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In a Recession, Should States Raise Taxes Or Slash Spending?
I appeared on Your World with Neil Cavuto yesterday to talk taxes. This follows my recent CNBC debate with Grover Norquist on the same issue just a few weeks ago. Cavuto, of course, was much less partisan than Norquist...
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Will the Elite Pay Their Fair Share?
New York, home to the wealthiest people in human history, is now facing a major budget problem, forcing the new Gov. David Paterson to decide whether to gut health care and social services for the poor, or raise taxes on...
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Poll: States, Not Feds, Should Take Lead on Health Care
There has been a long running debate among progressives about what arena is the best to push health care reform. Should the solution come from states or from the federal government? Some in Washington, D.C. have said that states should...
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States as the Check and Balance Against Federal Inaction
We have been trained to think of states as the supposed "laboratories of democracy," but what they really are these days are a check and balance against federal inaction and Potomac Fever. That's the case I make in my newspaper...
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Ballot Initiatives Aim to Raise Swing-State Turnout In '08
Back a few years ago, conservatives were considered tactical geniuses for putting anti-gay-marriage initiatives on the ballot as a way to drive up Republican turnout in critical elections. Whether their ploy worked to do that or not is an open...
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Minnesota Progressives Override Veto
Minnesota progressives should get a lot of credit for having the guts to override their right-wing governor's budget veto. This is what responsible government looks like....
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Big Win for Public Financing
Big win in Washington State....
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How Bush's New Budget Affects Your State
The National Priorities Project has the details here....
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Washington State Moves Toward Public Financing
The Washington State legislature just made a potentially huge move. Details here....
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How Can States Can Deal With the Foreclosure Crisis?
The Progressive States Network has a new report answering that question....
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States & Stealth Privatization
The Progressive States Network released a big report last week on the Right's stealth agenda to use state legislative arenas to privatize as many state services as possible. This is a huge issue, and one that gets very little attention....
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States & Stealth Privatization
The Progressive States Network released a big report this week on the Right's stealth agenda to use state legislative arenas to privatize as many state services as possible. This is a huge issue, and one that gets very little attention....
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Spitzer Shows How States Can Take Lead In Fighting Toxic Toys
The Albany Project has the details on Gov. Eliot Spitzer's (D) move....
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Circumventing the Tyranny of the Tiny Minority
If you are in Denver tomorrow, 10/16, please attend the big town hall meeting on health care. Details and RVSP here. - D A few weeks ago, I wrote a column called The Tyranny of the Tiny Minority that which...
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OP-ED: On Health Care, States Must Lead
The San Francisco Chronicle today published a great op-ed from the Washington State Senator Karen Keiser and Progressive States Network health policy analyst Adam Thompson. The piece explores how and why states are leading the way in expanding health care,...
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Where Hedge Funds Meet Retirement Security
Where do hedge fund shenanigans meet issues of retirement security for regular folks? At the state level, as Businessweek reports. And the ramifications might be disastrous....
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Will Wisconsin Be the First State With Universal Health Care?
In These Times magazine has a new report from Wisconsin, where the state senate passed the most comprehensive universal health care bill that any state legislative chamber has ever passed. As the proposal known as Health Wisconsin moves to the...
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Memo to Cons: States Still Exist In Tom Friedman's World
My Denver Post blog colleague David Harsanyi today falls prey to what has become a fairly typical and, frankly, boring media meme - the one about how only the Very Serious Foreign Policy People in Washington should have any say...
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As States Lead On Health Care, D.C. Elites Say Only D.C. Elites Can Save America
Only in Washington, D.C. can people look at data, success and advances in America's states, and still insist that only the Beltway's Wise Old Men, Serious Policy Experts, Self-Described Political Gurus and Universe-Rescuing Pundit Superheroes can solve our country's problems....
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Obama's Big Opportunity To Expose the Extremist Machine
Two and a half years ago, I joined in what would become the successful efforts to create the Progressive States Network - an organization designed to both support progressive state legislators and fight back against right wing extremists that have...
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EVENT & REPORT: Lawmakers To Discuss New Report On Progressive State Gains THURSDAY
Much of the national media debate and political activism in our country focuses almost exclusively on Congress and the federal government, but as a brand new report from the Progressive States Network shows, progressives used state legislatures this year to...
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About David Sirota
David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover. He lives in Denver, Colorado. His daily blog can be found at CREDO Action. He contributes regularly to the Denver Post's Web site, is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and is working on his second book. He has been profiled in Newsweek and the Rocky Mountain News and is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. Sirota serves as co-chair of the Progressive States Network, a 501(c)3 organization that supports state legislators and that is a partner of CREDO.
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