Iowa City Owl

Last week the Obama administration announced a bill that would potentially help relieve the pressure of the waning job market that resulted from the lengthy economic recession. Part of Obama’s American Jobs Act proposes a tax relief specifically for businesses as a means to initiate job development and avoid layoffs.

mc chris (lowercase intentional) headlined a concert in Iowa City last night featuring MC Lars, MegaRan, and Adam WarRock to a sold-out crowd at the upstairs of the Blue Moose Tap House in downtown Iowa City.

With 2012 elections looming just around the corner, tensions couldn’t be higher in Washington. Americans are showing more and more frustration, with a recent poll putting the number of people who approve of how Congress is doing its job at a mere 12%.

The Israeli government is struggling to maintain political status quo this month after multiple diplomatic rifts with it’s regional allies, Egypt and Turkey, over the perpetual issue of Palestinian statehood.

After placing sixth and seventh in the Iowa straw poll, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney have dominated the Republican field of Presidential candidates. The former Governors have focused almost exclusively on each other in the last two debates.

As the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, passes, it seems the fragile and politically correct analysis of each and every media publication related to the attacks is wearing away. While major news sites maintain their focus on the heroes of 9/11, the military abroad, and the families left facing devastating losses after the attacks, some are moving away from the traditional "salute to America’s heroes" stories.

“Employers Say Jobs Plan Won’t Lead to Hiring Spur,” declares the alarming headline of an article published by the New York Times earlier today. The article went on to explain: "… many employers dismissed the notion that any particular tax break or incentive would be persuasive.

In 2005, MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte founded One Laptop per Child, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing low-cost, low-maintenance laptops to children in developing countries in an effort to enhance children’s education.

In a poll of 30,000 people world-wide, the United States was recently voted the “coolest nation”. What makes Americans so cool. According to voters, things like the iPhone, Levi's, Harley Davidson and people like Jay-Z, Johnny Depp and President Obama all contributed to America’s “coolness”.

Obama's message to congress was clear as he addressed them over his new American Jobs Act "You should pass this bill." Much of the news cycle over the last week has centered on President Obama’s pending jobs speech.