OUR MAN IN MAINE: Organizing the Last-Minute Push

Posted October 30, 2009 by Paul Hogarth

SOUTH PORTLAND – I arrived in Maine yesterday for the last week of the campaign, just as Daily Kos released a new poll showing Question 1 behind 48-47, a statistical dead heat. Every vote will count, and it will be
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“9500 Liberty” Comes to the Sundance Kabuki

Posted October 30, 2009 by E. "Doc" Smith

Last night at the Sundance Kabuki on Fillmore, saw the premiere of “9500 Liberty”, a compelling documentary by filmmakers Annabel Park and Eric Byler. Hosted by Citizen Hope, NDN, Netroots Nation and DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas, 9500 Liberty chronicles the
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Von Trier’s “Antichrist” Shocks, But Fails to Move Us

Posted October 30, 2009 by Matt Zakosek

Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark is a masterpiece I never want to see again. The Björk-starring anti-musical is as emotionally devastating as movies get. His Breaking the Waves, which introduced the world to Emily Watson, is similarly affecting.
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November “Remarkable!”; Mrs. Whitley “Love Bites”; Creature “Riveting!”; Bronson Movie “Raw, Scary!”

Posted October 30, 2009 by Buzzin' Lee Hartgrave

NOVEMBER IS ON FIRE — AND THEY ROAST POLITICOS DAVID MAMET’S PLAY “NOVEMBER” IS A FARCE that is probably more “true” than not. Just what does go on in the Oval Office? It could be like this: It’s November in
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Unions Eating their Own; Land Grabs in California; South Carolina Episcopals …

Posted October 30, 2009 by

To the Editor: Union workers comprise 12% of the U.S. workforce. That means that 88% of all those who toil for wages are not organized. While the labor movement has succeeded in raising the living standards for everyone, union workers
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Maine Question 1 Going Down to the Wire

Posted October 29, 2009 by Paul Hogarth

School Beat: The Nation Should Listen to Youth Voices from Chicago

Posted October 29, 2009 by Lisa Schiff

Chicago is the virtual epicenter for transformations in education policy right now. With both President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan hailing from that metropolis, it is only natural to look to the recent history of Chicago Public Schools
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Repeal the Insurance Industry’s Antitrust Exemption

Posted October 29, 2009 by Ralph Stone

President Barack Obama spoke at Texas A&M University on October 16. He said health insurance companies are trying to kill healthcare reform, no matter the cost to the country. Now is the time to repeal the repeal McCarran- Ferguson Act,
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