No, ALEC isn't for the little guy (opinion) San Francisco Chronicle ...Americans are getting wise to the lasting damage caused by the American Legislative Exchange Council - the corporate-bill mill known primarily for pushing discriminatory voter ID laws through statehouses across the country...
High-frequency trading insanity (opinion) USA Today ...the high-frequency trader ... deploys massive computer capacity and complex algorithms to buy and sell individual stocks multiple times in a fraction of a second, all in search of micro-profits with each trade. This trader cares not a whit about a stock's fundamentals...in the bizarro world that Wall Street has become, such activity now makes up the majority of all trades. It is manufacturing risk while siphoning money and talent that growth-producing sectors of the economy need...
Phoenix Mayor Attempts To Live On A Food Stamp Budget: ‘I’m Tired, And It’s Hard To Focus’ ThinkProgress ...When local activist groups challenged Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to live on a food stamp budget for a week to mark Hunger Awareness Month, he took them up on the offer and found out just how hard it was. Stanton kept a diary on the challenge, which allotted him roughly $29 a week...
Targeted Members of the Press Denied Access to Walker Press Conference Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative ...Governor Scott Walker and his staff are taking extraordinary steps to control his public image and protect him from the public outrage his policies have engendered. Yesterday, these measures included kicking out independent journalists from a press conference...
Crestwood bus workers to decide on union representation Southtown Star ...On Friday, about 270 employees at Alpha, which transports special-needs students around the Southland, will vote on whether to have the Teamsters represent them in negotiations...
Teamsters Local 164 union in Jackson files unfair labor-practice charges against Hendrickson Trucking Co. MLive ...The Teamsters Local 164 union has filed unfair labor-practice charges against Jackson’s Hendrickson Trucking Co. as its employees continue to strike...
