Archive for February, 2007
Bostonians: support local business and Dollars & Sense
Boston Main Streets has created a benefit card to encourage Boston residents to shop and dine locally. It’s called the Boston Community Change card, and when you present it at participating Boston businesses, those businesses give you a rebate and donate a portion of the sale to a Boston non-profit (such as Dollars & Sense). ...Read more.
The Drug War Comes Home
February 21, 2007 My father is 96. A month ago, he shuffled around the house, up and down the stairs, quite well by himself. Then, as he puts it, “I fell on my arse!” Oops! Compression fracture of the spine. Treatment: pain killers and bed rest. But, if he is ever to walk again, he ...Read more.
Real news raises newspapers' profits
When the Boston Independent Media Center and encuentro 5 brought David Barsamian, Cynthia Peters, and various representatives of Boston-based independent media together to discuss media issues last month, one topic that came up was the trend among the big media and entertainment corporations that own most daily newspapers for cutting newspaper staff—especially editorial staff—and citing ...Read more.
Homelessness Marathon
If you’re reading this between Tuesday evening (the 20th) and Wednesday morning (the 21st), tune into the 10th Annual Homelessness Marathon, originating this year from Fresno, California. You can listen online via streaming audio, or find a radio station near you that is carrying the broadcast. The current issue of Dollars & Sense includes an ...Read more.
Representative Mica (R-Fla) Distorts on Corporate Taxes
Representative Mica Distorts on Corporate Taxes This issue’s Dr. Dollar answers a question from Sandra Holt, a constituent of Congressman John Mica, who represents the 7th congressional district in Florida. A visit to Mica’s official U.S. House of Representatives website confirms Sandra’s suspicion that her member of congress is engaged in double talk on corporate ...Read more.
Econ-Utopia: The Northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Econ-Utopia: The Northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas InitiativeBy Matthew Riddle, CPE Staff EconomistAn Econ-Utopia, brought to you by the Center for Popular Economics. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, grabbed headlines in Massachusetts recently when Governor Deval Patrick signed onto it, committing Massachusetts to a cut in its emissions of greenhouse gasses from power plants, ...Read more.
Success! Thank You for Your Calls!
Thank you to all who called Barney Frank to ask him to allow New Orleans Public Housing residents to speak at yesterday’s meeting of the House Committee on Financial Services. And thank you to Barney Frank for recognizing the importance of including testimony from a resident at yesterday’s hearings. I received the following report from ...Read more.
Lattes on the honor system
In yesterday’s Seattle Times, Amy Roe reports on the Terra Bite Lounge in Kirkland, WA, where patrons pay for their lattes and sandwiches on the honor system: With its blood-red walls and black leather sofas, Kirkland’s Terra Bite Lounge looks like any other coffee shop—until you get to the menu. There are no prices listed. ...Read more.
Stop child labor: buy haute couture!
Speaking of Boston’s Metro as a tool for getting progressive economic views out to a wide audience: magazine editor Amy Gluckman is now the only member of the Dollars & Sense staff who hasn’t published a letter to the editors of the Metro. Last fall, magazine editor Chris Sturr chided the Metro for paying more ...Read more.
Econamici: Death and Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe
February 2, 2007 After Robert Mugabe drove her and other white Zimbabweans from their farms, Cathy Buckle refused to leave the country of her birth. She writes a weekly column documenting the disintegration of Zimbabwe: the mass starvation in the original breadbasket of Africa; the arbitrary arrests and killings; the collapse of public services; and ...Read more.
