Media has heaviest drinkers, poll finds
Media workers are the heaviest drinking professionals in England, consuming the equivalent of more than four bottles of wine or more than 19 pints of beer a week, according to government research.
The Future of Manufacturing, GM, and American Workers (Part I)
What's the Administration's specific aim in bailing out GM? I'll give you my theory later. For now, though, some background. First and most broadly, it doesn't make sense for America to try to maintain or enlarge manufacturing as a portion of the economy.
Developers feed off agriculture tax breaks
Few would doubt that the 79-acre rectangle of land along Palm Bay Road in West Melbourne is valuable property. For list of benefactors @ http://www.floridatoday.com/assets/pdf/A990560113.PDF
2 Democrats Spearheading Health Bill Are Split
WASHINGTON — A significant split has developed between the two Democratic senators leading efforts to remake the nation’s health care system. They disagree over the contours of a public health insurance plan, the most explosive issue in the debate.
Media has heaviest drinkers, poll finds
The Future of Manufacturing, GM, and American Workers (Part I)
Developers feed off agriculture tax breaks
2 Democrats Spearheading Health Bill Are Split
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Take Action: Tell Bailed-Out Bank to Save Jobs at Hartmarx
Workers at Hart Shaffner Marx (Hartmarx) have made high quality suits for over 100 years, boasting loyal customers like Barack Obama
.A new era for investigating industrial accidents?
You probably have never heard of the Chemical Safety Board (unless you are a specialist in that area — or you read The Pump Handle!). The CSB is an independent government agency that has a pretty low profile. Its mission, as its name implies, is to investigate industrial chemical accidents.
The Health Care Cave-In
Don't make the perfect the enemy of the better" is a favorite slogan in Washington because compromise is necessary to get anything done. But the way things are going with health care, a better admonition would be: "Don't give away the store."
North Carolina's Blue Cross Blue Shield Trying to Kill Key Plank of Obama Plan - Health-Care Reform 2009 -
One week after the nation's health insurance lobby pledged to President Obama to do what it can to constrain rising health costs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is putting the finishing touches on a public message campaign aimed at killing a key plank in Obama's reform platform
Steele decides against District 31 run; Local GOP slams Crist endorsement
A good circus is underway in the tent that is the Brevard County Republican Party.
Local (Bentonville ARK, Heart of Wally World) democrats examine card-check law
BENTONVILLE - Amy Niehouse, a member of the AFLCIO's Organizing Institute and an organizer trainer, discussed a proposed federal law, the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow workers to gain union representation if more than half of a group of employees sign union cards.
Credit card backlash bill comes due in Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to curb sharp practices in the credit card business was on track for approval by the U.S. Senate as early as Tuesday, with President Barack Obama expected to sign it into law before the end of the month.
Painters’ Corporate-Style Annual Reports Keep Union Growing
Over the past four years, Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) President James Williams has taken a page from the playbook of employers and the way they do business. Each year, his staff produces an annual report for the international union and for each of the 34 IUPAT district councils in the United States and Canada that looks like a corporate balance sheet.
Northeast trails Calif., Midwest in race for federal rail funds
WASHINGTON - As the Obama administration prepares to hand out $8 billion in seed money for a national network of fast trains, New England finds itself competing against states and regions that have put far more time and money into planning
Workers at Hart Shaffner Marx (Hartmarx) have made high quality suits for over 100 years, boasting loyal customers like Barack Obama
.A new era for investigating industrial accidents?
You probably have never heard of the Chemical Safety Board (unless you are a specialist in that area — or you read The Pump Handle!). The CSB is an independent government agency that has a pretty low profile. Its mission, as its name implies, is to investigate industrial chemical accidents.
The Health Care Cave-In
Don't make the perfect the enemy of the better" is a favorite slogan in Washington because compromise is necessary to get anything done. But the way things are going with health care, a better admonition would be: "Don't give away the store."
