UPDATE: A memorial service for Midge Costanza has been scheduled at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 24, 2010 at the Town & Country Hotel, 500 Hotel Circle N. in the Mission Valley area of San Diego. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made to the Midge Costanza Institute for the Study [...]

Editor’s note: We try to provide background information that makes it easy for our readers to get up to speed on the important, and complicated, issues that dominate the public policy discussion. After passing health reform, the national agenda will turn to new topics. We have prepared for two: immigration and financial regulation. We have [...]

by Charles Cleveland Murray Hill, Inc., a progressive PR firm in Maryland, is making a bid to be the first corporate member of Congress.  Their effort appears to be tongue-in-cheek, with the aim of calling attention to the potential consequences of the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission, which gives domestic and foreign corporations the green [...]

It would do any liberal/progressive/Democrat good to read the blistering op-ed in the Washington Post online edition today (Friday, March 12). Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines takes on the allegedly “fair and balanced” Fox News cable channel. But he also targets the mainstream news media for not challenging what he calls “a [...]

Air America, the only national liberal voice available to free radio listeners, has gone off the air. In an announcement posted to its website yesterday, the service said it would file for bankruptcy “to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.” The closure ends a six-year run and leaves yet another gap in the [...]

Liberty One Radio will announce Jan. 4th that it has completed its SEC filings and is now ready to accept investors. The enterprise had previously said it would be “on the air” with progressive radio in the San Diego area on that date. “Broadcasting will begin in a few weeks,” says the announcement, “and full-time [...]

Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, Americans across the country will sit down together, count our blessings, and give thanks for our families and our loved ones. American families reflect the diversity of this great nation. No two are exactly alike, but there is a common thread they each share.

by Chris Nava, VP for Political Action From NOW (National Organization for Women) we get an alert about two amendments regarding sex education that were tucked into the Senate Finance Committee health care legislation: one by Chair Max Baucus authorizing federal funding for comprehensive sex education programs and one by Senator Hatch to restore funds for [...]