• By: Steve Tisza
• May 14, 2007

"Senators Chuck Grassley and Richard Durbin today asked the top nine foreign based companies in 2006 that used nearly 20,000 of the available H-1B visas to disclose further details...

• By: Steve Tisza
• May 13, 2007

"In the interest of full transparency, let's remember: It's not totally clear who has seen the actual legislative language of this deal as of now. What we do know is that while man...

• By: Steve Tisza
• May 12, 2007

When is local journalism not really local? When it's about Pasadena and written by someone in India. James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the Pasadena Now website, hired two r...

• By: Steve Tisza
• May 9, 2007

"I have previously given strong endorsement to the Durbin/Grassley H-1B/L-1 reform bill introduced earlier this year in the Senate. Most of the bill is of little value, but there ...

• By: Steve Tisza
• May 4, 2007

Today is the 121st Anniversary of the Haymarket Affair. The Chicago Historical Society has created this digital collection to provide on-line access to its primary source materials...

• By: Steve Tisza
• May 4, 2007

"The statue honoring the policemen killed in the Haymarket riots of 1886, presently in protective custody after repeated attempts to blow it up, will once again be put on public d...

• By: Steve Tisza
• May 3, 2007

"Rush Limbaugh is the master of the preemptive strike. Sometimes when Limbaugh says something controversial, he'll immediately launch into a bit about how the "drive-by media" will...

• By: Steve Tisza
• May 3, 2007

"The corporations whine that H-1Bs are needed because of a shortage of Americans with skills, but major studies at UC-Davis and Duke universities conclusively prove we have thousan...

• By: Steve Tisza
• May 3, 2007

"There are so many types of visas that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service is running out of letters of the alphabet to name them. A proposed immigration bill the Bush adm...

• By: Steve Tisza
• May 2, 2007

"Ever since the offshore shift of engineering work blew up into a national issue four years ago, a question has nagged at economists and policy makers: Is outsourcing hurting Ameri...