by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2014 | Blog
The State Department released an environmental impact report Friday saying, according to The Washington Post, "the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would be unlikely to alter global greenhouse gas emissions." The report triggered more than 275 protests in towns and...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 4, 2014 | Blog
For decades, college football players absorbed some pretty cheap shots from their schools and the NCAA. These athletes knew it wasn’t right that universities rescinded academic scholarships and refused to cover medical treatment for players permanently injured in...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 31, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Nothing drives conservatives around the bend like a speech by Barack Obama. So, thanks to the president’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, there’s no shortage of wingnuttery this week. A Grimm Encounter The most unhinged moment on the right this week was when...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 30, 2014 | Blog
Today, January 30, is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s birthday. In a week of mourning for Pete Seeger, that’s a good time to remember what Pete’s friend Woody Guthrie had to say in song about FDR: “This world was lucky to see him born.” The White House website’s biography of...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 29, 2014 | Blog
In a State of the Union address that lasted over an hour, President Obama called on Congress to raise the minimum wage, announced he would act immediately by issuing an executive order to lift the lowest wages of government contract workers, and urged companies to...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 28, 2014 | Blog
President Obama will announce tonight that he is delivering a big raise to more than a million low-wage employees of federal contractors. He is issuing an executive order that will require workers under new contracts to be paid a minimum of $10.10 an hour (or higher...
