Community groups slam banks, back consumer agency
ST. LOUIS -- Darryl Moore, a local ACORN member, pointed up at the Wells Fargo-Wachovia Securities building here on July 14 and said, 'They're sticking us up. They're using our tax dollars to pay for public relations, lobbying campaigns and TV ads that are against common sense financial reforms.'
Senate committee advances health reform
A public option as part of health reform cleared a major legislative hurdle today, July 15, with passage of the Quality, Affordable Health Coverage for All Americans Act in the Senate HELP Committee. The bill would expand health care coverage for tens of millions of Americans who currently lack insurance and will provide tens of millions more with more choices about which health plan suits them best.
Groups denounce Rush Limbaugh's Sotomayor comments
Rush Limbaugh’s recent comment calling Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor a “racist” and lacking “intellectual depth” is sparking new movements in several places around the country.
REVIEW Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
The magic of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series isn’t so much the actual use of magic—wizards and witches, spells and potions. Instead, what sets her series apart from other, lesser works of fantasy are the deeply progressive, even subversive, messages implicit in the nearly 3,800 pages that comprise the complete series.
Hurt remains after club kicks Black, Latino kids out of pool
PHILADELPHIA — A class action complaint filed in federal court against the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., on behalf of an African American mother charges that her four children and others were denied swimming privileges due to the color of their skin.
EDITORIAL Jobs needed now
President Obama flew to Warren, Mich., July 14, to unveil his plan to pump billions of federal dollars into the nation’s community colleges so they can prepare youth for the “jobs of the future.”
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Community colleges central to Obama's plan for economy
WARREN, Mich. -- President Obama came to Warren, Michigan's third largest city and one that has been hit hard by the loss of auto jobs, to unveil a plan to help the nation’s community colleges.
Smiling Sotomayor rebuts GOP senators
WASHINGTON — Judge Sonia Sotomayor, first Puerto Rican woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that her life story is “uniquely American” and that she now seeks a seat on the nation’s highest court to uphold the U.S. Constitution.
New Haven Board of Aldermen urges Sotomayor confirmation
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The New Haven Board of Aldermen has urged confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. The board's resolution, passed last week, is especially significant as the Republican Party and right-wing seek to use the case of white firefighters here to oppose Sotomayor's appointment and attack affirmative action.
