by Isaiah J. Poole | May 22, 2008 | Blog
The American Public Transportation Association is projecting a 7 percent increase in the number of tourists taking public transportation this summer, thanks to stratospheric gasoline prices. According to the transit trade group: Thirty-five percent of those who will...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 16, 2008 | Blog
I flashed back to the Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign, which aimed to build a "rainbow coalition" of working-class people based on progressive populist economic policies, earlier this week in my post on Firedog Lake. It is easy to get discouraged by...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 15, 2008 | Blog
It is, as our co-director Robert Borosage pointed out this week, ludicrous on its face. House Republicans, coming out of their weekly caucus on Wednesday, started touting their latest slogan, "the change you deserve," and they are being virtually laughed out of the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 14, 2008 | Blog
It does not take much to understand why a hard-core Republican district in Mississippi would elect a Democrat to the House of Representatives by a nine-point margin. Mississippi is a state under particularly serious economic stress, a point brought home in a report...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 8, 2008 | Blog
A column I've just posted on Firedog Lake takes Sen. John McCain and the Bush administration to task for failing to address one of the most critical failings of our health care system: our overstressed urban hospitals. It was one of the elephants in the room when...