North Carolina's Blue Cross Blue Shield Trying to Kill Key Plank of Obama Plan - Health-Care Reform 2009 -
One week after the nation's health insurance lobby pledged to President Obama to do what it can to constrain rising health costs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is putting the finishing touches on a public message campaign aimed at killing a key plank in Obama's reform platform
Steele decides against District 31 run; Local GOP slams Crist endorsement
A good circus is underway in the tent that is the Brevard County Republican Party.
Local (Bentonville ARK, Heart of Wally World) democrats examine card-check law
BENTONVILLE - Amy Niehouse, a member of the AFLCIO's Organizing Institute and an organizer trainer, discussed a proposed federal law, the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow workers to gain union representation if more than half of a group of employees sign union cards.
Credit card backlash bill comes due in Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to curb sharp practices in the credit card business was on track for approval by the U.S. Senate as early as Tuesday, with President Barack Obama expected to sign it into law before the end of the month.
Painters’ Corporate-Style Annual Reports Keep Union Growing
Over the past four years, Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) President James Williams has taken a page from the playbook of employers and the way they do business. Each year, his staff produces an annual report for the international union and for each of the 34 IUPAT district councils in the United States and Canada that looks like a corporate balance sheet.
Northeast trails Calif., Midwest in race for federal rail funds
WASHINGTON - As the Obama administration prepares to hand out $8 billion in seed money for a national network of fast trains, New England finds itself competing against states and regions that have put far more time and money into planning
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Bankers Bounce Back
There are probably good reasons to give Richard Fuld a job at the hedge fund Matrix Advisors. He is familiar with byzantine financial products: Lehman Brothers, the bank he used to run, gorged on them until it collapsed. He might know them enough to be more careful around them the next time.
Prototype - Coming Soon to Your Language - More of the Web
A Web That Speaks Your Language
Even to Save Cash, Don’t Try This Stuff at Home
CHICAGO — Saving money never cost quite so much.
Why States Need to be a Focus for Any Economic Recovery Plan
We are in what the Center for American Progress has called a "labor market free-fall." The economy shed 524,000 jobs in December, the 12th month in a row of job losses
Restoring Trust in Antitrust Enforcement
Antitrust enforcement is the cornerstone of a competitive marketplace. When that enforcement is docile or misdirected—as it was for much of the Bush administration—consumers suffer. During that administration the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice embraced a minimalist course; it acted largely to reduce the scope of enforcement and the use of antitrust statutes in private litigation.
'A Failure of Capitalism - The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent Into Depression,' by Richard A. Posner
This recession," President Obama said recently, "was not caused by a normal downturn in the business cycle. It was caused by a perfect storm of irresponsibility and poor decision-making that stretched from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street." Richard A. Posner is having none of it.
Dems red-faced over veteran imposter
Democrats are incensed over how a man duped the party and veterans during the '08 campaign.
Some Thoughts on the Lost Art of Reading Aloud
Farms and Immigrants
The immigration system, broken in a thousand places, needs a multitude of fixes, from the borders to the workplace to the status of would-be Americans waiting in limbo overseas and toiling in shadows here. A new bill called AgJobs, introduced in the House and Senate, addresses some of those problems. It seeks to relieve chronic farm labor shortages while protecting rights and opportunities for immigrant workers.
Sunday Funny Papers
How America Lost its Freedom
It’s now clear to most Americans that their country is not only headed in the wrong direction, but on the brink of complete extinction. In just the last six months, every major economic sector is speeding towards bankruptcy and the Fed has spent trillions in printed funny money, in an unbridled and ill-fated effort to buy up (not bail out) America’s free-market economic system, leaving the nation, its currency, its people - and yes - FREEDOM, headed towards imminent total collapse.
There are probably good reasons to give Richard Fuld a job at the hedge fund Matrix Advisors. He is familiar with byzantine financial products: Lehman Brothers, the bank he used to run, gorged on them until it collapsed. He might know them enough to be more careful around them the next time.
