Articles > August 2010
August 2010
Still in Search of the Elusive Black Racist (ahem... it's not Shirley Sherrod)
Let the record show that those who try too hard not to offend anyone, eventually wind up offending someone.
Atlanta: Evicted AHA High-Rise Seniors Die at Alarming Rates
Original source: The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA -- Seniors evicted from the Palmer House and Roosevelt House highrises in late 2009 after a long struggle to preserve their housing, have been dying at alarming rates, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
‘I Would Join a Union’
More than 70 years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt said, “If I were a worker in a factory, the first thing I would do would be to join a union.” Barack Obama recently referenced FDR’s statement and took it further:
Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching for Meaning in a Refugee Camp
Beirut, Lebanon – Two young girls stood, as if frozen, starting below them at an ever vibrant Beirut.
For-profit Colleges Encourage Fraud, Government Investigation Finds
Overpriced, default, fraud.
U.S. Colonial Policies and Native Americans, Int. with David Chang
Editor's note: David A. Chang teaches history at the University of Minnesota and is the author of The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929, out now from the University of North Carolina Press.
Is the Ethics Investigation really an Ethnic Investigation?
Truth be told you can find some amount of corruption with a 10-year-old girl's lemonade stand if you lack enough of a life to devote time to it. What with zoning laws, how many feet from the curve it has to be, etc., and before you know it, little Vanessa is visited upon by two stuff-shirts in 90 degree weather serving her with a citation before she can say 'whaaaaat...' Thus we've had similar childish scrutiny of 8 black Democratic lawmakers from earlier this year by the House Ethics Committee that boggle the mind.
Congress Passes Jobs Bill, President Obama to Sign
After a party-line vote in the House of Representatives, Congress sent a new jobs bill to President Obama's desk, August 10. Obama administration officials declared the passage of the bill that provides direct aid to states to fund health care and education a "tremendous victory for America's children." The bill allocates $16 billion to fund state Medicaid programs and $10 billion for teacher and educational salaries and benefits in the 2010-2011 school year.
For-profit Colleges Encourage Fraud, Government Investigation Finds
Overpriced, default, fraud.
Health Reform to Close Medicare "Donut Hole"
More than 750,000 Medicare beneficiaries have so far received relief from the so-called prescription drug "donut hole" as a result of President Obama's new health reform law, the Department of Health and Human Services announced this week.
