by Bill Scher | Oct 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Jockeying Continues As Reid Drafts Health Care Bill Sen. Harkin does a public option whip count for NYT: "'There are 52 solid Democrats for the public option,'...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 19, 2009 | Blog
The meeting got testy. Voices rose last Thursday among Democrats over differences in the Senate Finance and Health committee versions of insurance reform. Max Baucus defended his committee’s bill, voted out last week with one Republican, but lacking a public option...
by Roger Hickey | Oct 19, 2009 | Blog
This is the moment when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and Majority Leader Harry Reid (and President Obama) should make history by producing a Senate health reform bill that makes health insurance truly affordable for all Americans, creates a strong...
by Bill Scher | Oct 18, 2009 | Blog
Many of us talk about how we need shift from being mainly a service-based economy and revitalize our manufacturing base. Few of us actually make the shift ourselves. On Saturday's The LiberalOasis Radio Show, which airs on WHMP in Western MA, "My River Chronicles"...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 17, 2009 | Blog
This is interesting: US, Mexico, Canada to hold talks on NAFTA. From the story, US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in a statement Thursday that he will host Mexico's Secretary of the Economy Gerardo Ruiz Mateos and Canadian Trade Minister Stockwell Day for talks on...
