Privatization
Ohio poll: Don’t cut people’s programs
January 31, 2011The old adage that people may want the ox gored, but not their ox, appears to hold true in the findings of an Quinnipiac poll published last week in Ohio.
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Class battle lines drawn in Chicago council elections
January 25, 2011Chicago City Council elections are shaping up to be a contest between a coalition of organized labor, the many racially and ethnically diverse communities, their organizations and small businesses against the big financial and corporate interests...
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In tea party town would fire fighters watch as houses burn?
October 7, 2010Last week the nation saw a preview of life in an America as envisioned by ultra-right tea party types - a country where everything will be "privatized," more frightening than anything the cinema has to offer.
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In defense of librarians
October 6, 2010I feel for the librarians in Santa Clarita, Calif., as their library system sells their jobs out from under them.
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Economic crises and modern Greek mythology
July 7, 2010Major media in the U.S. and Europe offer myths to explain Greece's economic crisis.
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