Author: SCM

From the Progress Report: Following a six-month long investigative research project, the Center for American Progress released a 130-page report on Friday, which reveals that more than $42 million from seven foundations over the...

We’ve written before about how the U.S. became a gambling nation almost overnight and without any real debate about the pros and cons.  That’s why Neal Peirce’s recent column for Citiwire caught our attention:...

From Los Angeles Times: No one could argue that the latest green spaces to grace The City are a far more modest proposal. The two bright-red dumpsters, 16 feet long by nearly 6 feet wide and filled with greenery, have been...

From Salon: Increasingly the battle between left and right in the United States has become a second War Between the States. Red states claim they are picking up domestic migrants and industries from blue states because the...

From City Journal: Central Park in spring may be the most glorious public space on Earth. Flowering dogwoods and lilacs scent the air as children, sprung from being cooped up all winter, pack the playgrounds. Bicyclists and...

From Seattle Times: You want green? There’s never been anything greener. The Bullitt Center, which celebrates its official groundbreaking Monday, has been designed to produce as much energy as it consumes. Provide all its...

From ProPublica: With increasing signs that the economy is laboring, most economists agree that a short-term infusion of spending, or an extension of this year’s temporary cut in Social Security taxes, could help fend off...

http://www.alternet.org/story/152148/the_founding_fathers_believed_in_redistributing_wealth_–_why_do_tea_party_heroes_like_perry_and_bachmann_vilify_it From AlterNet: American conservatives have lurched so far to the right...

From Crosscut: Our fractured metropolitan regions are the big problem in creating sustainable solutions for climate challenges. High-towered, dense city living is only a small part of the solution, which is to develop...