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Gas Prices Top $4 in Nation's Capital, 5 States
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Drivers in Washington, D.C., on Saturday joined motorists in five states who are paying more than $4 per gallon for gasoline. The average price for gas in New York could top $4 by early next week. Hawaii, Alaska, California, Illinois and Connecticut already have pump prices above that mark, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge. Hawaii has the highest price in the U.S. at $4.47 per gallon. Jae C. Hong, AP Gas prices are reflected on an SUV at a gas station in Los Angeles late last month. Gas prices have topped $4 per gallon in Hawaii, Alaska, California, Illinois, ...
Obama Takes on his GOP Critics in Labor Day Speech
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyIn a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee that sounded more like a campaign stump speech than a holiday greeting, President Barack Obama delivered a message that was the political equivalent of "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." Kicking off what has traditionally been considered the official fall campaign season, Obama said: "Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time, they're not always happy with me. They talk about me like a dog. That's not in my prepared remarks, but it's true." From a stage at the Summerfest grounds in ...
Obama Wants $50 Billion for Roads, Railways, Airports
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyIn a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee, President Barack Obama will call for $50 billion in government spending to spark a six-year public works plan focused on improving roads, rail transportation and airport runways. White House officials said the money would be used to rebuild 15,000 miles of roads, construct and maintain 4,000 miles of railway and rehabilitate or reconstruct 150 miles of airport runways. The White House says the plan would create jobs in the short term, and that it will work with Congress to find ways to pay the costs without increasing the deficit. One possibility would ...
Labor Day and Unions: Making America Work
By James Grady - Politics DailyThis Labor Day, America's unions face a back to school autumn that will redefine their relevance in our river of politics and power. The historic relevance of unions is easy to see: The country got a big boost through the success of union workers like public school teachers who, along with dog-hated mailmen, spend their middle-class paychecks and thus enhance our middle-class economy. Now America's whole middle class is in trouble. Pick your set of statistics or ideological argument from the left or the right to back up what all of us know: If you're stuck in the middle, you're holding ...
Opinion: Unions Adrift in a Sea of Woes
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 6) -- On Labor Day, union leaders must ask themselves if the unions' future could possibly be darker. Of course, union leaders will make their usual speeches about fighting the good fight for working families, but I predict there will be fear and uncertainty in their voices. For they know that America's unions are adrift in a sea of woes, which has become so apparent to me, a professor of labor relations who has taught collective bargaining courses at Clark University for more than 20 years. Unemployment blues: Unions are feeling the full brunt of massive unemployment. Union jobs are ...
Opinion: It's Labor Day, Is Grandma at Work?
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 6) -- This Labor Day, more of our grandparents may be working a cashier's line, waiting tables or preparing lessons for the first day of school. Remember those happy TV commercials of seniors having the time of their lives, retiring in comfort and dignity after a lifetime of work? They're a dying dream for most older Americans. And that's something we can't let happen. With the average retirement age at 65 and increasing, Americans are already working longer than their counterparts in other developed countries. Over a third of workers now plan to retire later than age 65, compared ...
Key Oil Spill Evidence Raised to Gulf's Surface
By not in system - AOL NewsON THE GULF OF MEXICO (Sept. 5) -- Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship. Engineers took 29˝ hours to lift the 50-foot, 300-ton blowout preventer from a mile beneath the sea. The five-story high device breached the water's surface at 6:54 p.m. CDT, and looked largely intact with black stains on the yellow metal. FBI agents were among the 137 people aboard the Helix Q4000 vessel, taking photos and video of the device. They will escort it back to a NASA facility in ...
Obama Vows to Fight for Middle Class, Says Group's Taken 'Hard Shots'
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama said Saturday that economic recovery means more than a "healthy stock market," but also a return to bustling Main streets and a prosperous middle class -- a group that took some hard shots "long before this recession hit." Labor Day, the president said in his weekly Internet and radio address is a time to "throw some food on the grill and have a good time. But it is also a day to honor the American worker -- to reaffirm our commitment to the great American middle class that has, for generations, made our economy the envy of the world." With an unemployment rate stuck ...
Opinion: Show Labor Day Some Respect
By Will Durst - AOL NewsDan Dion Will Durst is author of "The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing: Common Sense Rantings From a Raging Moderate." (Sept. 3) -- Poor Labor Day. Gets no respect. It's the Rodney Dangerfield of celebrations. The runt of the holiday litter. Just hearing the name conjures up depressing images of the last plastic souvenir sports bottle of lemonade poured on the dying charcoal briquettes of summer. It's the end of the bright light and the beginning of the darkness. Vacation is over and the fun has expired. White shoes are put back in the closet and storm windows taken out. ...
Miami Airport Reopens After Bomb Scare; Scientist Released
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Sept. 3) -- Miami's airport is back in full operation today after four terminals were ordered evacuated when a luggage screener spotted something suspicious in a passenger's bag. A 70-year-old scientist once acquitted of illegally transporting bubonic plague was questioned in the investigation, then released without charges. Thomas Butler was charged with illegally transporting the deadly germ when he was a research professor at Texas Tech University in 2003. He was acquitted on all charges related to the plague, but convicted of fraud and served a two-year sentence, The Associated Press ...
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