by Dave Johnson | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
After having stated she is against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and opposes a lame-duck vote on that agreement after the election, President Obama on Thursday endorsed his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, in her bid for the presidency. Then the...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog, Education
High school graduation season is in full bloom in many communities around the nation, but in some places, parents with children still in schools have to be worried about the conditions of the schools they'll return to in the fall – or even if the schools will open at...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 9, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
[fve]https://youtu.be/oUW7n6X5krM[/fve] Senate Democrats are planning to roll out a package of moderately incremental campaign finance proposals they call the "We the People" plan. They hope to take this plan to the public during campaign season this Fall. The New...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 9, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
This week more than 450 organizations joined to ask Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) because of provisions that would allow corporations to sue governments over laws and regulations that might restrict their profits. The groups are concerned that...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
Are you tired of all the nasty, hit-piece, smear ads and mailings against candidates for pubic office that we have to put up with? The way things are set up, we don't even get to know who paid for them. In January President Obama said in the State of the Union...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Hillary Clinton became the “presumptive nominee” of the Democratic Party Tuesday night, and will be the first woman ever to win the presidential nomination of a major party. Clinton won primaries in New Jersey, New Mexico and California, the large states at issue. She...
