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Coalition offers better choices to fix state budget

February 16, 2011 By Art Perlo

A coalition in Connecticut is calling on the governor and legislators to adopt measures to help maintain vital public services during the recession including education, health, housing, job training, public safety, environmental protection, and transportation systems.

Michigan deficit plan: Raise taxes on poor

February 2, 2011 By John Rummel

Going after those on the low end of the economic ladder, Republicans in the Michigan Legislature want to eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit for the working poor.

Ohio poll: Don’t cut people’s programs

January 31, 2011 By Bruce Bostick

The 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.

Chicago Chamber of Commerce seeks ‘business friendly’ city council

January 28, 2011 By John Bachtell

The Chicago Chamber of Commerce announced it's endorsement of 35 aldermanic candidates Jan. 26.

Ohio tea party rep needs history lesson

January 25, 2011 By Rick Nagin

Tea party leaders and the ultra-right need a lesson in history when it comes to our Founding Fathers who were not only revolutionaries in deed, but many held far-reaching democratic ideas that the tea-baggers would denounce...