Republican leaders this week unveiled a new mobile app that helps Americans follow the action of the House of Representatives from the palm of their hand. The app is available on the iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, and Android phone and tablet. The app, called WhipCast, is the first government app to be simultaneously released on all three major mobile platforms. The project was spearheaded by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who stars in the promotional video. “Prior Congresses wrote and passed legislation in the dark of the night,” wrote Brian …
The Heritage Foundation is taking its technological reach even further this week with the release of the new Heritage mobile application, available for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Available for immediate download from the iTunes store, the application features the latest posts from our Foundry blog, the most recent Heritage Foundation reports, opinion articles appearing in newspapers across the country, original Heritage videos, and useful one-page fact sheets on current events. We hope that you will take advantage of this free new app and recommend it to friends and family.
Picture the world in 1960 and imagine how much has changed over the past half century. Now picture the average classroom in 1960 and today. In both, you’d probably see roughly the same thing—a teacher standing in front of a row of desks. Today, there might be a computer or two in the classroom. But the set-up and the teaching process are probably about the same. This mental experiment highlights how education is one of the areas of American life that has been most resistance to change over the last …
Don’t look now, but the FCC is back in business. For some nine months the Federal Communications Commission had been operating with no permanent chairman, and with 3 of its 5 commissioner seats vacant. Now, with the confirmation of new chairman Julius Genachowski, and new commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Meredith Attwell Baker, the agency is locked, loaded, and ready to go. It’s first target? Not broadcasters, despite talk of a revived Fairness Doctrine, or Internet providers, despite talk of “net neutrality” regulation. Their turn may come soon, but first up …
