by admin | Dec 15, 2008 | NPR, The Mass Media |
Early last week at around the same time that my neighbor fell asleep at the wheel, taking out my mailbox in the process (about 1:30am), I got an email from a friend in Europe. News and Notes had been cancelled. I’ve been a fan of NPR now going back over twenty...
by admin | Dec 13, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism |
GM doesn’t have enough money to go through the year. Chrysler is for all intents and purposes a dead man walking. Ford has enough, but if the other two go out, then who knows? In following the talk about the bailout I hear a lot more resentment in this case than...
by admin | Dec 12, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Neoliberalism, Obama |
We hit the Illinois Pay-for-Play scandal hard on the Barbershop. For me it was the most ghetto version of the politics as business model that we’ve been infected with at least since the Reagan era. “Running the city like a business”, the idea of...
by admin | Dec 8, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama, Urban Politics |
DETROIT — The Sunday service at Greater Grace Temple began with the Clark Sisters song “I’m Looking for a Miracle” and included a reading of this verse from the Book of Romans: “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be...
by admin | Dec 7, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama, things that make you go hmm |
Unofficially our unemployment rate is 12.5% the highest in recent record. And if we consider UNDERemployment rates we’re in even poorer shape. This is how Obama responds: On the heels of more grim unemployment news, President-elect Barack Obama yesterday offered...
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