Democratic senators greeted by cheering crowds in Wisconsin CNN International ..."People think that this is a picnic for us. They're wrong. But I'll tell you something, we did it for the right reasons," said state Sen. Dave Hansen...
Ohio’s legislators ignore campaign promise for bipartisan focus on jobs Plunderbund ...They promised us jobs and an improved economy but all we’ve seen is union busting, misogyny, a war on middle class ohioans and the promise to sell off all state assets to their lucky business pals...
Carnage on I-95 After Crash Rips Bus Apart New York Times ...The driver...survived. He told the authorities that his bus was clipped by a passing tractor-trailer, which sped away, an assertion that the police later said was under investigation...
American Professor Kidnapped in Mexican Border City Fox News ...Armed men kidnapped an American university professor while she was visiting her mother in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez...
A Swift Deal May Not Be a Sound One New York Times ...Shoddy loan servicing has clearly done significant damage to borrowers. If a state settlement morphs into yet another gift to the banks, let’s hope that at least some attorneys general will take a different path...
Why Don’t All Major Unions Own Banks? (opinion) firedoglake ...the new union-owned banks can provide favorable loans to businesses that are unionized, new union-owned businesses, and loans to members trying to start small companies organized as worker-owned cooperatives...
