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Arts for the City: 80 Years of Public Art in San Francisco
Out this month is a new book telling the rich history of public art in San Francisco. Written by award-winning author, Susan Wels, the book is entitled Arts for …
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It Isn’t Partisan to Fight for Local Journalism
This week Free Press launched a campaign asking the Tribune Company not to sell its eight major daily newspapers to the Koch brothers, the billionaires notorious for funding a …
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EM’s School Closing Game: Tragedy for Students, Community
The School board is in the dark; parents are angry, the community is under threat and students, many of them special needs, face loss. This is the newest round …
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Six Months After Sandy, A Financial Disaster For Homeowners
Problems with insurance claims and loans have turned superstorm Sandy from a natural disaster to a financial one.
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Art Pope Groups Push Extreme ALEC Tax Agenda in North Carolina
New ALEC backed legislations would radically alter how corporations and people pay taxes in the state.
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First “Ag-Gag” Prosecution: This Utah Woman Filmed a Slaughterhouse from the Public Street
The first law suit under the new ALEC backed Ag-Gag bill is underway in Utah, targeting a woman who filmed abuses at a near by slaughterhouse.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Congress Pushes for Unnecessary Tanks Despite Sequester Cuts, and More
In today's On the News segment: The wealth gap has become increasingly racialized, and more.
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Guatemala Genocide Trial Must Resume, Say Human Rights Leaders
If witnesses to the 1980s massacres are forced to re-testify, they'll face risk and strain beyond what they've already overcome in order to speak out.
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Bayer and Syngenta Lobby Furiously Against EU Efforts to Limit Pesticides and Save Bees
New report that links pesticides and declining bee populations is the motivation behind this European campaign.
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Life Under Lockdown at America’s Hunger-Striking Prison Camps
America's offshore war-on-terror prison camp has gone from peaceable routine to hunger-striking nightmare.