If 100,000 people protest, but the corporate media does not report it… did it really happen?

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: On Saturday afternoon, more than 100,000 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to protest Gov. Scott Walker's coup d'etat over union collective bargaining rights, and to welcome home the "Wisconsin 14" who nobly fought to prevent this miscarriage of justice. You read about it online, including here, and there was some print reporting … Read more

GOP Plan For The States: A Race To The Bottom

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Jon Perr at perrspectives.com posted Republicans Push National Race to the Bottom on March 1, then expanded upon his post in GOP to America: We're All Mississippians Now on March 10. His lengthy detail-rich economic analyses are a must-read: Republicans have seen the future and it's in Mississippi. On the same day Wisconsin Republicans turned … Read more

Metro Phoenix lagging behind other metro areas in recovering from the recession

By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings …as if those of us who live here haven't figured that out already. Brookings Mountain West, a partnership between the Brookings Institute, a Washington D.C. think tank, and the University of Nevada – Las Vegas (UNLV), today released its quarterly Mountain Monitor, tracking and evaluating economic data for the Intermountain … Read more