Issue #336

Union campaign calls city pre-K plan GOP-friendly, male-dominated After a state Court of Appeals ruling yesterday, it’s all but certain that November voters will have to choose between two pre-K measures: one backed by the city and one by two unions. Rather than fight City Hall, the unions wanted the court to allow voters to choose both measures, but…

Issue #335

Establishment GOP candidate for House to get Hastings’ blessing At a “joint announcement” in Richland on Wednesday morning, outgoing Republican U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings is expected to endorse ex-state agriculture director Dan Newhouse to succeed him in the state’s 4th Congressional District. Newhouse is the GOP establishment’s candidate in a Republican-vs.-Republican runoff for the Central Washington…

Issue #334

Meet the former gang girl who wants to run Las Vegas Politicians love to tout their humble beginnings, but Lucy Flores’ beginnings are of a different order altogether—and her commitment to springing people from the trap of urban poverty is that much greater. Flores, the Democratic candidate for Nevada lieutenant governor, is different—different from the lawmakers…

Issue #333

(Daily Clips will publish Tuesday, September 2. Enjoy Labor Day.) The expanding world of poverty capitalism In Orange County CA the probation department’s “supervised electronic confinement program,” which monitors the movements of low-risk offenders, has been outsourced to a private company, Sentinel Offender Services. The company, by its own account, oversees case management, including breath alcohol and…

Issue #330

Inside the Democrats’ plan to save Arkansas—and the Senate No sign announces the purpose of this little storefront, squeezed between a Bestway Rent to Own and a Rent-a-Center in a dilapidated Pine Bluff shopping center. But the words hand-lettered in black and red marker on three pieces of paper taped to the window—”Register to Vote…

Issue #330

Labor organizing under way at Boeing and MUSC, despite antiunion climate in South Carolina It is famously difficult to start a union in South Carolina. The state has the third-lowest union participation rate in the country, with just 4.7 percent of workers represented by unions. Part of the reason has to do with the Palmetto State’s right-to-work…

Issue #329

Meet 13 Republican climate deniers who want to be president It’s hard to believe, surveying the GOP field of possible presidential nominees, but back in 2008 the parties were not that far apart on climate change. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee, backed cap-and-trade for carbon emissions. After joining his ticket, so did…