January 2004 Page

January 31, 2004
  • Cali AG Sues Supermarkets - Attorney General to File Antitrust Suit against the supermarkets conspiring to share resources to lockout their workers: The state attorney... MORE...

    January 30, 2004
  • Women Losing Rights in Iraq - So much for the wonders of "liberation": During my five weeks "in country" this fall, I witnessed a social, political... MORE...
  • Veterans to Lose Overtime Pay - Bush really hates veterans, or is just really politically stupid. Apparently, one provision of his assault on overtime pay is... MORE...
  • Is Growth Real? 4% in 4Q but... - Well, you had 4% GDP Growth in 4th Quarter but... The nation's payrolls grew by a scant 1,000 jobs in... MORE...
  • Medicare Bill Projected Costs Up - Instead of $400 billion, the Medicare Drug bill is projected to cost $520 billion over ten years. Which is a... MORE...
  • NYC Housing Boom- Zoning to Kill It? - While Manhattan mostly is building luxury housing, a boom in middle class housing construction is sweeping the outer boroughs. Six... MORE...

    January 28, 2004
  • Affirmative Action v. Budget Cuts - To deal with the budget crisis in California due to Republican refusal to raise taxes, 20,000 students who are qualified... MORE...

    January 25, 2004
  • One Reason to Like Kerry - Update: Finally got a graphic that's stable-- which shows Kerry being arrested back in the early 1970s in a protest... MORE...

    January 23, 2004
  • Why Prison Guard Union Might Take Pay Cut - Okay, if you know anything about California, you know that the state correctional officer union is a heavy-duty political player.... MORE...
  • Senate: Corruption in Govt-Medical Dealings - Want to be scared that the drugs you take are useless or worse? Look at the financial payoffs government and... MORE...

    January 22, 2004
  • Rightwing Trashes SOTU - A lot of discontent on Bush's pandering on budget issues-- making noises about fiscal discipline while handing out goodies to... MORE...
  • FBI & ACLU: Together v. Internet Deregulation - This is a story of how the Bush regime's deregulatory impulses are being undercut by its anti-terrorism police state tactics.... MORE...

    January 21, 2004
  • Bush Promises $200 Billion Plus Deficits - I missed this one from Bush's speech, but USATODAY points out: What Bush said: If Congress will "focus on priorities"... MORE...
  • Bush Savings Accounts- Theft from Future - For pure intergenerational assault, it's hard to beat Bush's proposed expanded savings accounts. The idea is to build on the... MORE...

    January 20, 2004
  • SEIU Launches Blog - Here is a fun and interesting addition to the blogosphere-- the first official union blog, called Blog for the Future... MORE...
  • Why Labor Did Not Lose in Iowa - I was going to write something on this, but Jordan Barab said most of what I would have over in... MORE...
  • Is Dean's Organization Irrelevent? - Tom Schaller over at Daily Kos analyzes in depth why Dean's organization failed in Iowa. The bottom line was that... MORE...

    January 19, 2004
  • Congrats to Kerry - You gotta love politics-- there are always surprises, especially in multi-candidate primary races. Kerry's big win doesn't make me unhappy--... MORE...
  • Myth of Declining Voter Turnout - TAPPED has a post pooh-poohing the idea that Howard Dean, or any Democratic candidate, can succeed by expanding voter turnout.... MORE...

    January 18, 2004
  • US Iraq Death Toll Passes 500 - Here.... MORE...
  • How Taxes Change Pre-Tax Inequality - Matthew Y makes a really smart point on why tax policy matters, not just in redistributing income but in changing... MORE...
  • Dubya- Higher Disapprove than Dad/Carter 80 - In the new CBS News/NY Times poll, the remarkable number is how high Bush's disapproval numbers are given historical standards:... MORE...

    January 16, 2004
  • Kerry Comeback? - Kerry is actually leading in Iowa in some polls. This actually makes me happy, since I've always liked Kerry best... MORE...

    January 12, 2004
  • Mexican Opposition Denounces Bush-Fox Immigration Plan - It's hardly surprising that businessman Vincente Fox and businessman George Bush love the idea of giving US business an indentured... MORE...
  • The O'Neill "Revelations": What is New? - Okay, what's new is that a former Cabinet member is saying that Bush is a liar and completely directed by... MORE...

    January 07, 2004
  • NCLR Blasts Bush Immigration Proposal - The National Council of La Raza today blasted Bush's guest worker proposal, seeing it as a major betrayal of promises... MORE...

    January 06, 2004
  • Tutor - Tutor Tutor Tutor New York City New York City New York City... MORE...
  • Why Dean Will Crush Bush - That's the title of this diary entry at Kos, but it's a compelling breakdown of the location of Dean "Meetup"... MORE...

    January 04, 2004
  • Atrios, Matt Y and I Agree - Height restrictions suck and cut down on the supply of housing in urban areas like New York City. See Atrios... MORE...
  • Light Posting - Hey folks-- light blogging for this coming week since I had eye surgery -- nothing horrible, just the cool laser... MORE...
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    February 21, 2007
  • Amnesia on the Death of Reconstruction - I am going to pick on Brad Delong precisely because he is a brilliant and well-educated academic-- and his list... MORE...

    February 18, 2007
  • So What if Mitt Wants A Person of Faith as President? - There's a bit of a furor that Mitt Romney declared:We need to have a person of fiath lead the country.So... MORE...

    February 16, 2007
  • States Taking Action Against Iraq Escalation - So the New York Times is covering the story that resolutions denouncing Bush's Iraq Escalation have been introduced in over... MORE...

    January 01, 2007
  • Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in... MORE...

    December 22, 2006
  • Dems' Stupid Positioning on Minimum Wage - As a followup to discussing why politicians need to appeal to a broad consensus, it's worth emphasizing that it's easier... MORE...

    December 21, 2006
  • Obama and the Need for Large Progressive Majorities - I've been as disappointed as many other progressive bloggers with Obama's bad votes on tort reform and seeming trimming of... MORE...

    December 13, 2006
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    November 27, 2006
  • Ecuador Goes Left - Another country moves left-- whatever you want to say, Bush has been very good for reviving the global left, especially... MORE...
  • Building a Progressive Majority in the Statehouses - The Progressive States Network today rolled out its legislative agenda for the 2007 session and is looking to promote it... MORE...

    November 13, 2006
  • The Future Belongs to US - While the actual results seem razer-thin in this election, I'll be bold and argue that they are part of a... MORE...

    November 11, 2006
  • Pro-Labor "Conservative Democrats" - One more nail in the narrative that the victory of a few moderate Democrats means this election is really a... MORE...

    November 10, 2006
  • The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus... MORE...

    November 08, 2006
  • A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no... MORE...

    November 01, 2006
  • Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power.... MORE...

    October 19, 2006
  • Immigrant Poor Send More Foreign Aid than US Govt - The United States government spends less money on foreign aid as a percentage of its budget than almost any other... MORE...

    October 17, 2006
  • - Valuing Families:  State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look... MORE...

    October 09, 2006
  • Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be... MORE...

    October 03, 2006
  • Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6... MORE...

    September 27, 2006
  • Civil War on the Right- Dick Armey trashes Dobson - The economic business- right and the religious right are moving towards total civil war. This piece by former GOP Majority... MORE...

    September 24, 2006
  • Allen the Racist - Three college teammates confirm that George Allen regularly used the N- word: Allen said he came to Virginia because he... MORE...