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Fracking: Why corporate-driven energy policy is bad for America

May 3, 2012 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Energy, Environment Leave a comment

ROBERT KUDLOW: Won’t this natural gas fracking revolution really change America, change business, make us more competitive, and help people with utility bills at

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OCCUPIED Amendment to end corporate money in politics

December 5, 2011 Madonna Gauding Good government, Voting/Elections 2 comments

As a testament to the growing influence of the Occupied movement, on November 18, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), a member of the House Judiciary

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Unions are hitting the bull’s-eye

June 22, 2011 Bobbi Clemons Consumer issues, Employment, Labor and unions Leave a comment

I’d never heard of Valley Stream. It sounds like the sorta non-descript town that could be anywhere in America. (Apparently it’s in New York.)

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Betrayed by Scholastic

June 9, 2011 Bobbi Clemons Consumer issues, Education Leave a comment

I always loved book fairs as a child. My mother served as school librarian for a few years so I had the privilege of

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The top ten tax-dodging corporations

March 30, 2011 Madonna Gauding Economy, Financial reform, Government, Taxes 2 comments

Did you know you will pay more taxes this year than GE or Exxon Mobil? These corporations, and others, will not only avoid paying

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Vermont challenges corporate personhood

February 11, 2011 Madonna Gauding Courts, Good government, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

In a recent article in Truthdig, Christopher Ketcham reports on Vermont State Senator Virginia Lyons’ introduction of a resolution for passage in the Vermont

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Film “Inside Job” shows sharply divided America

November 19, 2010 Madonna Gauding Economy, Government, Literature/Arts/Film, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Inside Job presents an illuminating account of how the financial meltdown of 2008 came to be. My biggest take away is that we are

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Corporation runs for Congress

March 16, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik Campaigns, Congress, Humor Leave a comment

Taking the recent Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance to its logical extreme, a corporation–Murray Hill, Inc.,–has filed as a Republican candidate for Congress

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