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  The Burden of Black Women

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Mar 24th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, transportation, news, obama, clinton, education, foreclosure, president, mortgage, politicians, color, democrat, gender, black women | 0

  Racism, sexism, foreclosure rates, economic woes - today in America, black women continue to endure the hardest trials with minimal support. As the presidential election approaches, the role of the black woman in society is starting to be recognized as both democratic candidates represent the mark of the “ism.” Let’s hope they’re not abandoned on November 5.

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  Setting the record straight on Reagan

  Jeffrey Hill | Fri, Jan 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, obama, barack obama, republican, democrat, sacred cow, aids, ann coulter, ronald reagan, reagan doctrine, war on drugs, reaganomics | 5

  Am I the only one who thinks it’s ridiculous that Ronald Reagan has become sacred cow of the 2008 presidential election? It’s not just conservatives, it’s everyone! Pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter have always fawned over the “Big Gipper.” That’s expected—they live in Reagan’s fantasy. This morning, however, I woke up to an incredible nightmare. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read this quote from Barack Obama in an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal:

  “Ronald Reagan…

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  Giuliani on Immigration

  Mike Muller | Fri, Nov 23rd, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: mike muller, election 2008, democrat, george w. bush, giuliani, tom tancredo, guiliani on immigration, borderstat, rio grande valley | 1

  Halting illegal immigration; Encouraging legal immigration; A long (sometimes conflicting) record on the subject.

  The Texas-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley served as the backdrop for former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani this Monday as he spoke about his plans to deal with illegal immigration. Giuliani’s goals are to secure the border, document all non-citizens coming into and out of America, and focus on deporting criminal immigrants here illegally. But while the…

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  Las Vegas’s Impact on the Election

  Mike Muller | Tue, Nov 20th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: mike muller, republican, las vegas, nevada, democrat, hispanic voters, las vegas impact on election | 0

  PBS’s NewsHour has kicked off an election series called ”Big Picture Cities.” In it, they will travel to various cities around the country to delve into the issues there and discuss how they will affect presidential elections. The series starts off with Las Vegas, which recently hosted the latest Democratic debate.

  The Republican and Democratic parties decided to advance the Nevada caucuses so they are the second state in the nation to hold them, increasing the importance of the state…

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  Hillary Clinton’s Plan to ‘Rebuild America’

  Mike Muller | Tue, Nov 6th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: mike muller, hillary clinton, democrat, national infrastructure bank, rebuild america, national infrastructure band, plan to rebuild america, national construction alliance | 0

  A “Silent Crisis”, An Increase in Infrastructure Funds, A Little Fib About Broadband, and An Infrastructure Bank
  

  The nation’s bridges, tunnels, and roads are facing a ”silent crisis,” said Hillary Clinton last August, in Rochester, New Hampshire. “It’s a crisis with the potential of not only death and injury, property loss and other kinds of dangers and inconveniences, but it is imperative that we address this crisis for our economy.”

  “Not only [the] bridge collapse in Minneapolis…

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  The Presidential Urban Agenda: A national approach to the problems cities face

  Mike Muller | Wed, Oct 31st, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: mike muller, democrat, presidential urban agenda, urban agenda, brookings institute, national urban league, city mayors, us conference of mayors | 0

  Planning. Global warming. Infrastructure. “Urban” as a synonym for “black.”
  

  What, exactly, is an urban agenda? The issues of particular concern to urban dwellers also affect the nation as a whole. It can mean different things to different people in different election years. And individual cities face their own unique problems.

  To try and shape the definition of an urban platform and stress the importance of urban policy to the rest of the country, some individuals and organizations…

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