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Ohioans “all fired up” by GOP vote suppression effort

September 26, 2012 By Rick Nagin

100 public officials and supporters rallied in a show of determination to overcome efforts to stop Ohioans from voting in the presidential election.

Big business and GOP block Florida sick-time ballot measure

September 25, 2012 By Ben Markeson

Progressive forces have had the prospect of paid sick time, an advance for low-wage workers, snatched from them, at least temporarily, by big business forces and their allies .

Battling the Brooklyn Democratic boss

September 25, 2012 By Mary Arnold And Daniel Rubin

New York State assemblyman Vito J. Lopez has been censured for substantiated accusations of sexual harassment of two women who worked in his district office. Lopez has denied the charges.

Unions say Pennsylvania can’t handle Voter ID demand

September 21, 2012 By John Wojcik

Labor unions have piles of evidence they say prove the law cannot be implemented without blocking the votes of as many as 750,000 people.

An election for the many or the few?

September 19, 2012 By Joelle Fishman

Will the choice be in favor of the interests of the 1% at the peril of everyone else? Or will our country come together and represent the needs of the majority?