by Richard Eskow | Feb 16, 2010 | Blog
Mattel makes a little toy called the "Magic 8-Ball." It looks like a pool ball with a little window in it. You shake it and a little answer pops up in the glass. They were a craze in the corporate world a few years back, and you still see lots of them holding down...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 16, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Thanks to the "stimulus plan" and rising demand from infrastructure work, a new steel rolling mill is opening in Youngstown, Ohio. Youngstown area to get 350 more jobs when new steel tube plant opens, The new facility, which will be more than 1 million square-feet,...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 16, 2010 | Blog
When President Obama tried to get a "Buy American" clause as part of the "stimulus package" he was met with howls of protest. Meanwhile China has a "buy Chinese" policy for their own government procurement. The policy includes "intellectual property" so America's...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 16, 2010 | Blog
Oregon Democrats: Taking on Lobbyists? Oregon Democratic legislators seem to be spaking the corporate lobbyists that opposed the successful initiatives that produced vital revenue by raising corporate and top end taxes. The business lobby thinks so – and isn’t that a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 16, 2010 | Blog
Getting health care reform done in 2009 might not have saved the life of Melanie Shouse, who died of breast cancer last month at the age of 41. But what we do know is that the lives of thousands of other women like her are at risk because, one year after Congress and...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 15, 2010 | Blog
I have a regular spot on the radio show, The Fairness Doctrine, currently in Massachusetts but going national. The show has a liberal and a conservative host and they present and discuss differing viewpoints -- without shouting. On the show today we talked about my...
