Sea Stories and Other Dirty Lies, Movie Review: In the Loop
I am grateful to the British facility with language for not having any tattoos anywhere on my skin, and for one of the best movies of recent times.
NC Racial Justice Act passes, awaits governor's signature
The North Carolina Racial Justice Act passed in the state Senate this week and now heads to Gov. Bev Perdue for her signature.
Celebrating Justice Sotomayor
Something historic happened today, Aug. 8. The first Latina, and only third woman, justice of the Supreme Court was sworn into office. And people celebrated, despite every attempt to drag Justice Sonia Sotomayor through the mud.
Native Americans celebrate history, struggle in northwest
'Paddle to Suquamish” Aug. 1-11 was a dramatic sign that the Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest are in the midst of a cultural reawakening. Participation continues to grow 20 years after “Paddle to Seattle,” the first tribal canoe journey in 1989 commemorating the 100 anniversary of the founding of Seattle. This year, delegations of Native Hawaiians, and Maoris from New Zealand joined “Paddle to Suquamish.”
Legislative leader to sue Calif. governor over cuts
California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, announced Aug. 7 that he will sue Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over nearly $500 million in line-item cuts the governor made last week in signing a budget revision bill that had already made huge cuts mostly to human needs programs.
Economy on verge of new foreclosure crisis
Signaling continued economic distress, Deutsche Bank estimated today that over 50 percent of mortgage holders may owe more than their homes are worth. Already 25 percent of mortgages are now “underwater.” “The percentage of “underwater” loans may rise to 48 percent, or 25 million homes, as prices drop through the first quarter of 2011,” Bloomberg News reported.
Hiroshima mayor calls for no nukes
Hiroshima's mayor has urged global leaders to back President Barack Obama's call to abolish nuclear weapons as Japan marked the 64th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.
AFL-CIO blasts 'corporate mobs' at recess town hall meetings
The AFL-CIO has called on its union affiliates to defend lawmakers’ health care reform town hall meetings from “Corporate…mob rule” in recent days.
Budd Schulberg, screenwriter who named names, could have been a contender
Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg passed away Wednesday at the age of 95, and the press is filled with obituaries noting his work and commenting on his most famous off-screen moment — as a 'friendly witness' before the House Un-American Activities Committee 'naming names' in the early 1950s.
Judges order big cut in California prison population
Saying that jamming more than 150,000 inmates into facilities designed for just over half that number has resulted in health care so poor it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, a panel of three federal judges Aug. 4 ordered California to slash its prison population by more than a quarter over a two-year period.
