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| published Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
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week is a good time to re-examine the reciprocal commitments between individuals and the community that define us as a nation. Is our ‘common man philosophy’ alive and well?
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| published Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
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Will we make the necessary investments and fix our ports before there is another national calamity?
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| published Thursday, March 02, 2006 |
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Susan Wood, recently retired assistant commissioner of women's health at the Food and Drug Administration, shares in a Washington Post op.ed her concerns that our federal health agencies seem
increasingly unable to operate independently and that this lack of
independence compromises their mission of promoting public health and
welfare. The most recent example is how the FDA is being manipulated to restrict access by adults to contraception.
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| published Thursday, March 02, 2006 |
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In a brilliant speech that he is making to several audiences around the country, Bill Moyers outlines the connections and causes of corruption in Washington, DC. This is well worth reading and reveals how so many problems that have been exacerbated in recent years are connected to the way private money flows into and out of the hands of our government officials. Please take the time to read the whole speech as there are positive things you can do to push for change on the local, state and national level.
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| published Wednesday, February 22, 2006 |
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David Broder, a sydicated columnist for the Washington Post, reported in his column on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006 that the Bush Administration is proposing a budget that assumes over $1 trillion in the base that does not exist there. Bush's budget hides this massive sum in its overall figures because it assumes the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 are permanent. They are not. They expire in 2010 and to extend them will cost at least $1.35 trillion according to the White House or $1.6 trillion according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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| published Monday, February 20, 2006 |
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to keep up, in part because we no longer use tax policies to invest in strengthening the middle class.
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| published Tuesday, January 24, 2006 |
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Campaign joined six other national reform groups in a press conference
today announcing a platform for comprehensive lobbying and campaign
finance reform in the wake of the Abramoff-DeLay scandals.
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| published Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
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Taking stock of consequences that have followed from policies pursued 10 years ago, 5 years ago, last year can help us assess where we are now and where we need to go.
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| published Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
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and it should be underwritten with federal tax dollars. That's where the logic of proposals currently in the headlines ends.
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| published Sunday, October 16, 2005 |
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accomplishing exactly what it was designed to do. That's one reason why President Bush's plan to "reform" Social Security has stalled.
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