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Banks making huge profits from toxic assets

January 5, 2010 By John Wojcik

What the government really did for the financial giants in March as a way to help them unload their toxic mortgage securities was put up a sign that read, "Free money, come and get it."

Ethics violations haunt John McCain

January 5, 2010 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., may have violated Senate rules when he recorded an anti-healthcare reform telephone message.

Even the Washington Post agrees: It was a ‘Decade of Disaster!’

January 4, 2010 By John Wojcik

It took the Washington Post until almost a year after he left office to do it, but on its front page Jan. 2 the paper, which normally emphasizes happy economic news, printed a report that described...

The year in headlines: High hopes at start, roadblocks at end

December 31, 2009

WASHINGTON (PAI) — It was a year that started with such high hopes for workers and their unions — and ended in roadblocks and looming disappointment.

Aid urgently needed to stem Cook County health care crisis

December 29, 2009 By John Bachtell

Stroger Hospital, is the largest public hospital in Cook County and one of the largest in the country. If there is a place where the nation's horrific health care crisis can be seen this is it.