Clarence Clemons, “The Big Man” has passed away from complications from a stroke suffered last Sunday. He was 69. Clemons “jovial onstage manner, soul-rooted style and brotherly relationship with Mr. Springsteen made him one of rock’s most beloved sidemen.” Clemons roots in music was Gospel as the grandson of a Baptist preacher. He was a former college football player who had been playing sax since he was nine. He will be missed… From the beginnings of the E Street Band...
By VALERIE BURCH Mohammed Uddin lived in New York City for 15 out of his 41 years. Back in Bangladesh, he wouldn’t be able to get the life-sustaining heart medication he takes daily for a rare form of severe hypertension called Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. On the tarmac at Harrisburg International Airport on May 13, 2008, about to begin the arduous journey back to Bangladesh, his blood pressure soared and he lost consciousness. Tioti Tong was crewing the Cap San Augustin...
The House Appropriations Committee has become the meat grinder of the federal budget. Along with their counterparts over in the Senate, House appropriators are the lawmakers who most closely control government spending. Since Republicans have controlled the House spending panel, they’ve used it to whack at the federal budget, again and again. Many of its targets — from legal aid to the poor, to hunger prevention for women and children — are just the sort of social programs one...
Robert Reich connects the dots on the economy… Take two and a half minutes and watch this awesome video from Robert Reich: The Truth About the Economy: Somethings got to give… Americans need jobs. Let’s get moving on this Congress… Mr. President! Politicians need to not be acting like, “hey wake me when the recession is over.” Sphere: Related Content
Republican candidate for president, Mitt Romney’s net worth is about $200 million, yet he thought it would be funny joke to a group of unemployed folks that he is also unemployed: Romney’s “unemployed” gaff should come back to haunt him for the duration of his campaign. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC Chair, released the following statement after Mitt Romney told a group of unemployed Floridians that he’s “also unemployed” and equated his campaign for president with the search for a...
On Thursday, Newton, MA mayor Setti Warren’s U.S. Senate campaign announced that eight Massachusetts mayors have endorsed Warren for his run to replace republican Senator Scott Brown. The mayors that endorsed Setti Warren include Mayor Thatcher Kezer of Amesbury, Mayor Joe O’Brien of Worcester, Mayor Robert Dolan of Melrose, Mayor Mary Clare Higgins of Northampton, Mayor William Manzi of Methuen, Mayor James Ruberto of Pittsfield, Mayor Michael Tautznik of Easthampton and Mayor Lisa Wong of Fitchburg. “I am especially...
Congressman Anthony Weiner resigned from the House today: Mr. Weiner made the decision after long and emotional discussions with his political advisers and his wife, Huma Abedin, whom friends described as devastated by the behavior of her husband of 11 months, and worried about the couple’s financial future. In a chaotic four-minute news conference at a senior center in his district, Mr. Weiner, 46, strained to be heard as a small group of hecklers hollered vulgar questions at him...
A bipartisan group of senators is racheting up pressure on President Obama to begin drawing down U.S. forces in Afghanistan. One member of that group, longtime Sen. Patrick Leahy, has gone so far as to compare the ongoing war there to the failed conflict decades ago in Vietnam. Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and 24 other senators sent a letter to President Obama Wednesday calling for a shift in strategy in Afghanistan...
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