Teamsters Thank Liam Neeson For Support Of Horse Carriage Drivers And Horses teamster.org ... Teamster officials and Teamster horse carriage drivers thanked actor Liam Neeson for escorting City Councilmembers on a tour of the Clinton Park Horse Stables Sunday afternoon. Councilmembers were invited to ask questions about the care and treatment of the animals and saw firsthand how well the horses live...
Liam Neeson Leads Carriage Horse Stable Tour New York Daily News ...Neeson, carriage drivers, and Teamsters reps took about a dozen Council members on tours of the stables. Councilman Costa Constantinides (D-Queens), said he backs the drivers. “I’m a progressive, so I’m not looking to put 350 families out on the street,” he said...
Trade
Even the Chinese Can Tell the TransPacific Partnership is Unlikely to Get Done naked capitalism ...China and even some developing nations included in the TPP have expressed concern that it will set down trade rules primarily benefiting the richest countries and most powerful firms...
State Battles
How the Rich Became Dependent on Government Welfare truthout ...a full "three-quarters of all the economic development dollars awarded and disclosed by state and local governments have gone to just 965 large corporations" — not to the small businesses and startups that politicians so often pretend to care about. In dollar figures, that's a whopping $110 billion going to big companies. Fortune 500 firms alone receive more than 16,000 subsidies at a total cost of $63 billion...
The War on Workers
Wireless Bills Go Up, and Stay Up Wall Street Journal ...T-Mobile US Inc. raised the cost of its core unlimited data plan on Friday. The carrier says it has been competing more effectively by doing away with subscriber "pain points" like service contracts and international data fees...
After pledging transparency, PBS hides details of new deal with billionaire owner of NewsHour Pando Daily ...since 1994, the NewsHour has been produced and primarily owned by the for-profit colossus, Liberty Media. Liberty, which is run by conservative billionaire John Malone, owns the majority stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions – the entity that produces the journalistic content of the show...
Miscelleneous
US Postal Service Inspector General Proposes Launching Low-Fee Public Bank The Real News ...A public option for banks will dramatically improve and help regulate the financial services industry...
Use of Public Transit in U.S. Reaches Highest Level Since 1956, Advocates Report New York Times ...10.65 billion passenger trips were taken on transit systems during the year, surpassing the post-1950s peak of 10.59 million in 2008, when gas prices rose to $4 to $5 a gallon...