Prototype - Coming Soon to Your Language - More of the Web
A Web That Speaks Your Language
Even to Save Cash, Don’t Try This Stuff at Home
CHICAGO — Saving money never cost quite so much.
Why States Need to be a Focus for Any Economic Recovery Plan
We are in what the Center for American Progress has called a "labor market free-fall." The economy shed 524,000 jobs in December, the 12th month in a row of job losses
Restoring Trust in Antitrust Enforcement
Antitrust enforcement is the cornerstone of a competitive marketplace. When that enforcement is docile or misdirected—as it was for much of the Bush administration—consumers suffer. During that administration the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice embraced a minimalist course; it acted largely to reduce the scope of enforcement and the use of antitrust statutes in private litigation.
'A Failure of Capitalism - The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent Into Depression,' by Richard A. Posner
This recession," President Obama said recently, "was not caused by a normal downturn in the business cycle. It was caused by a perfect storm of irresponsibility and poor decision-making that stretched from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street." Richard A. Posner is having none of it.
Dems red-faced over veteran imposter
Democrats are incensed over how a man duped the party and veterans during the '08 campaign.
Some Thoughts on the Lost Art of Reading Aloud
Farms and Immigrants
The immigration system, broken in a thousand places, needs a multitude of fixes, from the borders to the workplace to the status of would-be Americans waiting in limbo overseas and toiling in shadows here. A new bill called AgJobs, introduced in the House and Senate, addresses some of those problems. It seeks to relieve chronic farm labor shortages while protecting rights and opportunities for immigrant workers.
Sunday Funny Papers
How America Lost its Freedom
It’s now clear to most Americans that their country is not only headed in the wrong direction, but on the brink of complete extinction. In just the last six months, every major economic sector is speeding towards bankruptcy and the Fed has spent trillions in printed funny money, in an unbridled and ill-fated effort to buy up (not bail out) America’s free-market economic system, leaving the nation, its currency, its people - and yes - FREEDOM, headed towards imminent total collapse.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Take Action: Join the virtual vigil for heat victim Eladio Hernandez
Fifteen farm workers have died of heat-related complications since July 2004. We will be conducting vigils on the anniversary of each of their deaths--where we will share the worker's story--and invite you to join in virtually by telling legislators and Gov. Schwarzenegger that enough is enough, farm workers need a tool where they can protect themselves.
Memo to Media: Populism Is a Rebellion Against Corporate Power -- It's Not Just Stupid, Raw Anger
When I lived in Washington, DC, in the 1970'S, I got a call from a friend of mine who worked for the Congressional Research Service--a legislative agency that digs up facts, prepares briefing papers, and otherwise does research on any topic requested by members of Congress. Comment Good history piece, they don't teach stories like this in high school.
Something smells at Whole Foods
WHOLE FOODS Market is a highly profitable corporation that far outperforms its competitors, while maintaining an aura of commitment to social justice and environmental responsibility. Its clientele is attracted not only to its brightly lit array of pristine fruits and vegetables, organically farmed meats and delectable (yet healthy) recipes, but also to the notion that the mere act of shopping at Whole Foods is helping to change the world.
Animation: How Not to Form a Union
Hands Off Big Labor
The Obama administration has delivered a strong message to crooked union bosses everywhere: happy days are here again. Comment Nobody read this anyway so I might as well. Author is fear mongering.Florida 2008 property crime rate is 4.029.5 per 100,000. Projecting out Big Labor property crime rate 515 per 100,000 More likely to have a citizen of Florida break into your house than getting mugged by a" Big Labor Union Boss"
Lifestyles of the formerly rich and not that famous
In the genre of sad tales of the formerly rich, Mark Clothier and John Helyar's "Rattled in Ridgewood" story about the tough times faced by laid-off Wall Street workers is a nice piece of work -- empathetic and detailed. And I'm sure Time's Justin Fox is right to observe that "it isn't at all easy to suddenly downshift from [making several hundred thousand dollars a year] to actual middle class America, where the jobs pay $50,000-$100,000 a year (or less)."
