Thirty-five years ago, I began a career in commercial real estate lending. Within just a few weeks of starting, I was given the assignment to meet, by myself, with an attorney representing another lender. It was the first experience I had meeting with an attorney. The attorney I met with was Greg Bell. In the 35 years since, I have dealt with Greg on numerous business matters and he became for ...
Rally tells Abbott to welcome refugees
"Stop Abbott, not the boats." About 1000 protesters marched through the streets of Melbourne on September 21, in opposition to the Coalition government's attacks on refugees, in the first refugee rights rally since the election of Prime Minister Tony Abbott. The rally heard from several speakers, including Bishop Philip Huggins, from the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, Ingrid ...
About Utah No bull no service for 106 miles
There is no stretch of blacktop in the entire American Interstate highway system with a longer gap between services than the 106 miles on I-70 in Utah between the towns of Salina and Green ...
...?and beware of dogs
Meanwhile it seems some folks on Beacon Hill are equally interested in mandating insurance coverage (see above) for a condition known as dog ownership. Where does it end?The State House News Service reports that a bill pending before the Legislature would prevent insurance companies in Massachusetts from denying coverage or charging higher premiums to homeowners who own certain breeds of dogs ...
Does Obamas toughness pay off You betcha.
Obama has crippled the Iranian economy by organizing some of the harshest sanctions imaginable, and he has stated repeatedly that he won't allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. The constant displays of American military might in the waters off Iran these past four years, coupled with clear statements that the United States would use force to thwart the regime's plans, have also ...
Michael Gerson Our casinogovernment complex deserves more scrutiny
WASHINGTON ? After decades of politically useful fiscal mismanagement, many states and localities have become little more than underfunded pension systems with a few public services attached. At last count, they owed more than $6 trillion to creditors and public employees, leaving dwindling discretionary dollars for things such as libraries, police protection and schools. A number of ...
This is not your forebears American isolationism
During President Obama?s, shall we say, sinuous progress toward a Syria policy, he has suggested, without using the word, that isolationism is among his afflictions. During his news ?conference-cum-soliloquy in Russia, he ...
Readers Write Marijuana Pope Francis Minneapolis schools sensitivity Minneapolis police living wills
The folks who wrote in and explained how legalizing marijuana would cut down on crime (Readers Write, Sept. 20) reminded me of a street person going into a bakery and explaining how dough rises to the baker. Some people just don?t have a clue and need to leave this area to the ...
St. Paul teachers union should reconsider Q Comp stand
Pre-school teaching assistant Kia Vang, left, watched as Poe Tha Puh wrote her name on a board before class started at Eastern Heights Elementary School, Tuesday, July 9, 2013 in St. Paul, ...
Hip-hop Bringing the noise No its poetry
If I were a betting man, I'd wager that neither Bill O'Reilly nor Don Lemon is a good dancer. Like many who go to soulful music concerts and experience the rhythms yet are unable to move to the beat, O'Reilly and Lemon have heard hip-hop (allegedly) and completely missed the literary prowess of the ...
Dont agonise organise against Abbotts agenda
Abbott's agenda will not be implemented without a fight. So Tony Abbott is the new prime minister. The Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor governments delivered this outcome with the narrow self-interest of its MPs and mafia-like faction heads and its desperation to prove itself as the best managers of the system for the billionaire class. Abbott's election will bring an escalation in attacks ...
LA uproar as US denies Venezuelan leader air passage
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks to media after the US initially denied his plane passage through US air space. Venezuela has rejected the United States' version of events in the dispute over Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's passage through US airspace on September 19. The diplomatic fallout reached media attention when Venezuelan foreign minister Elias Jaua told ...
Editorial Thank you Hiroshi Yamauchi for the Mariners
Hiroshi Yamauchi?s years as majority owner of the Seattle Mariners have been so quiet and stable that it?s easy to forget the caustic chaos of his predecessor. In the early 1990s, Jeff Smul?yan agitated to ship the Mariners off to Florida. Seattle, he claimed, wasn?t a good baseball town. Yamauchi, and a team of local investors, swept in to prove him wildly wrong. The ...
Letter from the US Wealth inequality grows fives years on from Lehman collapse
Two related anniversaries were marked this September. The first was the collapse five years ago of Lehman Brothers, which came to symbolise the financial crisis, the subsequent Great Recession, and the anemic recovery. The second was the upsurge of the Occupy movement two years ago in response, which popularised the idea that the richest 1% are the enemy of the rest of us. This slogan has ...
The sordid history of Clive Palmer
Sean Parnell HarperCollins, 2013 328 pages, $39.99 (hb) When the local council denied planning permission for the Queensland National Party's media director, Clive Palmer, to build a 66-story townhouse development on peaceful rural land in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast in 1984, Palmer's party and state government mate, Russ Hinze, helped the rich guy out by overturning the council ...
Syria US war drive halted for now
Threats of a new United States-led war in the Middle East abated, at least for now, on September 20 when Syria met a deadline set in a September 14 agreement between the US and Russia. As part of the deal, Syria submitted details of its chemical weapons to Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The US threatened military action against Syria after an August 21 sarin gas ...
GLW issue number 982
about GLW - the need for alternative media In these days of growing media concentration, Green Left Weekly is a proudly independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality. By printing the news and ideas the mainstream media won't, Green Left Weekly exposes the lies and distortions of the power brokers and helps us to ...
Aus. role in Chile coup revealed as protest targets pro-Pinochet pollie
NSW Liberal whip Peter Phelps praised former dictator Augusto Pinochet in parliament. Members of Sydney's Chilean community and supporters protested outside New South Wales Parliament on September 16 to demand Premier Barry O'Farrel sack Liberal MP Peter Phelps. The Liberal whip in the NSW Legislative Council caused outrage by praising former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on the ...
EDITORIAL How to cast a vote that will count
is a paper that proudly campaigns for left-wing issues in Australia and around the world, and aims to be a forum for news and debate to support these struggles. It supports the Socialist Alliance as a political party that brings together these issues. In the federal election, we're calling for a vote for the Socialist Alliance and the Greens. It may feel as though there ...
Amber Maxwell Queer fighter and socialist
Amber Maxwell at International Women's Day rally in Perth 2013. Photo: Alex Bainbridge Amber Maxwell was a great activist. She was one of the most dedicated young cadres of the Socialist Alternative Perth branch, and a co-convener of Equal Love WA. She committed suicide on August 24. She was 20 years old. I consider myself lucky that for a year and a half I worked with her in the queer ...
Barnetts austerity push challenged
the partial backdowns by Barnett in the past month showed the government is susceptible to pressure. He said: "This government can be beaten but we need to ratchet up the momentum if we are to substantially reverse Barnett's cuts. Only a concerted and united industrial campaign by unions combined with protest by the community would have the power to totally stop them in their ...
Editorial Take care in building anew near Grand Central
Photo credit: (Getty) Bloomberg administration plans for a skyscraper build-out in the area called "Midtown East" took a welcome step forward last week. The city's Independent Budget Office said the upzoning -- in a 73-block area surrounding Grand Central Terminal -- would not jeopardize public projects like Hudson Yards on the West Side or the World Trade Center in lower ...
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