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What States Can Do for Darfur

PSN on December 14, 2006 - 10:45am

Since the Bush administration first recognized the genocide in Darfur, over 250,000 men, women, and children have died. This number does not count the countless women and children that have been raped or attacked as a result of the Sudanese government's campaign to kill and drive out Darfur's ethnic African populations. The violence and genocide is now spilling over into Chad and the Central African Republic. Yet, even with such horrifying statistics, the situation deteriorates day by day.

Rightwing Fraud Derails Tax Revolt

PSN on September 14, 2006 - 12:21pm

The libertarian movement backed by a super-wealthy New York developer is proving why it hates the government so much: they appear constitutionally unable to follow the law. Howard Rich and his cronies have been behind efforts to clone Colorado's disastrous TABOR spending cap measure, various knock-off proposals based on Oregon's anti-land use planning law Measure 37, and various assaults on the judicial system.

A Convenient Truth: States Can Seize the Lead on Global Warming

PSN on August 28, 2006 - 9:53am

In the groundbreaking film An Inconvenient Truth, Vice President Al Gore makes an impressive case that it is now essential that the world act to prevent the potentially catastrophic implications of global warming. The film could not come at a more critical time. While the planet warms, Washington dawdles. The nation's political elite remains mired in a debate manipulated by powerful energy interests.

ME: Better Numbers on TABOR Spending Cap Proposal

Matt Singer on August 4, 2006 - 7:58am
Earlier polling showed bad news for progressives regarding the TABOR spending cap in Maine facing the electorate this November. Those numbers showed over 70% of the state's voters supporting the ballot measure. New numbers contain significantly better news. The new poll shows the spending measure with support of 54% of the electorate, opposed by 25%, and 21% undecided. Getting voters to "no" is easier than getting voters to "yes" on ballot initiatives.

Progress on the Minimum Wage

PSN on July 20, 2006 - 10:01am
After years of stagnating wages for working Americans and inaction by Congress, legislators and activists across the country are taking the lead in securing higher minimum wages on a state by state basis. They are achieving some outstanding results. Here's where the minimum wage fight stands in a number of states:

ME: Polling Reveals Uphill Struggle to Defeat TABOR

PSN on July 13, 2006 - 10:23am
A new poll in Maine reveals the uphill battle progressives face in educating the public about the dangers of TABOR-style spending caps. The poll reports that nearly three in four voters say they would vote for TABOR if the option was put in front of them today.

SCOTUS Strikes Down Campaign Finance Laws; Public Financing Strongest Constitutional Option

PSN on June 29, 2006 - 10:22am
This week, the Supreme Court struck down Vermont's strict limits on campaign contributions and expenditures by candidates.  In a set of fractured opinions in Randall v. Sorrell, the Court did not put an end to all campaign finance limits but did put a roadblock in the way of anything much more restrictive than most present laws.  So if there is going to be more serious reform to lessen the power of special interest money in politics, the only real remaining route to reform are systems of public financing of elections like Maine and Arizona.

The Taxpayers' Bill of Goods

PSN on June 19, 2006 - 12:50pm
With the 2006 elections quickly approaching, a small group of highly energized right-wing activists are working hard to export a failed policy from Colorado to other states around the nation. The idea is known variously as the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights (TABOR), the Stop OverSpending Amendment (SOS), or as Tax and Spending Control (TASC). Fundamentally, though, all of the amendments boil down to a single policy idea: arbitrarily capping increases in state spending based on only two factors -- population growth and the consumer price index.

Anti-TABOR Forces Get Boost From Maine Court

PSN on April 6, 2006 - 12:48pm

In states across the country, the far-right is pushing "TABOR" measures based on Colorado's now infamous spending cap. The Colorado model that capped spending increases at a rate equal to population growth plus inflation and that ratcheted down spending in recession years, is now being largely eschewed by the right following voter rescindment of the awful legislation in Colorado.

ME: TABOR Off the Ballot?

Matt Singer on April 4, 2006 - 8:13pm
A coordinated movement on the right to erect arbitrary spending caps modeled on Colorado's failed TABOR has suffered a setback in Maine, where a judge ruled that petitioners failed to submit enough signatures by the proper deadline. The Maine Citizen Leadership Fund and its allies that are spearheading the opposition campaign issued a press release today making it clear that they will continue to educate the public in Maine about the danger of attempting to replicate Colorado's failed e