by Alan Jenkins | Feb 10, 2009 | Blog, Economy
This week President Obama promoted his much-needed economic recovery package in a prime-time news conference and a trip to economically depressed Elkhart, Indiana, where the unemployment rate has topped 15%. Cities and towns like Elkhart are bellwethers for where the...
by Sara Robinson | Feb 10, 2009 | Blog
Progressives around the country can breathe a little easier today: James Adkisson has been sentenced to life behind bars for the deaths of Greg McKendry and Linda Kraeger, the Unitarian Universalist martyrs who died during his assault on their church in Knoxville,...
by Bill Scher | Feb 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
TODAY: After filibuster squelched in Senate, final econ recovery vote NOON ET, House-Senate conf follows. Treasury announcement on financial bailout 11 AM ET. Presidential town hall in Florida NOON ET. TOMORROW: Thinking Big Conference featuring Paul Krugman, more...
by Bill Scher | Feb 10, 2009 | Blog
Yesterday, President Barack Obama made clear he is not accepting the Senate "Gang of Moderates" compromise as is, while the Senate moderates failed to mount a logical defense of their cuts. In short, The Senate compromise on economic recovery means to prevent $70...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 9, 2009 | Blog
There are times when moderation is no virtue, and this economic recovery is one of those times. So let's be blunt about it: Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., has been a leading obstructionist on the road to economic recovery. He, along with an infinitesimal group of Republican...
