susan the bruce

Presidential candidate and Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, recently told a group of voters in Iowa that Social Security is "a Ponzi sch...

US Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio: Senator Rubio is presenting a fanciful revision of history. As ThinkProgress points out: ...

Once again, Crow Dickinson has put Conway on the map. The first time he accomplished this by trying to carry a loaded gun in his lugga...

The current NH legislature has made a concerted effort to try to overturn nearly every law enacted during the 4 years that the Democrats con...

Over the last decade, the income and economic security of low income children and families has decreased significantly. Child poverty in the...

As the federal budget cuts continue, the possibility of cuts to LIHEAP, (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program) are being suggested as ...

The NH Dept. of Transportation (DOT) announced this week that due to cuts budget cuts, they are going to cut back on plowing some roads ...

Barbara Ehrenreich's award winning book "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" was published ten years ago. It wa...

Last week, I wrote about how the latest NH state budget has resulted in at least 450 jobs lost, so far. This week, there's some mag...

When last we heard about the right to work law in NH, the governor had vetoed it, and the Speaker of the NH House was unable to get enough o...

A few weeks ago the Sun published a letter from a reader claiming he reads the “letters” I write, but finds they’re “getting boring.” The re...

Check out this video from the blog defendwisconsin . A Wisconsin blogger made this video when she took her son to the DMV to get a voter ID...

Once again, a state legislator makes me proud to be from NH. Rep. Lynne Blankenbeker is a nurse in the Navy Reserves, and currently at Fort ...

Legal Services Corporation (LSC) may see their budget slashed to 1999 levels. LSC supports 126 legal aid organizations around the country. ...

Thousands of people were waiting in front of the Jesse Owens stadium in Dallas to fill out an application for Section 8 housing vouchers, an...

Under President George W. Bush, the debt ceiling was raised 7 times. There was no fanfare. No Congressional standoff. It was not a big, inte...

State budget cuts almost always mean that those budgets are balanced on the backs of the poor and the elderly; those most in need of service...

Last week, NH had yet another primary, for another special election caused by the resignation of yet another errant representative. From WMU...

From the NY Times: WILMINGTON, N.C. — When Engine 5 pulled up to a burning house on Woodlawn Avenue early on March 19, the firefighters were...

A look at the unspoken reality behind the so-called "jobless recovery." From MoJo: Webster's defines speedup as "an emplo...