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• The Daily Report

  Gas Tax Holiday: Boon or Bane?

  Evan Miller | Wed, Apr 30th, 2008 | Category: Guests | Tags: obama, clinton, republican, cnn, energy, infrastructure, evan miller, jobs, the new argument, money, oil, construction, highway, hillary, labor, mccain, nominee, taxes, average, christmas | 3

  As families prepare for summer road-trips, lawmakers are wondering if a proposed gas tax holiday will make it easier for travelers to make it out of the city without exhausting their funds for summer fun. The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports.

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• Columnists

  A Global Wake Up Call for Middle America

  Dave Steele | Thu, Apr 10th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | City: Chicago | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, transportation, detroit, economy, infrastructure, chicago, labor, midwest, 1970s, richard longworth | 1

  Richard Longworth wants you to know two things: First, globalization is happening and it will continue to change the world. Second, if you live in the Midwest, you’d better be very afraid about your region’s chances of competing in an increasingly “flat” world. 

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• Headlines

  Union-ited? Sleepless in San Diego, Gas Prices, Canada: South of the Border, but no cigar?

  David Anderson | Wed, Apr 9th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: detroit, obama, clinton, headlines, growth, energy, president, internet, oil, 2008, labor, atlantic, ohio, casino, advertising, david henderson | 0

  Long-awaited voice in primary for PA unions, Detroit mayorial saga, San Diego not staying classy, laptops for all, Canada: now south of the border, $4 gas, What happens in AC, stays in AC, and Botswana looking to U.S. for engineers

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• Columnists

  Immigration and the Sustainable Urban Economy

  Simmons Buntin | Thu, Jan 3rd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: simmons buntin, labor, sustainable urban economy, immigrant employment, immigrant labor | 0

  My mother was an immigrant.  She moved to New York City from Sweden after she married my American father.  His grandparents many generations removed were immigrants, too — they came from Scotland.  I am an immigrant, at least in the regional sense: I moved from Auburn, Alabama to Washington, D.C. to Denver to Germantown, Maryland to Denver to Tucson, Arizona, where I live now.  Most of us are immigrants, I’d wager, whether globally or regionally.  It seems that we all come from somewhere…

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