State workers could feel new wallop from wage freezes, cuts
For almost three years now, James Okoh has watched his food and utility bills and the price of his work commute all go up — even as his state paycheck stayed flat.
The single-payer challenge
Eight activists stood up in a May 5 Senate hearing chaired by Democratic Sen. Max Baucus to demand to know why Congress won't consider proposals for a single-payer health care system that eliminates the role of private insurance companies and covers everyone under a government program similar to Medicare. Comment Space Coast CLC passed a resolution favoring single payer health care. Does that mean we should be arested?
Sen. Jeff Merkley: Words Designed to Kill Health Care Reform
Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care. That is why Congress and President Obama are so focused on this issue.
Under fire, Space Florida chief Kohler resigns
The embattled head of Space Florida announced his resignation Thursday after recent skirmishes with unhappy legislators and complaints from officials in private industry.
Fifteen farm workers have died of heat-related complications since July 2004. We will be conducting vigils on the anniversary of each of their deaths--where we will share the worker's story--and invite you to join in virtually by telling legislators and Gov. Schwarzenegger that enough is enough, farm workers need a tool where they can protect themselves.
Memo to Media: Populism Is a Rebellion Against Corporate Power -- It's Not Just Stupid, Raw Anger
When I lived in Washington, DC, in the 1970'S, I got a call from a friend of mine who worked for the Congressional Research Service--a legislative agency that digs up facts, prepares briefing papers, and otherwise does research on any topic requested by members of Congress. Comment Good history piece, they don't teach stories like this in high school.
Something smells at Whole Foods
WHOLE FOODS Market is a highly profitable corporation that far outperforms its competitors, while maintaining an aura of commitment to social justice and environmental responsibility. Its clientele is attracted not only to its brightly lit array of pristine fruits and vegetables, organically farmed meats and delectable (yet healthy) recipes, but also to the notion that the mere act of shopping at Whole Foods is helping to change the world.
Animation: How Not to Form a Union
Hands Off Big Labor
The Obama administration has delivered a strong message to crooked union bosses everywhere: happy days are here again. Comment Nobody read this anyway so I might as well. Author is fear mongering.Florida 2008 property crime rate is 4.029.5 per 100,000. Projecting out Big Labor property crime rate 515 per 100,000 More likely to have a citizen of Florida break into your house than getting mugged by a" Big Labor Union Boss"
Lifestyles of the formerly rich and not that famous
In the genre of sad tales of the formerly rich, Mark Clothier and John Helyar's "Rattled in Ridgewood" story about the tough times faced by laid-off Wall Street workers is a nice piece of work -- empathetic and detailed. And I'm sure Time's Justin Fox is right to observe that "it isn't at all easy to suddenly downshift from [making several hundred thousand dollars a year] to actual middle class America, where the jobs pay $50,000-$100,000 a year (or less)."
State workers could feel new wallop from wage freezes, cuts
For almost three years now, James Okoh has watched his food and utility bills and the price of his work commute all go up — even as his state paycheck stayed flat.
The single-payer challenge
Eight activists stood up in a May 5 Senate hearing chaired by Democratic Sen. Max Baucus to demand to know why Congress won't consider proposals for a single-payer health care system that eliminates the role of private insurance companies and covers everyone under a government program similar to Medicare. Comment Space Coast CLC passed a resolution favoring single payer health care. Does that mean we should be arested?
Sen. Jeff Merkley: Words Designed to Kill Health Care Reform
Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care. That is why Congress and President Obama are so focused on this issue.
Under fire, Space Florida chief Kohler resigns
The embattled head of Space Florida announced his resignation Thursday after recent skirmishes with unhappy legislators and complaints from officials in private industry.
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