    e360.yale.edu
    Daunted by high up-front costs, U.S. homeowners continue to shy away from residential solar power systems, even as utility-scale solar projects are taking off. But with do-it-yourself kits and other innovative installation approaches now on the market, residential solar is having modest growth.



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