Third time's a charm

I am heartened by the fact that President Obama mentioned student loan debt three times in his State of the Union address this evening. The...

Who's In? Next Writing Campaign

With the overall response from the White House - when I participated in the telephone conference with Biden's Middle Class Task Force -...

Quick post about Obama's Middle Class Task Force's Telephone Conference Today

The house is empty and we're heading across country tomorrow, but I was still able to be a part of a critical conference call with the W...

Part I: A progress report on my work, thank yous, and getting the word out about Senator Sherrod Brown's Debt Swap Proposal

The White House sends me a letter , I finally hear from the Department of Education (no word back as of yet, so I'll touch base again ne...

Quick Note: The President's State of the Union Address

President Obama has sent several letters out to us about our concerns regarding the student lending crisis. Those aren't the words he us...

Quick Post and Quick Request: Holding Public Servants Accountable

Since I just received a letter from President Obama and also an actual email response from the Department of Education (allow me to publicl...

Letter from President Obama

There were several positive events that occurred last week. First, I was more than pleased when Michele Y. Brown from the Department of Educ...

The Obama Administration: Why They Have Failed (Part II)

It's been an exhausting week, and the end point was a moving sale that began this past Saturday at 7 AM. But several key readers have as...

The Obama Administration: Why They Have Failed

A strong supporter of the Obama Adminstration, Deanne Loonin, wrote an excellent piece entitled, "Get Rid of Student Loan Collection Ag...

Musings on resistance through everyday life acts, and how has the economic downturn changed your attitude about your student loans?

The economic downturn has forced all of us to rethink fundamental things about everyday life. The most mundane and insignificant are now vie...

Betrayal in Kentucky, in North Carolina, and . . .

In June 2009 Stephen Burd over at the New American Foundation wrote a piece here that critiqued a NYT article on the 7000 nurses and teac...