by Richard Eskow | Jun 28, 2010 | Blog
After much hype and buildup, the AmericaSpeaks "national town meeting" on cutting the deficit was held on Saturday. I watched the proceedings via webcast for much of the morning, knowing that Digby was liveblogging it and David Dayen was on the scene here in Southern...
by Bill Scher | Jun 28, 2010 | Blog
10 years ago, Sen. Robert Byrd blocked a move to end the use of coal at the Capitol Hill Power Plant. Just this month, he voted in support of the EPA"s authority to regulate greenhouse gases. The evolution in his environmental views is another example of Sen. Byrd's...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 28, 2010 | Blog
I was on Hannah-Beth Jackson's radio show this Saturday discussing two topics: Social Security and the "AmericaSpeaks" events, and the financial reform bill. Here's Part I of the discussion, on Social Security. I'll get the financial reform piece up...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 28, 2010 | Blog
I'm a big Dylan Ratigan fan, and I'm glad we have his voice on the airwaves. That's why it was unexpected to find myself presented as the voice of accommodation in contrast to his angrier tone, when The Huffington Post placed his post on the financial reform bill back...
by Roger Hickey | Jun 27, 2010 | Blog
On Saturday, the group known as America Speaks (funded by Wall Street mogul Peter G. Peterson and two other foundations) brought together several thousand people in meetings in 60 cities. They gave participants misleading background information about the Federal...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 27, 2010 | Blog
Progressives in the U.S. Senate have introduced a potent package of estate tax reforms that would, if enacted, start seriously trimming America's most super-sized hoards of private wealth. Back a hundred summers ago in 1910, former President Theodore Roosevelt —...
