April 28, 2006 -
In just three days -- Monday, May 1 -- something very big is going to happen across the country. Building on the massive immigrant rights protests of the past two months, hundreds of thousands of workers (maybe more) are going to join the Great American Boycott.
April 28, 2006 -
The scandal season is still in full bloom, claiming ethically challenged lawmakers across the political aisle. Two recent items of a Southern flavor (hat tip to TPM Muckraker):
April 28, 2006 -
Over at TAPPED, Matthew Yglesias notes a recent report by the Congressional Research Service (covered in the Washington Post) analyzing spending for the Iraq war. Apparently it's a slow read until the end:
April 27, 2006 -
Congress has refused to increase the minimum wage in over a decade, even though the value of the minimum wage, thanks to inflation, is 24% less than it was in 1979, and 7.3 million workers would benefit from an increase.
April 27, 2006 -
By most accounts Tony Snow is an upbeat, can-do sort of guy. He'll need to be as he steps into the position of White House press secretary, at a time when, as a local columnist writes, the administration is desperate to "turn around approval ratings that now are just above chicken pox."Snow got his start in the media in North Carolina, and a piece in a Raleigh News & Observer today is peppered with quotes about him being "classy," "generous," and "good-natured." There was this interesting reference to his politics:
April 26, 2006 -
Back in January, we exposed how Mississippi-based defense contractor Northrop Grumman was making out in the wake of Katrina.
April 26, 2006 -
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