Not yet. The $15/hr minimum wage will go into effect over several years.

In most US states the highest paid public employee is a football or basketball coach.

Jenny McCarthy couldn't have done it without news and talk shows presenting her views as being just as valid as real medical experts. It isn't so much 'Thanks Jenny' as 'Thanks Oprah for being more interested in ratings than public health'.

IBM has a huge software group.

It hardly seems wild if there aren't wild things that can eat people in it.

Early on IBM made a lot of money off PCs. It made buckets of money from the original PC, the PC XT and the PC/AT. It was only after PCs became commodity items that IBM was unable to maintain their traditionally high profit margins.

If the only users of libraries were people who only read text, I would be OK with an all e-reader library. However, I've noticed that my local library's children section is well used, and a lot of those users are early readers and parents of early readers who take out books where the illustrations matter as much as the words. And many of those books are large format that don't do well in a smaller format. It seems like a library going to an all e-reader format is abandoning an awful lot of the books for early readers.

I recently interviewed six candidates from Europe for a position that would be managed from the US. None of their CVs had an age or marital status. Perhaps they don't specify it for US based jobs. They all had graduation dates, so it wasn't hard to estimate their ages.

Once he selected NY as his state he was presented with a link to the NY site. That happened at the beginning of the federal site, before he started entering registration data. Once he got onto the NY site he had to enter registration data before he could compare plans.

My son just applied for insurance for his family through the NY exchange. I sat with him through the process just to see what it was like. The process was pretty painless and he found a plan that offered the same coverage as his current one for about $250 per month less. What I didn't like about the process is that you had to officially register in order to comparison shop.

It's not so much that they are throwing more bodies, but that for such a high profile web site they are just now bringing in the best and the brightest. Why weren't these people working on this project from the beginning? I don't know that it would have mattered though, as the main problem seems to have been that too much of the requirements were not well defined until too late in t he development cycle. Software projects get delayed all the time, but this one seems to have been pushed out before it was thoroughly tested. My guess is that plenty of people knew this thing was half baked, but that the release date couldn't slip for political reasons.

Without funding from a continuing resolution, how would Obama keep these facilities, national parks, monuments, etc. funded and running?

Doesn't it depend on whether the apps are considered to be something that is purchased at retail by the general consumer? Things like mechanical and powered wheelchairs, portable oxygen concentrators, glucose monitors and personal heart rate monitors are not taxed. NMR and x-ray machines are taxed.

Sea level rise is not uniform around the world. It can vary due to ocean currents and the prevailing wind patterns. The San Francisco Bay's level may also be affected by water flowing into it. Compare the graph you linked to to the following locations. They all have different rates of change. Atlantic City, NJ looks to have twice rate of increase of San Francisco. Galveston is increasing at three times the rate of San Francisco. There may be natural forces holding back the sea level rise at San Francisco, but even those can hold back the sea for only so long.

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8534720
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8771450
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8724580
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9410170

I live in upstate NY, in the Finger Lakes region. Our power is pretty reliable. There are outages, but nothing like a couple of hours monthly. Two or three times per year we lose power briefly. We lost power for several hours once in the last year. All of our power outages seem to happen during high wind events that cause trees to fall on power lines.