Check out the animated video created by The Story of Stuff on how corporation become people helped by the Supreme Court decision for Citizens United. We The People – Corporation are People?
Corporate Taxes
April 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Still smarting from Tax Day? Too bad you’re not Sea World! The entertainment destination hasn’t paid any state or federal income taxes since 2009, according to columnist Al Lewis of Dow Jones Newswires. (Yes, Dow Jones.) Here’s another tax tidbit: Over the past three fiscal years, corporate income taxes fell to only 1.2% of the [...]
Nominations being accepted for Cook County Commissions
May 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
There are 33 Cook County Commissions that are accepting nominations to fill vacancies such as: CMAP (Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning) Cook County Board of Ethics Cook County Commission on Women’s Issues Cook County Human Rights Commission Metra (Commuter Rail Board of Commuter Division of RTA) Regional Transportation Authority Check out the website for the [...]
Crisis mappers: Mobile technology helps disaster victims worldwide
May 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Check out this video on the use of low-cost mobile technology, Google maps and a worldwide network of volunteers to create 4636, an emergency response system, that is now used by the U.S Coast Guard, Red Cross and United Nations. PBS Need to Know: Crisis Mapping May 13, 2011 Alison Stewart There are now 6.8 [...]
Celebrating A Death
May 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Posted: 05/ 2/11 12:52 AM ET by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush Religion Editor, Huffington Post It is a strange and conflicting emotion to celebrate a death. My professed beliefs include the redemption of evil and the potential good in all humanity. Yet I felt a sense of exhilaration when I read the headline ‘DEAD’ about Osama [...]
Former Tribune reporter becomes Progress Illinois editor
April 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Take It From A Pro: Words Of Welcome From The New Progress Illinois Editor In Chief Lou Carlozo Monday April 25th, 2011, 4:20pm In my first official duty as the new Editor of Progress Illinois (after filling out the office paperwork), I’m signing on to greet you, the readers, with a quick look at [...]
It’s that time of the decade, again: Redistricting
February 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Illinois Campaign for Political Reform (ICPR) continues to advocate for a more transparent redistricting process which allows for Illinois residents to have input during the once-in-a-decade process of drawing new state House, Senate and Congressional district lines. This week, the U.S. Census bureau is expected to delivered detailed headcount data on Illinois residents, and this [...]
Is THIS Progress, Mr. President?
January 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
The Efficiency Dilemma
January 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
“It is wholly a confusion of ideas to suppose that the economical use of fuel is equivalent to a diminished consumption. The very contrary is the truth.” An English economist named William Stanley Jevons hit upon this principle in 1865, and the subsequent decades have proved him right. Services that were once luxuries, like air [...]
President Obama Says, “Thank You.”
November 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment