By Randy Shaw
In The Unwinding, New Yorker political writer George Packer argues that elite-driven economic policies have negatively “unwound” the lives of millions of Americans. This view is hardly uncommon, yet the June 9, 2013 Sunday New York Times …
By Randy Shaw
Eric Garcetti has won a 53%-46% victory in the Los Angeles mayor’s race following a tough campaign against Wendy Greuel. Greuel sought to become the city’s first female mayor, but was a bland candidate from the Valley who failed to energi…
By Randy Shaw
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is moving to chop down 22,000 trees in Berkeley’s historic Strawberry and Claremont Canyons and over 60,000 more in Oakland. This destructive plan is rapidly moving forward with little public…
By Randy Shaw
NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd has never liked Barack Obama, so it was fitting that she blamed him for the Senate’s failure to break a GOP-led filibuster on gun control bills. According to Dowd, Obama “doesn’t know how to work the system…
By Randy Shaw
NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd has never liked Barack Obama, so it was fitting that she blamed him for the Senate’s failure to break a GOP-led filibuster on gun control bills. According to Dowd, Obama “doesn’t know how to work the system…
By Randy Shaw
In the past month, 1. Los Angeles voters overwhelmingly rejected a billionaire-backed school board candidate seeking to shift control of the district to anti-union forces; 2. Thirty-five Atlanta educators, including a close ally of promin…
By Randy Shaw
President Obama’s second inaugural address struck a populist tone, but the real news for progressives came last Friday when it was announced that Obama’s campaign organization would continue under a new name, Organizing for Action. Headed…