Are We Impoverishing The US Anti-Poverty Effort?

My concern, now that we have earmarked multiple trillions of the public purse to bailing out banks and building bridges, is that we will have squeezed the money available to meet the goal established by Barack's new Domestic Policy Council Director, Melody Barnes, to cut...

Are We Over-Stimulating The US Economy?

I believe that we are where we are because governments around the world have been over-stimulating their economies since the late Eighties. Every time it has come time to pay the piper, we have put off the day of reckoning by literally printing more money.I’m going to spend...

Indie Rock the Vote: Arcade Fire and Superchunk Team for Obama Campaign Shows

"Arcade Fire and Superchunk Team for Obama Campaign ShowsBy Eliot Van Buskirk EmailApril 22, 2008 | 5:57:33 PMCategories: Shows Barack Obama's iPod contains some Jay-Z songs, but his campaign will receive a boost...

Town Sees Rash Of House Fires: Firefighters Kept Busy

" March 21, 2007 North Carolina - Carrboro firefighters have battled five house fires in less than a week. The fires are not thought to be related, according to a Carrboro Fire-Rescue Department news release. Two were determined to be the result of electrical shorts, one was...

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