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What were voters thinking? A look at midterm election results
Voters were angry, distrustful of political insiders and worried about
government spending - at least that's the narrative provided by the ...
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It's Election Day! Abe and Joe bring you the lowdown.
As the Republic lurches through the first Election Day of the post-Citizens
United era, Abe and Joe run down the races and ballot measures in Portland
and around the nation.
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Vote, dammit! Abe and Joe run down the ballot initatives for the Nov. 2
election.
Got ballot measures? Oh, yes you do. Abe and Joe parse the initiatives up
for a yea or nay vote in the November 2 election in Portland. Also, FOX News
stinks.
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Tom Becker reads from Paul Krugman's October 14th Op-Ed in the New York
Times, "The Mortgage Morass," which reflects on a wave of potentially illegal
home-seizures and how this takes us back to "the days when noblemen felt free
to take whatever they wanted, knowing that...
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Bill Resnick talks with Janice Thompson of Common Cause about
publicly-financed politics and voter-owned elections, and specifically how
Portland Ballot 26-108 ensures them.
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Today's Old Mole - hosted by Tom Becker - features conversations about
alternative electoral systems emerging in the US; the relationship between
domestic violence and economic hardship; voter-owned elections; and horror
stories of defrauded home-owners.
Below are link...
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We heard from Shawn Carnahan, who provided updates on Mumia Abu-Jamal, and
Erika Spaet who shared the position Partnership, Safety and Justice has taken
on some of the the November election issues.
If you appreciate Prison Pipeline and the other fine programs presented on ...
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Positively Revolting guest author David C. Korten discusses moving on from
this economy that is broken, to a new economics based on the real wealth of
strong communities, shared prosperity, a healthy environment, and citizen
democracy.
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Ballot measures and bucks: a look at the scramble for tax dollars
New emergency response systems for the fire bureau. Funding for the
historical society. Additional revenue to cover mand...
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Prologue
The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in
sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending
them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the
mass dumb...
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