I used to think I was cool Running around on fossil fuel Until I saw what I was doing Was riding on the road to ruin. --James Taylor If Karl Marx taught the world worth anything of unquestionable value, it's was the idea that social … [Read more...]

There's a great scene in the movie The Third Man. The villain Harry Lime and his erstwhile friend Holly Martins are on a ferris wheel looking down on the people below. Holly asks Harry Lime, who has been making a lot of money stealing, … [Read more...]

These days there is very little journalism than covers labor issues. No one is talking about it. Like collective bargaining itself, news concerning labor is scarce. Tennessee workers' rejection of the unionization of a Volkswagen plant is … [Read more...]

“You give a worker an inch, and he’ll take an ell.” --Misquoted from Frederick Douglass Freedom to associate? Fuggedaboutit. Freedom to make contracts? Not if George Will has anything to do about it. Free markets? Not when it concerns … [Read more...]

Robocalls. The last refuge of the desperate. You don't want to listen. They have nothing to say. And if you're accustomed to fielding a few candidate phone calls every week, they are really awful. I'm a supervoter and a potential convention … [Read more...]

 “Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.” --Charles Lamb Although I don't question the findings, the Final Report of Treasurer Grossman’s Online Products Task Force is an odd document, in part for its conclusions, but also for its … [Read more...]

The state lottery may not be an issue for the state party. It's not mentioned in our platform. Few, if any candidates, have made its abolition a stump issue. The very people we'd like to protect from the lottery will be the very people most … [Read more...]

Our resident troll's latest Obamacare prevarication is instructive, not for the light it shines on ACA enrollments (it sheds none), but for insight into the right-wing noise machine. In this case, the process starts with a client of … [Read more...]

An Act to Improve Quality in Early Education Care Centers S223\H477 Lead Sponsors Sen. Sal N. DiDomenico & Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez At BMG we've been talking a lot about poverty and how we can address it. Quality early education is … [Read more...]

Our attitude toward the poor is a portrait of our souls. It's not a simple portrait. It's one that take's contemplation. After all, poverty is complex and so are we. It's been almost 2000 years since Jesus was supposed to have said, … [Read more...]