Joe Sims
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joe Sims
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U.S.
Business as usual? Federal Reserve keeps interest rates near zero
January 29, 2009Economic news worsened Wednesday as the House of Representatives voted on the stimulus package with the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee admitting that the “economy has weakened further. Industrial production, housing starts, and employment have...
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U.S.
House set to vote on economic stimulus package
January 29, 2009With over 75,000 layoffs announced earlier in the week, the House of Representatives is set to vote Wednesday on a $825 billion economic stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, HR 1. The plan is...
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Opinion
OPINION: What happened to me on the way to the inauguration
January 24, 2009When walking down 34th street to pick up train tickets to the Washington Inauguration on Monday, MLK Day, I heard someone shout out the N word. Looking up it turned out to be a white person...
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Opinion
Ten best and worst movies I saw and didn’t see in 2008
January 7, 2009Here are my impressions of the great and not-so-great films of 2008. (There are still a lot I've got to see).
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PrintEditions
Lawmakers oppose Iraq war
September 6, 2002CHICAGO – With the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks upon us, lawmakers are speaking out against the Bush-Cheney plan to invade Iraq in the name of the “war on terrorism.”
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