February 23, 2013 | Los Angeles Times

Farmers, restaurateurs and others want to ensure workers continue coming into the U.S. to fill jobs they say Americans don't apply for. The list of federal and state programs milk cooperative Joe Wright he would end, given a chance, is considerable: food stamps, subsidized housing, free school lunches, unemployment insurance. "This is an issue where the conservative Republicans are just plain wrong," he said

February 23, 2013 | Christian Science Monitor

Few in Washington believe that “the sequester” – automatic spending cuts that will hit the federal budget to the tune of $85 billion as of March 1 – is a good idea. It has been described variously as a blunt instrument, a cleaver, stupid, and akin to shooting the Department of Defense in the head. But what’s been proposed as an alternative?

February 22, 2013 | Xconomy

The National Science Foundation says that it will fund a major expansion of its Innovation Corps program, an effort to teach NSF-funded university researchers how to build profitable startups around their technologies. In its initial stages, the two-year-old “I-Corps” program has been flying researchers to Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and Georgia Tech for prototype versions of the “Lean Launchpad” course originally developed at Stanford by serial entrepreneur and startup guru Steve Blank.

February 24, 2013 | South Florida Sun Sentinel

It was heralded as one of the greatest economic boons in Florida history, akin to the creation of Walt Disney World, the Kennedy Space Center, the air conditioner. But nearly a decade later, this much is clear. The ambitious plan for a world-class biotech research and industrial complex that would catapult South Florida and more specifically, northern Palm Beach County, onto the international stage has sputtered.