by Bill Scher | Jul 25, 2008 | Blog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....
by Bill Scher | Jul 25, 2008 | Blog
As a good liberal returning today from a vacation in Canada, I’m supposed to report back on the awesomeness of Canada for its health care. But I will not. Instead, I report to you about Canada's perverse attitude about Arctic oil drilling. As The Globe and Mail...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 24, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The second of three annual minimum-wage increases enacted by Congress goes into effect today, raising the wage floor to $6.55 an hour. Late Wednesday the Campaign for America's Future focused on this positive development for workers in its latest issue alert. As we...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 23, 2008 | Blog
By the time a good idea makes it to Congress — and actually gets some serious consideration — it is no longer an idea whose time has come, but one whose time is way overdue. Such is the case as Congress takes up the issue of CEO pay, while staring in the...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 23, 2008 | Blog
Now we're in the presidential campaign's silly season. The primaries are over; the conventions yet to come. Americans are tuning out politics and dialing in baseball and the Olympics, vacations and the price of gas. Senator Barack Obama is traveling abroad,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 22, 2008 | Blog
The health insurance industry is launching a public relations and lobbying campaign today that is designed to convince people that they are on the side of reform even as they support a status-quo solution suspiciously similar to one pushed by Sen. John McCain and...
