Your Bailout Money at Work
Looks like high price executives are putting the trillion dollar taxpayer bailout of Wall Street to good use. The New York Times reported today: Continue reading
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Merkeley Wraps Smith for Wall Street Bailout
In the pivotal, tight race in Oregon for U.S. Senate, Democrat Jeff Merkley has gone after Republican Gordon Smith for voting for George Bush’s Wall Street bailout. Here’s a new Merkeley ad: Continue reading
Sen. Sanders of Vermont echoed Defazio
Vermont progressive Senator Bernie Sanders echoed local Congressman Peter Defazio’s opposition to the Wall Street bailout. Here’s his video: Continue reading
City Manager from Sprawl City USA
When Jon Ruiz was hired away from an assistant city manager job in Fresno to serve as Eugene’s new city manager this year, he defended Fresno’s reputation for urban sprawl. The San Francisco Chronicle profiled the sprawling, “corrupt,” “depressing” city at the millennium as “a cautionary tale of planning gone wrong and development gone wild.” Continue reading
Bailout Fix: More tax Breaks for the Wealthy
The U.S. Senate is considering passage today of a Wall Street bailout modified to include tax breaks for the wealthy. The measure includes a provision to reduce the “alternative minimum tax,” a tax originally designed to make sure millionaires couldn’t deduct away all their taxes. Citizens for Tax Justice, a leading non-partisan fair taxation think tank, analyzed the impact of a similar AMT elimination proposal in 2006. Here’s what they found: Continue reading
DeFazio Fights Wall Street Bailout
Local Congressman Peter DeFazio is a national leader of the progressive revolt on Capitol Hill against the $700 billion Wall Street bailout. He explained why on the House floor: Continue reading
Tift Merritt Q&A
As promised, here’s Jason Blair’s Q&A with Tift Merritt. A lot has been written about your voice. When were you first aware of your own voice? The first time I remember being aware of my own voice was when I had my first apartment. I would sing all the time and play music in the middle of the night and my neighbors would bang on the wall, telling me to be quiet. And I thought, I didn’t realize I was singing that loud… Continue reading
Best of Eugene: It’s the final countdown!
… if I could figure out how to type out the melody of “The Final Countdown,” I would. But I can’t, so I’ll spare you. ANYWAY, you have approximately seven hours left in which to vote for the Best of Eugene. And we want your ballots. Yes, yours — and yours, and yours, and that guy over there’s. Remember, kids, if you don’t vote, you don’t get to complain about the direction our country’s heading. Er, I mean, the businesses which take home the magical sparkly winners’ certificates. Continue reading
McCain/Palin Armageddon
John McCain said the mistake in Vietnam was that the U.S. didn’t go all out, invading and bombing north Vietnam. Historians say that could have lead to massive casualties and war with China’s huge army. A fellow Vietnam POW said McCain’s an unstable hot head: Continue reading
Eugene Celebration: And Now For Something Completely Different
Photo by Todd Cooper Continue reading