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Jobs Los Angeles 3010 Initiative
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been pushing what he calls the 30/10 Initiative. The idea is simple: take all of local transportation projects around the country that are planned for the next 30 years and get them done in the next 10 years instead. This...
DLC RIP
The Democratic Leadership Council, according to press reports, is broke and closing its doors. For anyone who cares about working and poor people, this is a demise that should have come much sooner. The DLC -- Democrats for the Leisure Class, in Jesse Jackson's...
Defunding Health Reform Latest GOP Pledge To Crumble
Before becoming Speaker, Rep. John Boehner flatly pledged to deny all funding to the health reform law if he couldn't repeal it, saying, "They'll get not one dime from us. Not a dime." How interesting then that, all of the sudden, Speaker Boehner is carrying a big...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/8/2011
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: DLC RIP...
Egypt Human Rights and America
After two weeks behind the curve on the uprising in Egypt, the Obama administration seems to have found it’s voice, recognizing that our national interests and our national values point in the same direction—toward democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. There...
Republican Budget Plan Bankers and Plutocrats First
Conservative Republican legislators have vowed to block raising the debt limit to force deep cuts in spending on everything from head start to K-to12 education, to health research. They vow to combine blocking any increase in the debt limit with instructions mandating...
Banksters Back in the Black JP Morgan Chase
Earnings and bonus reports are rolling in and the big, bailed-out banks are back in the black. In 2010, total compensation and benefits at publicly traded Wall Street banks and securities firms hit a record of $135 billion -- up almost six percent from 2009 according...
Imported from Detroit
Check out the Eminem Chrysler Superbowl Ad: The Motor City, with moxie
Progressive Breakfast - 2/7/2011
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: After Obama...
After Obama Speaks Will The Chamber Spend
President Barack Obama addresses the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today. In a preview of his remarks, the Washington Post reports that infrastructure investment will be a "likely point of focus for Obama" as it is a "rare point of agreement between business and labor."...
