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Breaking Up The Banks I Did It
As the debate heats up over Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, I took a step out on my own. I got a divorce. I am no longer a wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank. First Wells Fargo acquired the bank I’d been banking in. Then...
Major Week Of Events To Celebrate One Year Of Health Care Reform
Melinda Gibson is the Operations Manager for Health Care for America Now! The following originally appeared on the HCAN blog. Health Care for America Now (HCAN), the nationwide coalition that led the successful fight for health reform, is hosting more than 75...
Merchants of Danger
Fukushima is "a very huge disaster that has caused very large damage at a nuclear power generation plant on a scale that we had not expected," according to the deputy director general of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. But the risk of disaster was easily...
Looking For Jobs at CPAC
No, I'm not jumping ship or anything like that. I'm just at CPAC looking for something, anything about how conservatives plan to create jobs. Let's just say I'm still looking. Today, I'm attending (and covering) the Conservative Political Action Conference (a.k.a...
We Cant Let an Amateur Right-Wing Smear Campaign Destroy NPR
with Michael Winship There’s no more scrupulous or versatile broadcast journalist than NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling. He is one of those reporters who keeps his eye on the sparrow – that is, on small details from individual lives that add up to significant issues of public...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/21/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Stand With Warren...
The Rights Pushback Against Taxing the Rich
The rising public clamor for higher taxes on America's wealthy has conservative ideologues increasingly uneasy. For good reason. They don't have the numbers on their side. Or much history either. A simple but powerful chant is now starting to reverberate, all across...
As Public Schools Teeter on the Brink Our Leaders Look the Other Way
Imagine taking your child to her first day of kindergarten and finding out that there won’t be a teacher for the class of 30 children until October. Imagine being a working family with two young children barely getting from paycheck to paycheck and getting told that...
Tax & Spend Conservatives Pt 2 -- Mississippi
As I wrote earlier, a funny thing happened on the way to budget solvency in some pretty red states: It didn't work. Budget cuts and austerity have left Texas in the red, and the legislature taking a hammer to the state's piggy bank, with an eye toward spending some of...
Tax & Spend Conservatives Pt 1 -- Texas
A funny thing on the way to state budget solvency in Texas and Mississippi, which are among the reddest of the red states. You can't get much more conservative than Texas' and Mississippi's governors, Rick Perry and Haley Barbour. The same goes for their budget...
