by Terrance Heath | Mar 18, 2011 | Blog
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...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 18, 2011 | Blog
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...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 18, 2011 | Blog, Economy
This headline in The Washington Post earlier this week—House Republicans try to steer focus back to jobs—(after guess who took the focus off of jobs) highlights how silly the silly season has gotten for the right in Washington, but it also is a sign that even the...
by Bill Scher | Mar 18, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Today, Politico reported that congressional Republicans are actually aware that they are failing to convince the electorate that they have a strategy to create jobs. But they appear to think they only have a communication problem: National Republican Senatorial...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 18, 2011 | Blog
As a progressive, sometimes I almost feel that I should say "Thank you" to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Not for what he's trying to do to Wisconsin, but for energizing the progressive movement, and motivating the Democrat's base in a way that many of us...
