SOA Watch meets with White House deputy advisor: Lessons learned
Denis McDonough, deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama, met with a delegation from the SOA Watch movement here Nov. 13.
Lesson for the day – stop Fat Cats from robbing our schools
TIFs - or Tax Increment Financing - is a method powerful financial interests have devised to divert public monies to private coffers.
Bringing Obamacare to life
Health care reform is on track now that President Obama has been reelected, but the struggle to fully implement the ACA is heating up.
Voter suppression scandal rocks Arizona
Unlike other Americans, Arizonans were not able to wake up the next morning to news of the state's election results.
Momentum grows for ending the filibuster
The newly elected, slightly more Democratic U.S. Senate must tackle comprehensive filibuster reform or it will grind to a dead halt again.
CT working families defeat Linda's lies
Connecticut voters smacked down tea party Republican Linda McMahon on Election Day and chose Rep. Chris Murphy to be their new U.S. Senator.
Clergy: "Reject grand bargain, tax the rich"
Federal budget cuts will devastate social programs, "plunge communities into ruin and destruction, and cost lives."
Janitors slated for Christmas layoff swamp City Hall
Hundreds of O'Hare Airport workers slated to lose their jobs just before Christmas marched through City Hall today, chanting and waving banners, flags and signs.
Election Day in California: a bad day for Republicans
Nov. 6 was a very bad day to be a Republican in California.
Sneak attack on financial regulations underway on Capitol Hill
A sneak attack against financial re-regulation - undoing the reforms imposed on Wall Street and similar finaglers after the 2008 crash - is underway on Capitol Hill.
