Montreal It wasn’t a surprise that Halter lost against Senator Lincoln in the Arkansas Democratic primary the other day. He had been running a “come from behind” effort from the beginning against a well financed incumbent in a conservative southern state. His win was always unlikely when ballots were really cast. [...]
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Toronto Short squib in the papers in the US caught my eye. Immigration fees for green cards and work permits all were announced as increasing by 10%. Reason: business down. Fewer applications were submitted in this bad climate for immigrants and in this terrible economy so there was a [...] Toronto Bank of America settled with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for $110 million to offset the fact that on “hundreds of thousands” of foreclosures Countrywide stole and cheated from people before B of A bought the outfit. Angelo Mozilo, the former head of Countrywide, was once famously quoted in a [...] Toronto All afternoon I kept overhearing snippets of conversation about the action with a housing committee at City Hall that evening. It was a deputation? No, it was just lobbying to keep them on track. It was important? No, it was just another exercise in keeping the City [...] Toronto It is not often that my friends in Canada are willing to concede that there might be a service in the US that is superior to what exists in the great north, so I was paying careful attention to the torrent of complaints that spewed forth before the beer was even [...] Toronto Around 2006 the Harper government in Canada had a pretty good citizen wealth idea to advance the educational opportunity for lower income children. They would give a $500 grant to children born after 2005 in a savings instrument for future higher education expenditure, if or when the child went to [...] Toronto A couple of weeks ago at the Labor Notes conference, I commented on the power of the presentation by the director of the Domestic Workers Union in New York State. My remarks were an understatement! The New York State Senate has finally passed a bill giving long disregarded and [...] Houston Of course Governor Brewer (R-AZ) wanted a meeting with the President at the White House. Her agenda was clear: she needed cover for the racist bill she had signed while steadily trying to put lipstick on the pig. She needed Obama to allow her to say she was [...] |
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