by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 22, 2008 | Blog
The health insurance industry is launching a public relations and lobbying campaign today that is designed to convince people that they are on the side of reform even as they support a status-quo solution suspiciously similar to one pushed by Sen. John McCain and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 21, 2008 | Blog
Netroots Nations participants have four clear priorities for the next president: ending the war in Iraq, addressing the global warming crisis, obtaining health care for all and clsing the growing gap between the rich and poor, according to a straw poll done by...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 21, 2008 | Blog
It’s not just the country’s energy usage that has to urgently move from fossil fuels to new, sustainable energy sources, environmental and social justice activist Van Jones told Netroots Nation participants. The progressive movement itself, he said, has to go “from...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 18, 2008 | Blog
I was sitting in an Austin, Texas, restaurant, eating a concoction made with corn chips, chili and cheese, when the federal government announced that tomatoes that had been suspected as the source of an e.coli outbreak were now safe to eat. The jalapenos that topped...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 18, 2008 | Blog
It seems that whenever that old cliche applies, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," the Bush administration finds new ways to respond, "We're breaking it. The fix is in." One of the things that the Bush administration is breaking now is public transportation for school...
