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    May 10, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  1. Graduates must resist the urge for simplicity

    Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world into...

    Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Yale University, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Graduation

    2. Dec 12, 2012 |Column| Hartford Courant

  2. Right-to-Work Battle Inches Toward Connecticut

    The Hartford Courant
    Connecticut in some ways resembles Michigan, a high-wage industrial state with about the same proportion of union membership as of 2011 -- 17.7 percent here, 18.3 percent there, compared with 11.8 percent for the nation. A year ago, heck, six weeks ago,...

    Tags: Unions, Economic Policy, United Auto Workers, Government, Labor Legislation

    3. Dec 30, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  3. The middle class languishes as the super-rich thrive

    The good news for the U.S. economy as we enter 2013 is that the election's over. The bad news is that the election's over.
    The good news for the U.S. economy as we enter 2013 is that the election's over. The bad news is that the election's over. What's good about it is that both parties in Washington can shed their preoccupation with the campaign theatrics that dominated...

    Tags: Parent Organizations, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Social Security, Elections

    4. Oct 29, 2012 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  4. Big bird, BS and birth control

    WASHINGTON -- We shouldn't be talking about this silliness -- Big Bird, "bull -- er," or a girl's "first time."
    WASHINGTON -- We shouldn't be talking about this silliness -- Big Bird, "bull -- er," or a girl's "first time." We should be talking about The Issues, we keep telling ourselves. But in the waning days of the presidential campaign, these are the issues --...

    Tags: Christianity, Todd Akin, Religion and Belief, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Incest

    5. Oct 20, 2012 |Column| Baltimore Sun

  5. Voting to give more money to millionaires

    As I drove by the old Playhouse cinema on 25th Street in Baltimore the other day, I thought of the hapless fellow I encountered on the screen there in the 1970s — Nino, the lead character in "Bread and Chocolate," a comedy about a poor Italian waiter who tries to make a living among the affluent of Switzerland.
    As I drove by the old Playhouse cinema on 25th Street in Baltimore the other day, I thought of the hapless fellow I encountered on the screen there in the 1970s — Nino, the lead character in "Bread and Chocolate," a comedy about a poor Italian...

    Tags: Prince George's County, Personal Income, Voting, Human Interest, Barack Obama

    6. Aug 16, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  6. AP analysis: Economic recovery is weakest since World War II

    Blog-o-nomics - Orlando Sentinel
    Bad news for President Barack Obama in the form of a new Associated Press analysis of the economic recovery. AP says this recovery is the weakest of any since World War II, hobbled by problems that refuse to go away quickly. A few key paragraphs from...
    7. May 15, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  7. Venezuela's Maduro buries hatchet with billionaire businessman

    Reuters
    * Dispute a bellwether of state-business tensions * Maduro and Empresas Polar vow to work together * New president faces tricky economic panorama By Diego Ore CARACAS, May 15 (Reuters) - Socialist leader Nicolas Maduro and the billionaire boss of...

    Tags: Elections, Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, Government, Petroleum Industry

    8. May 15, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. The job market is bad enough; why add immigration reform?

    Years ago it was unthinkable that smart, ambitious and college-educated young people would have trouble finding entry level work ("Slow start," May 12). Today, this youthful demographic has been simultaneously dumped on a shrinking employment market and...

    Tags: U.S. Department of State, Ocean City, Immigration

    9. May 13, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. To the Class of 2013: Resist simplicity

    Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you.
    Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world that...

    Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Yale University, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Graduation

    10. May 13, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  10. Venezuelan food firm tells Maduro government to boost output

    Reuters
    By Brian Ellsworth CARACAS, May 13 (Reuters) - Venezuela's top food producer, Empresas Polar, on Monday challenged the country's socialist government to boost output of basic staples and ease nagging product shortages, rejecting accusations it is...

    Tags: Nicolas Maduro, Government, Consumer Goods Industries, Politics, Hugo Chavez

    11. May 13, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  11. COLUMN - The growing Franco-German schism

    Reuters
    (Frederick Kempe is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Frederick Kempe May 13 (Reuters) - Occasionally a public opinion survey surfaces that signals a seismic event. That is the case with a new report from the Pew Research Center that...

    Tags: Czech Republic, Francois Hollande, European Union, The New York Times, Public Finance

    12. May 9, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  12. INTERVIEW-Syria war could push Lebanon, Jordan into slump

    Reuters
    * Lebanon economy shrinks 1 pct for every 5 pct drop in Syria * Rebuilding damaged Syrian homes would cost $28 billion * War turning Syria in economic "disaster zone" By Dominic Evans BEIRUT, May 9 (Reuters) - The economic devastation of Syria's war...

    Tags: Bashar Assad, National Government, Labor Markets, Government, Lebanon

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