DENVER, Colo. – Last night, progressives made significant gains in state houses across the nation, creating new opportunities to advance progressive policies and taking a critical next step in strengthening progressive power in the states. Candidates that ran on a progressive platform will now be focused on passing policies including expanding Medicaid, … [Read more...]
Seeing Through the Fog of “Fake” News
by Faith Rogow from her blog Media Literacy Education Maven If you’ve ever found yourself on the road in a dense fog, you know the anxiety of trying to navigate when the cues usually available to you are obscured. It’s easy to get confused. Some days it feels like that’s what has happened with news. One of the new truths of the digital world: … [Read more...]
Teachers’ Strikes Past and Present
Almost out of nowhere, an inspiring wave of strikes by public school teachers has swept the United States. Teachers in Arizona have just ended a strike on the heels of walk-outs in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Colorado and Kentucky. Similar actions between now and the end of the school year loom in others states. Thus far, unity among teachers in all of … [Read more...]
Claudia Tenney—Her Record
Voted to repeal some of the Dodd-Frank Act, that was put in place after the economic collapse during President GW Bush. It demanded that large banks separate their investment side from the protected banking side. It was put in place to keep banks from making crazy bets on stocks and bonds, putting the bank at risk, while being protected by … [Read more...]
