By Robert Cruickshank
Over at his blog, Alon Levy has an interesting post calling for more democracy in the planning and authorization of transportation infrastructure. Levy points to Switzerland as an example of a political system where transportation…
By Robert Reich
The West Texas chemical and fertilizer plant where at least 15 were killed and more than 200 injured a few weeks ago hadn’t been fully inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1985. (A partial inspection in 2…
By Chuck Idelson
National Nurses United
They came, they danced, they marched, 2,000 people spirited and strong, Robin Hood’s merry band of men and women, through the streets of Washington April 20.
Ending up astride a prominent government building, chr…
Senator Pat Toomey discusses an alternative to the sequester’s across the board cuts. “When you have to cut spending it makes sense to cut in the least painful way rather than an arbitrary across the board way.” -Toomey Link
By Robert Reich
We’re one week away from a massive cut in federal spending – cuts that will hurt millions of lower-income Americans who’ll lose nutrition assistance, housing, and money for their schools, among other things; that will furlough or lay of…
By Robert Cruickshank
Last week’s big news was the announcement from Governor Jerry Brown that the state budget is out of perennial deficit and looking at several years of surpluses. We’ll talk more about what those surpluses mean and how they ought to…
By Rev. Jim Conn
“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.”
Those are the opening lines from the Christmas story according to St. Luke, as written down by the team of sch…