UPDATE: how Paul Allen affects UW Presidential search. I have a proposal: why doesn’t Paul Allen just buy the UW and make it the NW version of Harvard? I do not know what tax rate Billionaire Paul Allen pays, but the typical rate in his bracket is 15%! On the Tom Hartmann show, see Rep[...]
Posts Tagged ‘poverty’
Keeping WA State Kids Out of Medical School!
Cutbacks in state funding of public universities are leading faculty and administration to one form or another of privatization. What does this mean for kids in any state that now has a prestigious, world class public school? What does it mean for Washington State? A good way to find out is to com[...]
Women’s Rights Under Attack as IWD Turns 100
While waves of democratic demands sweep across North Africa and the Mideast, rights that women have come to take for granted in the last generation are under attack here in the U.S. Under the banner of the astroturf Tea Party, Republicans have been busily untying all corners of the social safety net[...]
Perhaps the experience of losing a war, and perhaps two more, has left the soul of our people and our leaders wondering about the worth of our most valuable strengths.
Ed. This was originally posted on the AAUP listserv. I have left the authors’ identity confidential because of concerns of responses from administration. Our country seems to be fatally wounded. Perhaps the experience of losing a war, and perhaps two more, has left the soul of our people a[...]
February 28th, 2011 - 6:34 pm § in Politics
Gadhafi Remains A Friend
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that he considers Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi a friend and won’t distance himself from him despite the deadly crackdown on protesters in the turbulent North Africa c ountry. Farrakhan didn’t talk specifics about the uprisings in Liby[...]
February 25th, 2011 - 3:39 am § in Politics
OLYMPIA: Preserving the rights of poor people to live
from Public News Service Private aircraft owners are already vowing to fight the one-half percent tax on their planes. OLYMPIA, Wash. – Battling to keep social-service programs such as the Basic Health Plan alive in Washington, advocates are saying that corporations or groups that benefit from[...]
December 29th, 2010 - 11:26 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Third World America, II
see also Part I: going to school on a Native American Reservation. Robert Reich’s summary of the woes of our declining education system seems almost a continuation of the story in Part 1 of a young American trying to get an education under the third world standards of life on an Indian reserva[...]