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Republicans in the NC General Assembly this week released their “slash and burn” budget. And the Raleigh News and Observer called it like it is, “Republicans in the state House have failed. They have failed the state and its people.” Our Democratic representatives are fighting tooth and nail to protect jobs and education but they [...]
NCDP/MCDP Press Conference Blasts GOP (Charlotte Observer)
Click the link below for the full story. Democratic chairman blasts GOP for tying jobless benefits, budget cuts | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper. On April 15, North Carolina Democratic Party Chair David Parker and Mecklenburg County Democratic Party Chair Aisha Dew held a press conference in front of East Mecklenburg High School to [...]
Stop the Voter ID Bill in Raleigh
On Wednesday, April 13, my wife Jyoti, my daughter Mainjari and I joined a Democracy North Carolina rally in front of the North Carolina legislature building in Raleigh to protest the Republican proposed voter ID bill in the North Carolina General Assembly. The bill was supposed to be presented that day on the House floor, [...]
Rachel Maddow Sees a Southern Strategy at Fox News
“… unless someday it stops working.”
Clean-energy rally calls for offshore drilling ban – CharlotteObserver.com
‘In honor of every pelican that has died’ By Kathy Haight khaight@charlotteobserver.com Posted: Sunday, Jun. 27, 2010 In Freedom Park Saturday, activists stood for 15 minutes in what they described as “solidarity” with Gulf of Mexico coastal residents affected by the BP oil spill. They also signed a petition asking President Barack Obama to say [...]
Jobs: To be or not to be?
I was hopeful as anyone would be on hearing that 162,000 jobs were created in the USA in March. But after reading Robert Reich’s blog post on the subject, I’m not so sure. He writes: The US economy added 162,000 jobs in March. Great news until you look more closely. In March, the federal government [...]
Small Businesses: Not to big to fail, too small to succeed?
I saw an article in The Charlotte Observer on July 27 which talked about the financial troubles facing small businesses in the recession. The article focuses mostly on loan write-offs, but doesn’t really get into the economic dynamics facing small businesses in the economic downturn. I’ve written a response from the small businessman’s point of [...]
Dr. Ravi Batra: Depression Is Inevitable
The keynote speaker at the National Conference on Spirituality and the New Economy in Dallas, Texas, April 4-5, 2009 was Dr. Ravi Batra (noted economist and author of “The Great Depression of 1990″, “Greenspan’s Fraud” and “The New Golden Age”). Dr. Batra has a remarkable ability to take something very complex and make it seem [...]
MoveOn Meets Republican Conrgressional Representative Sue Myrick
Today I joined a group of MoveOn members here in Charlotte to meet with our congressional representative Sue Myrick (R) in her office in Charlotte. The purpose of the meeting was to inform Rep. Myrick about our views regarding universal health care, green energy legislation and the economy. Here is a summary of my view [...]
Robert Reich on "The Stimulus"
The Stimulus: How to Creat Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Workers The stimulus plan will create jobs repairing and upgrading the nation’s roads, bridges, ports, levees, water and sewage system, public-transit systems, electricity grid, and schools. And it will kick-start alternative, non-fossil based sources of energy (wind, solar, geothermal, [...]
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