Mourners stage vigils for miners; Blankenship updates Twitter page
Hundreds of mourners staged candlelight vigils in West Virginia towns the evening of April 7 honoring the 29 coal miners who died in the explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine, Monday April 5, and for the four missing miners.
Megan Fox to governor, “Don’t terminate our teachers”
Megan Fox fights for public education in a great, new video.
Major jobs bill faces GOP filibuster vow
A day after Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., vowed to block all future jobs bills, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights called on members of Congress to co-sponsor the Local Jobs for America Act.
Peace activists say Obama’s nuclear policy a good start
President Obama introduced a new nuclear weapons policy Tuesday with the aim of reducing nuclear weapons and a promise that America would no longer build them.
Federal panel grills Greenspan, Citigroup on predatory lending
The nation's subprime crisis will be in the news from Wednesday to Friday this week as the federal government's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission begins a new round of hearings.
Rallying for more schools, it's a Bronx cheer for Bloomberg
Bronx residents send a message to Bloomberg and the Department of Education: More schools!
Enforcement program blasted as abusive and wasteful
The Department of Homeland Security inspector general released a report last week criticizing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's controversial 287(g) program, which gives state and local law enforcement agencies authority to enforce immigration laws.
Immigrant vets face deportation
Up to 1,000 foreign born veterans, permanent residents, but not yet citizens are sitting in 350 detention centers across the country awaiting deportation.
Finance reform can spur job creation
The nation's labor movement is on target with its point that the risky practices on Wall Street were behind the destruction of 11 million jobs in America.
As flood waters recede, deeper questions emerge
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - As Rhode Islanders recover from the state's worst flooding in 200 years, questions are being raised about why the damage was so great.
