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…
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…
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…
(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…
Will wage theft derail Seattle’s $15 minimum wage law? Seattle may soon find that passing a $15 minimum wage was the easy part. The real challenge will be making sure workers actually get what they deserve under the law. In the past eight years, both the Washington legislature and the Seattle City Council have passed laws…
Fox News’ latest phony obsession: Ferguson, gun control, and Second Amendment hypocrisy It may be apocryphal, but the story goes that in 1967, Gov. Ronald Reagan agreed to sign a California gun control law that made it against the law to walk around in public with a loaded gun after he saw a Black Panther…
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…
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…
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…
The Kochs’ plan to beat Harry Reid—if they can Harry Reid’s reelection is more than two years off, but the Koch brothers’ political machine is already methodically laying the groundwork that will be used to try to take him out. The efforts in recent months have been largely subterranean, but they are unmistakable. A handful of…