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Attention lawmakers: Connecticut is not broke

July 1, 2011 By Art Perlo And Joelle Fishman

State workers in Connecticut are in a pitched battle to save their jobs and the services they provide.

Texas legislature finally finishes, leaving trail of wreckage

July 1, 2011

That long loud shrieking shudder you heard on June 29 was the entire population of Texas breathing their sigh of relief; the legislature had finally ended its reign of terror and gone home!

Thank you, Governor Walker

June 30, 2011 By Michael Synowicz

It's time for progressives to take a moment to join together in offering Gov. Walker thanks.

Majority favors taxing rich, ending war to cut deficit

June 30, 2011

The Republican political establishment appears to be at odds with the majority of the Republican base.

Letter to Washington: Don’t cut deficits on backs of poor

June 30, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Negotiations on deficit reductions in the past 30 years have been guided by a bipartisan agreement that the spending cuts should not increase poverty.