• By: Steve Tisza
• June 20, 2007

The Illinois State Senate on Tuesday voted 54-0 for the bill, which the House earlier approved, 113-0. Download complete story and IBEW Local 21 Press Release in PDF format....

• By: Steve Tisza
• June 15, 2007

"Instead of arguing against the war, I will try to offer a fairly complete account of the relevant facts one might wish to consider when evaluating Americas policy in Iraq. Especi...

• By: Steve Tisza
• June 15, 2007

FIVE MINUTES -That's all we're asking. You need to take 5 minutes and make two phone calls, one to each of your Senators to tell them we need a vote on the Senate floor on the Emp...

• By: Steve Tisza
• June 13, 2007

With your help, this bill passed in the U.S. House on a vote of 241-185. Now we need your help to get it through the U.S. Senate. Tell your senators to support the Employee Free Ch...

• By: Steve Tisza
• June 13, 2007

"Susan N. Houseman, a good but previously obscure economist with the Upjohn Institute, has discovered a problem in the statistical data that produces phantom US GDP. Phantom GDP r...

• By: Steve Tisza
• June 8, 2007

"Can the Clinton machine deliver another NAFTA? That is the question in Washington on trade these days, as dynamic similar to the NAFTA debate begins to take shape. The Colombian g...

• By: Steve Tisza
• June 7, 2007

At least 3,501 U.S. service-members have been killed since the beginning of the war, according to an Associated Press count. They include at least 23 American deaths during the fir...

• By: Steve Tisza
• June 4, 2007

"Clinton said she's already trying to increase the number of so-called H1B visas aimed at highly educated workers. Silicon Valley companies use H1Bs to sponsor thousands of softwar...

• By: Steve Tisza
• May 25, 2007

Ten demonstrators were killed by police bullets during the "Little Steel Strike" of 1937. When several smaller steelmakers, including Republic Steel, refused to follow the lead of ...

• By: Steve Tisza
• May 15, 2007

"The nation's largest veterans organization is calling on Congress to reject proposed legislation that would grant fast track citizenship or amnesty to the 12 million -20 million i...