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Making Progress: News for a Change, Sept. 22 2008

September 21st, 2008

Veronika will interview Veronica Butcher about green jobs in WNC.  Check out the local Green Jobs Now! here.

Local author Mike Hopping will walk us through the details of the monstrous federal bailout of Wall Street currently being discussed in Congress. $1 trillion seems to be the low-ball estimate at this point, more than has been spent on the war/occupation of Iraq. Check out an interesting article in Harpers magazine here.

Read the draft bill here.


Barry and David will muse on the Polls, the economic Picture, and the many foreign Policy successes of the Bush Administration, and how they can all be looked at as one Pile of…well, you get the idea.

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