Charlie Rose with Evan Bayh, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Ken Duberstein & Chrystia Freeland (January 31, 2006)
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tuesday night's loss in Maine for marriage equality was very disappointing, losing by about 5 percentage points, but the ENDA-like non-discrimination ordinance won in Kalamazoo by an amazing 30 percentage points. The Kalamazoo ordinance covers housing and public accommodations, in addition to the workplace, so its win indicates the high receptivity of non-discrimination as an issue. That should give...
Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Listen to the people. In a Research 2000 poll conducted last weekend, 52 percent of Indiana residents said they favored the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan like Medicare. Another 42 percent opposed the idea.
Workplace Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Interesting take on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) from one of the more moderate Democrats in the Senate, Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) (from an interview with Howey Politics Indiana): I’m for reform of the labor law system. I’ve said...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
U.S. companies may look abroad to fight global warming -- latimes.com U.S. companies could save tens of billions of dollars by investing in efforts to combat deforestation in developing nations instead of cleaning up their own domestic carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report released Wednesday. Changing alliances shape climate-change debate Proponents of climate-change legislation hope the...
Faultline USA (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
By Barbara Sowell This October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, or didn’t you know? A better title would have been: National Cyber Insecurity Awareness Month. We should all be insecure since the U.S. has just relinquished its control of the internet (see below)! This is the time when all internet junkies should ponder the very real possibility of waking up one day to NO internet! A...
Advance Indiana (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
While Indianapolis attorney and former Indiana Secretary of State Joe Hogsett took himself seriously as a Democratic candidate for the 2011 Indianapolis mayor's race, few people within his own party felt the same way. Some wondered why he would think the party would nominate a three-time loser to one of the most coveted political offices in the state. Others wondered why the partners at his law firm...
From On High (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
A lot is made these days about Virginia Senators Mark Warner and James Webb being "moderates." You hear it and read it all the time. Often enough to where it is accepted as being fact by most Virginians. But is it true? Senators Issue Warning on Climate Bill By John M. Broder, New York Times A group of 10 moderate Democrats sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday saying that they will...
2 Political Junkies (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
From The Hill : Senate Democrats on Wednesday banded together to defeat — barely — a Republican proposal to allow concealed weapons to be carried across state lines. Voting 58-39, the chamber beat back an amendment by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a potential presidential hopeful who has taken on a growing role among Senate Republicans, that would have permitted weapons to be transferred from...
Sisyphus (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Matthew Yglesias contemplates the undemocratic representation and Rube Goldberg -esque nature of our national government: …the entire structure of the US Congress with its bicameralism and multiple overlapping committees is biased toward making it easy for concentrated interests to block reform. Between them, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Chuck Schumer, Kristen Gillibrand, Bill Nelson, Dick...
Advance Indiana (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
The wife of U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh pulled down a cool $99,262 in stock and other compensation for being a member of Emmis Communications Board of Directors, one of several publicly-traded companies on which she serves. That's a 43% increase in her compensation at a time the company lost $283.9 million in the most recent fiscal year according to the IBJ's Scott Olson. Collectively, Emmis' management team...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
? PA-Sen : Seems like Joe Sestak cleared his Senate run with his family, as now he only has to run it by the Almighty: "It would take an act of God for me to not get in now," he said on Saturday. Meanwhile, the state's political establishment, led by Ed Rendell, feted Arlen Specter at the state party's quarterly meeting on Friday (with Sestak in attendance). ? FL-Sen : From sitting Senator...
The Hedgehog Blog (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
Hello from beautiful Omaha, Nebraska. (I really do mean that--Omaha is a lovely city with incredibly friendly people. Go Huskers!) I am here visiting on the occasion of my daughter Sara's completion of her 4-year OB/GYN residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Allow me to "shep nachas" as we say in Yiddish. (It means deriving some proud joy in the achievements of one's children.)...
Indy Star (Free subscription) | 04/13/2009
GARY, Ind. -- A group including former Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher and Indiana NAACP chief Barbara Bolling say they're lobbying Sen. Evan Bayh to recommend more minorities for President Obama to name to federal court openings in the state.
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 03/30/2009
No 'right-wing-replicating blind loyalty' to Obama from Dems
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 03/30/2009
Don't Cave On Cramdowns From CongressDaily, via the Wonk Room: "Senate Majority Leader Reid said today he would drop a cram-down provision from a House-passed banking bill if the language threatened to keep the Senate from passing the overall bill....
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