The popular protests that began last month in lower Manhattan before spreading across the country have generally been characterized, at least in the media’s short-hand, as “anti-Wall Street” — driven by anger about the financial industry recklessness and greed that helped tank the economy. Given the “Occupy Wall Street” name, and the site of the
Continue reading …The popular protests that began last month in lower Manhattan before spreading across the country have generally been characterized, at least in the media’s short-hand, as “anti-Wall Street” — driven by anger about the financial industry recklessness and greed that helped tank the economy. Given the “Occupy Wall Street” name, and the site of the
Continue reading …The Topeka City Council voted to decriminalize domestic battery and other misdemeanors Tuesday night. The vote was a bid to get the county district attorney to back down from his decision not to prosecute those crimes anymore. Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor announced abruptly last month that due to budget cuts, he would stop
Continue reading …When President Obama announced his jobs plan last month, few observers expected it to pass Congress in its entirety. And now that’s looking all but official. Senate Republicans last night filibustered an effort to begin debate on the bill. That means that the measure failed, even though it had the support of a majority of
Continue reading …There’s a 40 percent chance that the United States will fall into a double-dip recession in the next year, a top economic forecaster says. The economy is facing pressure from the European debt crisis, the weak housing market, and Washington dysfunction, according to a Moody’s Analytics report released Tuesday. The report comes bearing the grim
Continue reading …A government informant posing as a member of the feared Zetas drug cartel in Mexico helped foil an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States on American soil, the Justice Department says. The informant “posed as an associate of a sophisticated and violent international drug trafficking cartel” who was willing
Continue reading …A government informant posing as a member of the feared Zetas drug cartel in Mexico helped foil an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States on American soil, the Justice Department says. The informant “posed as an associate of a sophisticated and violent international drug trafficking cartel” who was willing
Continue reading …A government informant posing as a member of the feared Zetas drug cartel in Mexico helped foil an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States on American soil, the Justice Department says. The informant “posed as an associate of a sophisticated and violent international drug trafficking cartel” who was willing
Continue reading …A bruising fight over unions’ collective bargaining rights in Ohio just got a little uglier. A great-grandmother and Cincinnati resident says she feels “violated” after a group that supports ending collective bargaining rights for unions stole her appearance in a pro-union ad to make it seem as if she supported their side of the issue. Marlene Quinn
Continue reading …The American economy isn’t just going through a weak patch–it’s mired in a “Lesser Depression” that poses a challenge more daunting than at any since the crisis of the 1930s, according to a major new study released Wednesday. The provisions in President Obama’s jobs plan are no more likely to be effective at producing a
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