WHERE ARE SEATTLE KIDS GOING TO FIND A 38-FOOT HIGH DIVING PLATFORM WHEN THE “RAMPS TO NOWHERE” ARE TORN DOWN? Ramps connected to the Route 520 highway have been abandoned for 40 or more years when plans to make various connections to the road were dropped after citizen protests. One of these will [...]
IS PRESIDENT OBAMA PLAYING ELECTION YEAR POLITICS WITH YOUNG AND AMBITIOUS “ILLEGAL” IMMIGRANTS? In the razor-thin margins that will likely decide this year’s presidential election, both sides are going after every last possible vote in a bid to seize the White House. Due to their booming population and heavy concentrations in so-called “swing states” [...]
Washington gridlock and presidential politics are combining to cripple the nascent sector of wind energy in the United States, leaving the country lagging behind nearly every other industrialized nation and a key source of renewable energy on the brink of deep cuts even as fossil fuels receive billions in taxpayer subsidies. The fight over wind [...]
THE COLD DATA OF GLOBALIZATION HITS AMERICAN WORKERS; HARD. (Huffington Post) A government report finds that American multinational corporations, which employ a significant chunk of the American workforce and for years have been the engine behind job growth in the United States, have made a dramatic shift in employment patterns that is shipping a massive [...]
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