by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 1, 2007 | Blog
To members of Congress who intend to offer health care proposals: Do not be afraid to be bold. That's the lesson that elected officials should take away from the mixed reaction to some of the proposals that have been offered for discussion in the past few weeks. Any...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 21, 2007 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
Columnist Paul Krugman on Monday wrote that he did something highly risky: He ate a salad. We are well familiar with the e. coli contamination of lettuce and spinach, and the more recent cases of pet food contamination. But Krugman, following on the heels of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 18, 2007 | Blog
Do you know how you could eat on just $21 a week? This week, you may have heard about the four members of Congress who have decided to try living on the amount of food they could buy with $21, the average weekly Food Stamp program allotment. One of the members,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 18, 2007 | Blog
Veteran journalist Bill Moyers is using his PBS show, Bill Moyers' Journal, to raise the public profile of a postal rate change that has been stirring anger in the progressive press for weeks. Earlier this month, the price of a first-class stamp went up two...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 16, 2007 | Blog
Our blog posts show how too many in power either ignore, misunderstand or underestimate what we the people told Washington in November. That's why we're looking to have more than 3,000 progressives rock the nation's capital June 18-20 at Take Back America 2007....
