Dealing for St. Johns Heritage Parkway | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY
www.floridatoday.com/article/20100627/NEWS01/6270324/Dealing-for-St-Johns-Herita...
The most ambitious road-building project for Brevard County in decades so far has little of the right-of-way needed and less than one-fifth of the money to build it.
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AFL-CIO President Trumka at The City Club of Cleveland
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Republicans ‘Scrooge’ Workers, Kill Long-Term Jobless Help
blog.aflcio.org/2010/06/25/republicans-scrooge-workers-kill-long-term-jobless-help/
Republican partisan politics won—and working families lost—again last night when Senate Republicans for the fourth time this year blocked a bill that would revive the extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits program that is the last lifeline for millions of jobless workers.
Les Leopold: Why the Wall Street-BP Double Standard?
www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/why-do-we-treat-wall-stre_b_625286.html
In reality, credit pollutants pose the same kind of threat to our economy as chemical toxins do to our environment. Like their chemical counterparts, they tend to concentrate in the weakest and most vulnerable parts of the financial system, and that's where the toxic effects show up first: the subprime mortgage market collapse is essentially the Love Canal of our ongoing risk-pollution disaster." Eric Janszen, Harper's Magazine, February 2008
Louisiana Wants U.S. Help, and Its Own Way - NYTimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/us/politics/26jindal.html?hp&pagewanted=all
NEW ORLEANS — For weeks, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana has attacked BP and the Coast Guard for not having adequate plans and resources to battle the oil spill.
U.S. scores dead last again in healthcare study | Reuters
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65M0SU20100623?rpc=60
- Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the least equitable system, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Obama Making BP Pay Is Good Government, and That's Why Republicans and the Corporate Media Are Freaking Out | News & Politics | AlterNet
www.alternet.org/news/147325/obama_making_bp_pay_is_good_government,_and_that's_...
Last week, the nation witnessed an act of good governance when the Obama administration put the full-court press on oil giant BP to set aside $20 billion in assets to compensate the thousands of Americans whose livelihoods -- and in some cases, lives -- are being devastated by the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
Florida Republican leaders drawing up Arizona-styled anti-immigrant legislation - St. Petersburg Times
www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/florida-republican-leaders-drawing-u...
Florida Republican leaders have begun crafting anti-illegal-immigrant legislation modeled after an Arizona law that has incited widespread protests and fueled national and international debate over U.S. immigration policies.
Federal News Radio 1500 AM: NLRB's biggest decision lies ahead
www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=15&sid=1988866
More than two years of decision-making went down the drain when the Supreme Court invalidated National Labor Relations Board decisions because the board only had two members. And the board hasn't decided how to deal with the sudden, new backlog. The chair of the NLRB, Wilma Liebman, tells us how things got to be the way they are and how the board is moving forward.
Workers, angry shareholders rock Rite Aid annual meeting | Union Review
unionreview.com/workers-angry-shareholders-rock-rite-aid-annual-meeting
Rite Aid workers from Pennsylvania, New York and California gathered in Harrisburg on June 23 before the company's annual meeting to rally for good jobs and show support for the five year struggle by more than 550 employees to form a union at Rite Aid's massive distribution center in Lancaster, California.
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