Steelworkers and Mine Workers Pick Edwards
HAPPY LABOR DAY to all!Today, in Pittsburgh, John Edwards will receive the endorsement of two major labor unions: the United Steelworkers (USW) and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). The...
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Edwards Evening News Round-up: Transformational Leadership
If it's Thursday, it must be my turn to bring you the news about John Edwards' campaign! I love Thursdays - or as a dear friend calls it, Thor's Day!I was just reading an article by historian Eric...
View ArticleRev. Yearwood Arrested at Petreaus hearing
This will be a short diary, mostly because I'm absolutely shaking with fury about this.I just learned that Rev. Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus was arrested for standing in line to enter the Petreaus...
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Edwards Evening News Round-Up: Dignity, Independence and Middle-Class Values...
It's been a fine but busy day for the Edwards camp, with comments on children's health insurance and the march in Jena, LA to the Iowa AARP Presidential Forum tonight to some wonderful diaries here on...
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Edwards at Kaiser Foundation Health Care Forum
I had the opportunity today to attend the press conference following the Kaiser Foundation's Presidential Health Care Forum. (H/T to Tracy Joan of the Edwards campaign for getting me in.) I thought...
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Edwards Evening News Round-Up: Let's Hear It for the Youth Vote Edition
Two days ago, the campaigns were chugging right along. And then boom, in less than 24 hours, John Edwards was before the country with the other seven Democratic candidates at Dartmouth--where he did,...
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Edwards Evening News Round-Up: Small-Town America Edition
You know, some days it's just imposssible to keep up with all the activities of the Edwards campaign.But every night, we bring you at least a slice of the comings-and-goings of the most progressive...
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Edwards Evening News Round-Up: Education and Youth Edition
Today, John Edwards began his Education swing through South Carolina, highlighting his vision for rural schools and communities. There's more going on, as usual, so tonight let's focus on our...
View ArticleACTION Alert: Override SCHIP Veto!
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, millions of Americans will call their Representatives and urge them to overturn the Bush veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP, pronounced...
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SCHIP: The Children are our Future
"Poor children are not disposable. My cousin died at age 16 from a 'cold and cough' ... and my aunt's inability to obtain an x-ray that would have shown the tumor crushing his lungs and heart. Despite...
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Edwards Evening News Round-Up: True Blue Edition
What is it with Thursdays and the Edwards campaign? It is definitely not the "slow" day for John Edwards! Between his statement on Republicans blocking health insurance for children and the new "True...
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Edwards Evening News Round-Up: Wildfires and Work Edition
For most of the country, this has been a week like any other; on Capitol Hill, well let's not go there just yet. But in Southern California, it's been hell. So I want to start tonight's edition of EENR...
View ArticleToward a New Progressive Era
A conservative president who is deeply unpopular with Americans. A country facing profound economic and security challenges. New technologies upending old media. A cohort of new immigrants and a...
View ArticleJackpot! for Polluters
According to Friends of the Earth, global warming legislation proposed by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CN) and John Warner (R-VA) will provide corporate polluters with a windfall of new subsidies should it...
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Edwards Evening News Round-Up: American Heroes Edition
I have a few heroes in my life. My mother is one. She was a divorced single mother in Georgia over 60 years ago, at a time when that simply wasn't done. Even after she married my father and they...
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ACTION: Support the Nurses of Appalachia
The legacy of John L. Lewis lives in the daily lives of the people of Appalachia. This legendary labor unionist was not the first president of the United Mine Workers of America, but he is perhaps the...
View ArticleEdwards: "End 'preventive war' doctrine"
In a major foreign policy speech in Iowa City today, Senator John Edwards will outline his strategy to contain Iran, leading with the repudiation and replacement of the neocon doctrine of 'preventive...
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Edwards Evening News Round-Up: Pre-Debate/Misc. Edition
Usually by Thursday, I have a theme in mind for EENR but this week, one is eluding me. Maybe it's because I can feel the excitement building as we gain momentum less than 2 months away from Iowa's...
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ON OUR WATCH: International Failure - Frontline tonight
Tonight, at 9:00 pm ET, PBS's award-winning show FRONTLINE will air On Our Watch, a moving and disturbing look at the failure of the international community to live up to its promise at the end of...
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Edwards Evening News Round-Up: Gathering Storm Edition
Saturdays aren't my usual day for the Edwards Evening News, and so I was excited to have an opportunity to host a weekend edition. Excited until I noticed that there isn't much news out of the...
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