Big Coal Grasping for Stimulus Straws
by Elisabeth Kristof / Posted on | No CommentsHere’s an oxymoron if there ever was one: clean coal. Cyrus Reid, conservation director of the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter agrees. In an [...]
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Texas Senators Do Nothing to Save Thousands of Jobs
by Elisabeth Kristof / Posted on | No CommentsThe Temporary Assistance for Needy Family Emergency Fund expired on September 30. Employers are now faced with laying off thousands of workers whose jobs [...]
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by Elisabeth Kristof / Posted on | No CommentsIt’s supplement, Mr. Perry. Not supplant. I know, I know. The words are remarkably similar; yet their meanings are totally opposite. Supplanting education funding [...]
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by Elisabeth Kristof / Posted on | No CommentsGov. Rick Perry likes to go on the campaign trail and denounce the stimulus program. But in a pattern that is becoming all too [...]
Read full postRequiem For an ARRA Intern
by Justin Sedgwick / Posted on | No CommentsThis past summer I had the pleasure of holding an editorial internship with The Texas Observer, where I reported on trends and discrepancies apparent [...]
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