In a symbolic gesture, the U.S. Senate approved a resolution Friday afternoon calling for the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democacy activist and Nobel Laureate whose been under house arrest at the hands of Burma’s military…
The Gulf Coast economies in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida are heavily reliant on three interconnected industries: Energy, fishing and tourism. Ironically, the energy industry that caused the April 20 oil spill that’s pumping as many as 60,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico looks likely to emerge relatively unscathed from the disaster, while the service industries, including fishing and tourism, are already starting to suffer from its effects.
Bloomingdale is gentrifying. Ten years ago, the pretty neighborhood in central Washington, D.C., was plagued by drugs, robberies and gang violence. Today those problems are greatly reduced, thanks in part to the efforts of the neighborhood’s tight-knit community of black families and young professionals. In the past five years, residents cleaned up the streets, developed two new parks and a small urban farm and watched their home values rise. But the problem for Bloomingdale now is that it just can’t get businesses to open up.
A growing number of scientists are devoting their careers to researching geoengineering, a manipulation of the environment to counteract climate change. But while most scientists may agree on the need to study this worst-case approach to addressing the climate crisis, a political consensus on the issue remains a long way off, as liberals and environmentalists have been reluctant to consider this radical solution that some conservatives have been quick to embrace.
In a swift train of events, the Senate last night passed a short-term extension of emergency unemployment benefits, which the House approved a few hours later and President Obama signed into law shortly afterward. “In these tough economic times,”…
Rep. Keith Ellison sat down with TCJewFolk.com, a “Twin Cities Hub for Hip Jewish Stuff,” to talk about his recent trips to Israel and Gaza. Ellison said that a…
The Obama Administration has done little, so far, to target higher rates of unemployment in communities of color as a result of the recession — let alone the existing conditions that lead to ongoing disproportionately high unemployment rates, specifically within African-American communities.
During his trip to the Middle East, Rep. Keith Ellison told Arab News, a publication in Damman, Saudi Arabia, that Israeli settlements in the West Bank violate international law and are condemned by the United States.
For many conservative activists, the RNC’s lavish spending only accelerated the revolt against the committee that had been brewing for months.
“It is a validation of our status as citizens, as people and as humans. Marriage is the highest honor that society can give a couple. We finally have that in Iowa, and we are blessed to have it,” said Trish Varnum, who along with her wife, Kate, was one of the lead plaintiffs in the Iowa Supreme Court case the ultimately legalized same-sex marriage one year ago Saturday.
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