Thursday, February 7th, 2008 – 12:25:50 AM
Today is Chinese New Year, and like all Chinese children, it’s a time for me to spend time with my family, and get my share of hongbao (red packets, loosely) from the family adults, which contain lucky money. With this New Year money, of course, I’ll do my little bit in stimulating our lugubrious economy, [...]
Friday, April 21st, 2006 – 04:00:18 PM
The 11th Congressional District Democratic Committee passed this resolution unanimously on Monday:
Whereas, in 1933 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, boldly expressed his administration’s policy that “No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a [...]
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006 – 12:43:07 AM
In principle, America may be itching to lessen its dependence on oil, but Virginia is dragging its feet. HB 613 was left to die in committee today, killing off a proposal to give a tax credit on an investment in efficiency. On top of this, earlier this session HB 130 (a Cosgrove bill I actually [...]
Thursday, February 16th, 2006 – 11:23:47 PM
Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him. -Proverbs 14:31
The Roanoke Times carries a column on the repeal of the estate tax, the minimum wage, and the associated class warfare.
Juxtapose, dear reader, these two things: whilethe General Assembly wants a select few children [...]
Thursday, December 8th, 2005 – 10:43:09 PM
The House of Representatives, on the surface, is completely unable to get its priorities sorted out. Perhaps its because the majority party faces the indictment of its leaders and the jailing of the underlings, but never mind that.
Quick! Tell me what’s wrong when you put these two items together:
House Passes Deficit Reduction Bill
House Passes Tax [...]
Monday, September 26th, 2005 – 03:56:57 PM
The Honorable Tom Davis:
I urge you to cosponsor and support HR 3763, the Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims Act, as a show of real support for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. It is an insult and a travesty to use this tragedy for President Bush to allow rapacious contractors to profit off rebuilding New Orleans [...]
Wednesday, March 9th, 2005 – 10:21:00 PM
In all the blather on tax reform, the ever lucid and insightful Robert Reich weighs in on the real problem: Marketplace commentary
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005 – 08:32:00 PM
Put your hand in your pocket. Pull out your wallet. Inside are probably some (or a lot) of green pieces of paper-dollar bills.
Those green notes aren’t as valuable as you think. In case you haven’t noticed, the dollar has been slipping steadily, and our nation’s finances are in quite a precarious position.
Now news comes in [...]
Monday, January 31st, 2005 – 09:30:07 PM
Ruling could affect affordable housing-Charlottesville Daily Progress
There is a crisis unfolding here in NoVa: Affordable housing.
Housing prices are hitting the roof, and bursting through, and poking into space around here, and low-income families struggling to climb the ladder of oppurtunity are left high and dry. We have a moral responsibility to house the poor, for [...]
