Paul Krugman provides some perspective on the plight of those who saw Obama as a stronger progressive than he has thus far proven to be. Money quote:
But back to Obama: the important thing to bear in mind is that this isnt about him; and, equally important, it isnt about [...]
Democratic districts have received nearly twice as much stimulus money as Republican districts and the cash has been awarded without regard to how badly an area was suffering from job losses, according to a new study. “You would think that if the stimulus money was actually spent to [...]
Political junkie that I am, sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode from WTF craziness.
"I can't support the health care bill because it doesn't reduce costs enough," says one Senator -- who vigorously opposed the public option that would have saved Americans lots of money.
Thankfully, [...]
By Dave Anderson:
Changing policy to benefit entrenched, well-connected and well-funded interests is easy. That is the basic story behind Bush's tax-cuts. He wanted to give money to the well-connected and the elite. They were willing to take the money and to use their access and power to convince people that [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
With apologies to Pastor Niemöller:
First they came for the banksters, and showered them with money and put them in the Administration in a way that was not change we could believe in.
Then they came for the military industrial complex, and sent more and more of our children [...]
By BJ Bjornson
Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept [...]
Here’s an excellent interview with best-selling economics author Niall Ferguson conducted by Consuelo Mack:
[...]As we wind down 2009, it's time to talk about that uncouth topic: money.
Portland Transport is run on the cheap, so our needs are minor, but they're not zero. Equally important the IRS wants to see that we have a diversity of supporters to let us keep our 501(c)(3) status.
So' [...]
After all, they've done such a great job of managing money for the trust funds of American Indians.
Federal Indian law — or the law pertaining to the land and other holdings owned by Native Americans — isn’t a typical area of coverage for us. But when a lawsuit between' [...]
(With all love to Tennessee Ernie Ford)
All Dan Benjamin wants is his money.Benjamin, a contractor who owns Sundance Contracting, did some work in 2006 and 2007 for Michelle Wu, wife of Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) and then an interior decorator on Capitol Hill.
Benjamin, who has done work for [...]
Politico has an item on a recent awkward "no comment" moment from Oregon politics:
All Dan Benjamin wants is his money.
Benjamin, a contractor who owns Sundance Contracting, did some work in 2006 and 2007 for Michelle Wu, wife [...]
Big Pipe Saltzman is going to have his hands full in the new year. Now he's got four people running to dethrone him from the Portland City Council, and the latest one to throw her hat into the ring may give him a real run for his family's money.
It [...] Voting unanimously to renew their contract with Columbia River Correctional Institute, the Council has agreed to continue to use prison inmate labor to clear brush, clean up vagrant camps, and perform other tasks in city parks. The total cost works out to about $15 per hour per supervised worker, although [...]
I talked with state Sens. Frank [...]
Back in the 1970s there was an end of the world cult that had gained some recognition, mainly, I think, because they had actually predicted a specific date for the end of the world and were not asking their members to give all their money to [...] 
While much has been made by the left regarding the relatively small amounts of money that some corporations have paid for scientific studies, they continually overlook the monumental amounts of cash...
On Carla's post yesterday about the so-called "job-killing taxes", a commenter (Bob Wiggins) marched out a tried-and-true line to attack the measures.
Whether or not this particular business will be hurt seems less important than the fact that these tax measures together will suck [...]I heard a brief mention this afternoon that Phil Jones may step down as head of CRU, pending investigation into his activities regarding the "Anthropogenic Global Warming" meltdown.
It looks as though he has. And apparently, Penn State grant-money rainmaker Mike Mann is also now under investigation for his role in [...]
Via Congressman Blumenaur's Office:
Secretary LaHood announced today that the FTA will make $280M available for competitive grants for urban circulator's (they don't have to be Streetcars, but...) as part of the administrations urban livability initiative.
A big chunk of the money is previously allocated transit dollars the Bush Administrative never' [...]
On Sunday Paul Krugman made the idiotic statement that there was "tremendously more money" to be made by being a skeptic of Man-Made-Global-Warming than there is in the church of MMGW. A complete...
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