The failure to listen to failures.
Over the past several weeks, there has been no shortage of information on education or education reform to write about. The daunting part might just be wading through all of the opinions and finding...
View ArticleKat's Obama Administration Report, 3/4/11
Hi, all. Today's report features: West Wing Week: President Obama welcomed the nation's governors, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and Mexican President Felipe Calderón to the White House. The...
View ArticleKasich to Ohio: 'Get on the Bus, or get Run over ...'
Kasich tried to ban the media and the public from his inauguration. He has warned opponents that they had better "get on the bus or get run over by the bus." [...] Polls are showing overwhelming...
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Pink Clubhouse...Awake, thou wintry earth
Awake, thou wintry earth - Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth...
View ArticleRep. Tim Ryan rips Ohio's anti-worker SB5
Representative Tim Ryan (OH-17) gives a truly impassioned speech on the floor of the US House against Ohio's anti-worker bill, SB5. The bill is moving forward in Ohio, but it's important that eloquent...
View ArticleMichigan Republicans Attempt to Strip Domestic Partner Benefits From Public...
Cross-posted at Pam's House Blend. This is why we need collective bargaining. The Senate Committee on Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing approved a resolution Wednesday morning that starts the...
View ArticleThey did not see it coming in Germany either. Stand up for you rights now...
When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. Sinclair Lewis, 1935 http://i895.photobucket.com/... I am tired of seeing stories of anti-Muslim attacks. It seems...
View ArticleGOP budget plan will kill Michigan's workforce development agency
Michigan's workforce development agency, Michigan Works!, will close its doors if a Republican budget plan passed by the US House of Representatives this week is made into law.
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Ohio Unions shift focus, plan referendum to stop SB5
Photo by Plunderbund It looks like Wisconsin won't be the only state with dramatic elections to settle a fight over collective bargaining rights this year. Now that the Ohio state Senate has approved...
View ArticleAsk Not for whom the Toll Booth-taker toils, because soon they'll Toil, No More.
No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, ... -- John Donne N.J. officials not ready to privatize state...
View ArticleGovernor Snyder: Taxing pensions to fund corporate tax cuts
Michigan is facing a 1.4 billion dollar budget shortfall. To fix that shortfall, Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder is going to DECREASE taxes for large businesses to add another 1 billion dollars to...
View ArticleOhio’s Union Busting University Presidents : Hiding Behind Yeshiva (and Bruce...
While a significant amount of attention has been focused on the efforts to eliminate collective bargaining for public employees in Wisconsin, Ohio has received little attention. My own, unscientific,...
View ArticleAmerica Will Never Recover Until Wall St. Is Prosecuted
For the past few years I've taken a great deal of time studying the catastrophic effects on our nation and the world at large due to the Great Heist of 2008. The economic factors are only one...
View ArticleYesterday, and Tomorrow
The extraordinary events in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are the initial high tides of an eventual tsunami that will impact the world that globalists have so fervently promoted for decades, in ways not...
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Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Solidarity against Austerity edition)
Welcome to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment. This week's featured story comes from...
View ArticlePromises, And Pursuing Justice
I've written a lot about my friend Will, who died on October 6, 2010. "Friend" is such a nondescript word, overused, vague. It means everything, and nothing, and I am not sure it's the right one...
View ArticleWearing red and steaming mad.
This Tuesday I will be wearing red, as I have (every Tuesday) since January 4th. This is part of a growing number of movements to raise awareness for public schools. See SOS March (teacherken wrote...
View ArticleWho is this Claude R. Lambe?
It probably comes as no surprise to you to find out that the Koch Brothers have a vested-interest in opposing meaningful Climate Change legislation -- But did you know that the energy-barron Koch...
View ArticlePrivatization is "cheaper" -- For Whom, exactly?
I've been a public worker. I've been a corporate cog. I've been a corporate cog, "on loan" to perform public service, in the "most expedient way" possible. A "stand-in" for a Public worker. Paid by...
View ArticleFive anti-choice strategies that will set women back
While the fight rages on (solidarity, WI!), a lesser-known but just as coordinated, pervasive attack is raging against women’s rights. For years, the anti-choice movement has been sending up test...
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