NY can set the PACE or fall behind ever further - Are we the Empire State or the Empire of Dysfunction?

Hundreds of millions of dollars are hanging in the balance right now - money that will create jobs and savings for every New Yorker.

Yesterday, the New York...

Obama Speaks - Matt Damon, Ashton Kutcher in the house

A well-coiffed Bill Clinton opened the 5th Clinton Global Initiative.

He noted that with the economic crisis there was a possibility of throwing a party with no one showing up, but in fact more leaders are attending this year than...

As a co-architect of the federal Cash For Clunkers (CFC) program and advisor to various congressional offices on the issue, it is gratifying to see how quickly it has been adopted by the American people. CFC achieves multiple goals -- it stimulates auto sales while increasing the efficiency of the...

-- "Cuba is doing better on some cancers than the US"

-- Technology is responsible for 50% of the increase in health care costs

-- NOT TRUE that 80% of health care costs are spent in the last year of life.
Only 10-12% of costs...

The Senate passed a bill yesterday containing the Cash for Clunker (CFC) program allocating $1 billion for the program as the House did last week. I reviewed the merits of the program in a Huff Post article.

Cash for Clunkers is a program which was architected by three organizations:...

A controversy erupted today at the 140 Conference - #140conf - between old and newest media. Having started my first internet company in 1994 I am used to the old vs. new debate.

Three hundred digital dwellers are gathered at the New Theater in NYC to explore what is going...

UPDATE - Tonight on MSNBC's "Countdown" Keith Olbermann cited this post and interviewed General Ricardo Sanchez on the truth commission issue. VIDEO BELOW

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In front of a packed audience on Sunday night at the Times Center in New York City, General Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of all coalition...

Charlie Rose attempts to referee two heavyweight champions as they duke it out for legend and legacy. Protesters march on stage. Quotable moments galore.

The fists were flying tonight at Radio City Music Hall in New York City as James "the Ragin' Cajun" Carville and Karl "I serve as...

Steve Wolfram's new search engine is powered by a huge database and a supercomputer, but can't find a haystack let alone a needle.

WoframAlpha is a new search engine that launched to great fanfare this past week. It is supposed to track down all kinds of data that can be...

Senate leaders are dashing around tonight and tomorrow to get one last yes vote for the Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). The RES would be the first nationwide commitment to a minimum of solar, wind and geothermal energy -- 15% by 2021.

Senators Bayh...

We can use auto financing to get off oil and reduce emissions even faster while boosting the auto market.

The Obama team announced today it will inject $7 billion into the auto financing company GMAC to shore it up and help it absorb Chrysler auto loans.

This is an...

Jeff Bezos came to New York today to release his bigger e-reader -- the Kindle DX.

The DX makes it easy to read 8.5" by 11" docs with a larger screen and includes more memory -- enough for 3,500 books and a stash of documents. The DX also changes...

President Obama came out with a plan yesterday to address the auto sector's woes. He asked Wagoner to step down and called for a fresh approach to helping the industry. Among other items, he called for an immediate program to get inefficient cars off the road and incent Americans to...

How often do you see Paul McCartney and Jack Welch in the same room? It's been a while since Jack Welch attended a McCartney concert, but tonight they were under one roof in front of one very large pipe organ.

Here in New York City , leaders from business,...

Here is Daryl Hannah, actor and activist, prepping for the coal power plant protest in Washington, DC. This plant provides power to the Capitol and other key government buildings. In advance of the protest, Reid and Pelosi agreed to convert the plant to cleaner burning fuels.

When will we...

The Obama campaign was not afraid to defy the rules -- because it had to. The only way for Obama to succeed against two political veterans was to play a different game. Now in office, President Obama has the opportunity to take the federal government in a new direction as...

Billy Parish has shaken up the energy world with his coalition of student energy groups - the Energy Action Coalition.

The coalition brought more than 10,000 students to Washington, DC for Powershift 09 and they went to the hill to lobby for a new energy plan. They also convinced...

Chelsea Sexton was featured in the movie, "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

Chelsea worked for GM on the first commerical electric vehicle, the EV1, and now heads up http://www.pluginamerica.org/

Chelsea is now working on a new film, "The Revenge of the Electric Car" - should be a good one!

Here is our interview with Congressman Ed Markey on energy, climate change and the upcoming bills in Congress.

Congressman Markey serves as the Chairman of the Select Commitee on Global Warming and Energy Security and the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment (now that's a...

Here in the Newseum in Washington , DC, many of the leaders of the United States are all in one room focused on clean energy. To name a few:

1. Majority Leader Harry Reid

2. Speaker Nancy Pelosi

3. DOE Secretary Steve Chu

4. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar

5. Energy...