February 2011

What will the world look like in 2050?  Well – according to scientists attending a conference yesterday with the American Association for the Advancement of Science – the planet will be “unrecognizable.” With a population over 9 billion by then – we’ll have to produce more food in the next 40 years than has been produced in the last 8,000 years.  And as income in the developing world is supposed to increase – more people will be eating

Democratic state senators in Wisconsin are still AWOL – preventing Republicans lawmakers from passing Governor Walker’s union-busting legislation that will strip state workers of their collective bargaining rights.  As one Senator told the Washington Post – “We're going to be staying away until we hear that [the Republicans] are taking the right to organize seriously.” As a sign of solidarity with the 25,000 protestors who showed up outside the stat

Protests in Wisconsin are expected to continue today for the third day in a row.  Yesterday - Madison, Wisconsin was nearly shut down as ten thousand protestors assembled outside the state capital to protest Governor Scott Walker’s proposal to strip state workers union of their collective bargaining powers in an effort to balance his state’s budget.  40% of teachers working in the Madison school district called in sick to attend the protest – f

• Are child labor laws unconstitutional?
• John Nichols, Washington Correspondent - The Nation Magazine, Associate Editor-Capitol Times, author. Will the Republicans win the Wisconsin war on Labor?
• Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, Professor of Medicine-Dartmouth Institute for Health; Author-"Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health". Overdiagnosed...are we making people sick in the pursuit of health?