VISION: Can a New High-Speed Rail System Save the American Dream? Alternet ...America is looking for answers and solutions, and it may have found a good one in the form of an ambitious national high-speed rail network...
One oil pipeline too many for Texas? Los Angeles Times ...TransCanada's plan to pipe in tar sands oil angers Texas landowners who say they resent being pushed around by a foreign company...
ATA Mounts Assault on HOS Proposal truckinginfo.com ...ATA says the proposed changes would hurt industry productivity and the economy, are too complex to be enforced and would not improve safety...
The Blue Collar Life (essay) firedoglake ...The men in suits make you focus on the unions with their high paying jobs while they sit in offices pushing pencils making eight times the amount that my husband makes...
Mortgage Giants Leave Legal Bills to the Taxpayers New York Times ...Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud...
Postal Service Eyes Closing Thousands of Post Offices Wall Street Journal ...Beginning in March, the agency will start the process of closing as many as 2,000 post offices, on top of the 491 it said it would close starting at the end of last year...
The State of the Union: What the President Should Say robertreich.org ...the U.S. economy is now twice as large as it was in 1980 but the real median wage has barely budged...
Jeff Immelt’s GE: The Too Biggest To Fail firedoglake ...GE was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the government’s bailout of shadow banking in 2008-09...
