New Orleans Aside from California and Alaska, there is no stronger state for unions than New York, yet for months even before being elected as the new Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo seems to have been targeting unions as has special blame-boys for budget woes in the state. Now indisputable news emerges that he …
Category: DC Politics
Hunger Strike for DREAM Act on Thanksgiving
New Orleans The DREAM Act is bumping and stumbling its way to a vote in the Senate to the quack of the lame ducks and the politics of desperation, but once again young people are showing muscle and grit to lead this movement. For the last two weeks more than a dozen students at the …
Darrell “McCarthy” Issa and the Non-Profit Purge
New Orleans Darrell Issa, the emerging Chair of the House Investigations Committee was interviewed the day after the election about how he saw his “work” shaping up. It was a little late for Halloween, but it was scarier than the worst fright movie. Some commentators took Issa’s remarks as conciliatory, which must be the result …