on the radar...

The Transition/ Cabinet Appointments; Bush executive orders

• Speculation swirls around Obama pick for Secretary of State; Clinton a contender
• Valerie Jarrett named Senior White House Advisor
• Gregory Craig pegged as White House counsel.
• More Key Staff Appointments: Pete Rouse, (Obama's Senate chief of staff), White House senior adviser; Mona Stuphen (a top corporate consultant) and Jim Messina (COS for Obama's presidential campaign), White House deputy chiefs of staff.
• "Obama appoints Youtube... as Secretary of Video"
• Obama steps down as Senator
• What's up with this down low tax policy change?
  

Life issues

• Op-ed: Obama's promise
• Catholic bishops to push back on abortion
• Diocese repudiates a SC priest
  
• http://www.fightfoca.com/
  

Education

• Regulations RE: dropout rate adopted
  
• Obama's weigh public/private schools in DC
• NM first site to adopt Navajo textbook
• Gates Foundation to focus on college completion
• States facing budget cuts eye K12