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Trolley wires, by Tony Sampas
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Uncle Dave: ‘Republicans May No Longer Be a Normal Party’
If the debt ceiling talks fail, independents voters will see that Democrats were willing to compromise but Republicans were not. If responsible Republicans don’t take control, independents will conclude that Republican fanaticism caused this default. They will conclude that Republicans are not fit to govern. And they will be right.…
Read More »FDR Signs the National Labor Relations Act ~ July 5, 1935
CIO organizing poster, circa 1935 On this day July 5, 1935 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act, which among other provisions, allowed labor to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining. The National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act (named for its sponsor, Senator Robert…
Read More »Honoring John Adams
I just spent the last few days visiting Washington, DC and many of the wonderful monuments and museums located there. There was the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial and the FDR Memorial. I didn’t make it to the John Adams Memorial, though, probably because there isn’t such…
Read More »Lincoln’s Message to Congress – July 4, 1861
In today’s New York Times “The Opinion Pages” – Harold Holzer reminds us that in that simmering time after the Confederacy opened fire on Fort Sumter in April 1861, after the Baltimore Riots of April 18-19, 1861, after Lincoln ordered a naval blockade of Southern ports and after his call…
Read More »“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate…
Read More »Knee-High by the Fourth of July
Growing up, I often heard the phrase “knee-high by the Fourth of July” when adults talked about the summer prospects for native corn. Yesterday I walked up and down the narrow streets of the Back Central neighborhood between Central and Lawrence streets, which I like to call “The Garden District.”…
Read More »Happy Independence Day ~ July, 4, 2011
Happy Independence Day! Happy Fourth of July!
Read More »Four Sox on A.L. All Star Squad
Read the boston.com bulletin about four Red Sox teammates making the American League All Star Team: Ortiz, Gonzalez, Ellsbury, and Beckett. David Ortiz (dh) and Adrian Gonzalez (1b) made the starting line-up.
Read More »Grim Story from the Job Front in Calif.
The Los Angeles Times today has an article by Michael Hiltzik on its Business pages about BMW closing an auto parts distribution center in Ontorio, Calif. The reporter effectively puts this action in perspective of the national and global economies and bottom-line financial decisionmaking. Read the article here, which I picked up on…
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