The most sensible job creation program comes from the AFL-CIO and a coalition of civil rights and other organizations
By Dick Meister
(Dick Meister has covered labor and politics for a half-century as a reporter, editor, author and commentator.)
Of all the ideas out there on how to [...]
J. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. This column is from the Project Syndicate news series.
Why Are Good Policies Bad Politics?
By J. Bradford DeLong
BERKELEY – From the day after [...]
Scroll down for an excellent analysis of Obama's predicament by Center for American Progress.
I find most troubling President Obama's statement that the Bush administration didn't have the resources nor the
strategy in Afghanistan and that he will now finish the job.
I also find most troubling that his generals' [...]
It's time to quit with the patches, quit with the one-time solutions and fee hikes
EDITORIAL Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff, likes to say that politicians should never let a crisis go to waste — but that's what happened in San Francisco last summer, when the mayor and [...]
As small business people know, the Obama administration has spent its capital largely on Wall Street and neglected the real job creation engine of the U.S. economy: small business and loans to small business.
Scott Hauge, president of Small Business California and the Paul Revere of small business, has put [...]
GOP Candidate, pushed by right, ends upstate bid
--The New York Times
The GOP's chief commissars had heard
That there was trouble in the 23rd:
Though every county chairman there had voted
For Dede Scozzafava, it was noted
That she, though certainly a high achiever,
Was not, in fact, a zealous true believer.
If any of the [...]
The Center for American Progress reports that weakness in the labor market is threatening the fledgling economic recovery. Policy should center on creating jobs to boost U.S. middle class economic security and help those who are most vulnerable.
Friday, November 20, 2009
By Christian E. Weller
(The Center for American [...]
U.S. WILL ORDER PAY CUTS AT
FIRMS WITH BAILOUT AID
--The New York Times
The government has moved to intervene
To make the pay scale slightly less obscene.
The Wall Street types consider this unfair.
Tney say they earned their money fair and square,
And 20 million, say, is only middling
For someone who's so good at [...]
San Francisco has long operated under the proposition that civilians, not police officers, should conduct investigations of complaints against cops
Editorial: San Francisco's new police chief wants more authority to discipline problem officers. He's been talking about it since the day he arrived, and he's getting some political [...]
Joe Hill told his IWW comrades just before he stepped in front of the firing squad, "Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize."
By Dick Meister
(Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor, politics and other matters for a' [...]
California Democratic Party sends a clear message to President Obama. Stop making war in Afghanistan. Will he get the message?
By Norman Solomon
(Norman Solomon is co-chair of the national Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign, launched by Progressive Democrats of America. He is the author of a dozen books including “War [...]
It was 20 years ago this month when the "Velvet Revolution" erupted in Czechoslovakia and
Eastern Europe
By Dick Meister
It’s a time of celebration in Prague this month. A time to mark the November day 20 years ago when the “Velvet Revolution” erupted. A time to mark the [...]
Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, was awarded the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his leading role in the peaceful conclusion of the Cold War. Today, as the Founding President of Green Cross International, he is heading an international Climate Change Task Force. This column is part [...]
For the roughly 20,000 renters living in newer units, evictions can happen on a landlord's whim.
EDITORIAL Mayor Gavin Newsom, reeling from criticism of his disappearing act last week and his failure to quickly reengage with San Francisco, has an opportunity to repair some of his tattered image, particularly among [...]
Labor Hampered by 'Vetoes of Silence'
By Dick Meister
Nothing is more basic to our democratic society than the principle of majority rule. But what if the eligible voters who fail to cast ballots were automatically recorded as voting “no”?
Ridiculous as it sounds, that’s exactly what the country’s airline and [...]
LABOR HAMPERED BY ‘VETOES OF SILENCE’
By Dick Meister
Nothing is more basic to our democratic society than the principle of majority rule. But what if the eligible voters who fail to cast ballots were automatically recorded as voting “no”?
Ridiculous as it sounds, that’s exactly what the country’s [...]
Failing the Midterms: Press overplays election results
Republican candidates won gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia on Tuesday; meanwhile, Democratic candidates won two special elections for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York and California. But it was very clear which set of elections corporate [...]
Rep. Nancy Pelosi did what she could to sabotage the single payer health care position of her own party in her own state
By Norman Solomon
(Norman Solomon is co-chair of the national Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign, launched by Progressive Democrats of America.)
In Washington, “healthcare reform” has degenerated into [...]
Will Newsom emerge as an embittered, angry, and ultimately unsuccessful mayor committed to punishing his enemies or a serious leader who can live up to his own hype?
EDITORIAL It's possible that Mayor Gavin Newsom took a long look at himself, his life, and his future last week [...]
Stephen Barnett, prominent UC-Berkeley law professor and noted First Amendment and antitrust scholar and activist, 1935-2009
Photo by Jim Block
By Bruce B. Brugmann
(Special note: read Barnett's scathing indictment of Examiner/Chronicle/JOA news coverage in the San Francisco Bay Guardian (9/31/1970)
Steve Barnett would have been' [...]
Dick Meister describes the tense scene at the Berlin Wall shortly after it went up in 196l
By Dick Meister
It was 20 years ago this month that the Berlin Wall finally fell, one of the last vestiges of the Cold War. But though it's long gone, I and I'm' [...]
George Akerlof, a Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor at Columbia University and winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize, served as Chairman of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. Let [...]
