from the LA Times
On Tuesday night, a triumphant Gov Jerry Brown told supporters in Sacramento that his tax-hike measure was a “unifying force.” Californians were coming together, he said, to support schools and patch the state budget…
Nov 092012
Nov 082012
from Global News
OTTAWA — New Democrats are suggesting an anti-organized labour group is the "true architect" of a Conservative MP’s private member’s bill that will lead to enormous increases in union dues and very likely kill many unions.
Nov 082012
Nov 072012
from Mother Jones
Colorado on Tuesday night became the first state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana, beating out Washington by about an hour…
Nov 072012
from The New York Times
Democrats began the year with deep pockets and a plan to focus on scores of Republican freshmen, particularly those with a Tea Party imprimatur, in an effort to retake the House after losing it in 2010. But in the first Congressional election since decennial redistricting, Republicans — thanks to their control of many state legislatures — managed to shore up many incumbents by fashioning districts that Democrats had little chance of capturing.
Retirements by a large number of Democratic members, and a message on Medicare that more or less fizzled, were additional impediments. Blue Dog Democrats, a group of moderates whose numbers have been dwindling, were particularly endangered as they struggled to defend districts they had long held….
Nov 062012
from Al Jazeera
Companies offer five percent deal in a bid to thwart spread of wildcat mines into the coal sector….
Nov 032012
from The New York Times
…Perhaps more so than in any other place in the city, the loss of power for people living in public housing projects forced a return to a primal existence. Opened fire hydrants became community wells. Sleep-and-wake cycles were timed to sunsets and sunrises. People huddled for warmth around lighted gas stoves as if they were roaring fires. Darkness became menacing, a thing to be feared…
Nov 032012
from The Telegraph
Fascist gangs are turning Athens into a city of shifting front lines, seizing on crimes and local protests to promote their own movement, by claiming to be the defenders of recession ravaged Greece.
Nov 022012
from The New York Times
Analysis shows Obama staunched the bleeding and has rebounded slightly in states that matter most to the all-important Electoral College count.
Oct 312012
from CNN
We should not be surprised. That's the view of many climate scientists as they survey the destruction wrought by the superstorm that ravaged the Northeast this week. The melting of Arctic ice, rising sea levels, the warming atmosphere and changes to weather patterns are a potent combination likely to produce storms and tidal surges of unprecedented intensity, according to many experts…