Archive for October, 2009

This week’s Audit takes a look at job scarcity and the prospects for further economic stimulus. Read more here…

This week’s Mulch rounds up the latest news about Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Award and the relationship between a healthy environment and a healthy economy. Read more here…

Our client and friend, the Marion Institute has been mentioned in this article on Chelsea Green. Working with those passionate for environmental and social justice change, the Marion Institute is proud to be sponsoring this year’s Bioneers by the Bay conference in New Bedford, MA. To find out more about the Bioneers by the Bay Conference and register for the event, please go here…

This week’s Diaspora highlights reason returning to the immigration debate, and where it has been absent. Of note, we underline two positive developments, an announcement from the White House on immigration detention reform (but how positive is it?) as well as a letter sent from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in protest to certain enforcement policies. Read more here…

What happens when online news sites really step up and add real reporters? The straw that breaks newspapers’s backs.

Apple announced their resignation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Their reasons were due to climate policy. Read James Boyce’s article on the topic in the Huffington Post.

The economy is still getting worse. Foreclosures are surging above last year’s epic highs and the unemployment rate marches upwards every month. Read more of this week’s Audit here…

It has been a roller coaster week in health reform. The Senate Finance Committee shot down the public option, but the fight will continue in conference committee. All eyes turn Harry Reid. Today we bring you an original interview with Tristam Korten, a journalist who got the dirt on health care mogul and anti-reform activist Rick Scott of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights. Listen to more here…

This week’s Mulch rounds up the latest news about companies who left the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of their climate position and an update on the new draft of the climate change bill. Check out more here…

It’s a sad irony that a President who wants to unite opposing factions presides over an increasingly entrenched and partisan political landscape. There seems to be no satisfactory compromise for both the health care and immigration reform debates. Well-worn rallying cries and talking points are tooled and retooled until the root issues are nearly forgotten. The situation is tragic because the people’s needs are made secondary to an unending war between two political entities. Read more of this week’s Wire here…