Did you know that 40 percent of our food is thrown into landfills every year? That shocking statistic comes to us courtesy of the
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Atlanta’s new stadium: Boost or boondoggle?
Football and God rarely clash in the South. But the neighborhood surrounding the future $1 billion new Falcons’ stadium may be forced to lose
Otto’s Market, Germantown NY: Down-home grocery in a big-box world
Recently I met a guy named Otto Leuschel. Otto’s got a fascinating story to tell about his journey from vice-president of the northeastern division
Finance 101 for football players
How many times have you heard of athletes who signed mega-million dollar contracts and who went broke? They include baseball players Tony Gwynn, Bill
California fights Walmart over Medicaid costs
The Affordable Care Act is coming. No matter how many times Republicans vote against it (39 and counting!) it’s here to stay. While that’s
Jobs policy has to be key to full economic recovery
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released statistics on eleven cities where workers are disappearing. Note that workers disappearing is different from jobs
Hog Hell: How a citizen lobby influenced policy in North Carolina
Over the past 20 years, the pork industry in the United States has increased productivity and cut costs through industrialization. The process of pork
Municipal stadium rip-offs: A new direction for the Occupy movement?
I always thought that it was a problem for the Occupy Movement to begin in late summer (2011) and then basically close up shop
NRA takes its “no-gun-restrictions-ever” argument to the United Nations
Apparently, the National Rifle Association isn’t content merely to enforce its no-gun-restriction marketing strategy on Americans. [Notice that I’m not calling it an ideology.
The student loan bubble is about to burst
The ever-insightful and knowledgeable Yves Smith, writing at Naked Capitalism, points to a potential trigger for the next economic crisis—the bursting of the massive