Opinion
Immigration reform welcome news
April 17, 2009We welcome the news that both of the nation’s major labor federations have agreed to join forces to support an overhaul of the immigration system. They are backing the Obama administration’s call for a path to...
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Letters: Nukes, Berenson, Travel to Cuba, free speech, J.H. Franklin
April 17, 2009Nuclear sense Finally! A president who lives in the real world. By extending the hand of friendship and mutual respect and sweeping away the Cold War tactics of arrogance, confrontation and peace through strength, Barak Obama...
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Love your mother
April 16, 2009Earth Day, April 22, is sandwiched between Tax Day, April 15, and Workers Memorial Day, April 28. Just around the corner is May Day, May 1, the international workers day and a day for flower baskets...
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Unemployment — not a lagging indicator of economy
April 11, 2009It is conventional wisdom pontificated ad nauseam on business channels like CNBC and Bloomberg that employment figures are “lagging indicators” of the state of a country’s economy. Their argument is that as recessions begin businesses start...
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Editorial: Seeking a nuke-free world
April 11, 2009President Obama told a crowd of 20,000 in Prague April 5 that the U.S., the only nation that has ever used nuclear weapons, has a “moral responsibility” to lead the way in seeking “the peace and...
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