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Fred Foldvary's Editorial:
Share the earth? A UN declaration says Yes
Indigenous Rights? Anglo Conquerors Say No
http://www.progress.org/2007/fold526.htm
National press cites problems, Alaskan paper notes a solution:
How to fix heavy traffic and huge parking lots
http://www.progress.org/2007/sprlpark.htm
It’s the economy, stupid – not; actually, it’s distribution of social surplus:
Greenspan admits not knowing how to fix the economy
http://www.progress.org/2007/Grenspan.htm
Big owners of farmland get subsidies from taxpayers, rent from little tenants:
Farmers got it rough, farm owners got it easy
http://www.progress.org/2007/agsb0710.htm
A coming death shortage? A coming trillion dollars off health costs?
Be younger longer
http://www.progress.org/2007/lngevity.htm
Perhaps because his agency has a hand in causing it?
Inflation? What inflation? says the nation’s top economic official.
http://www.progress.org/2007/infl0710.htm
Fred Foldvary's Editorial:
The Burma Slaves
http://www.progress.org/2007/fold527.htm
If war is the business of the state, investing in destruction must follow:
How Sputnik contributed to the marriage of science and weaponry
http://www.progress.org/2007/solm175.htm
To evolve beyond an economy based on oil:
Peak Everything -- Waking Up to the Century of Declines
http://www.progress.org/2007/heinberg.htm
The latest best estimate of over-policing is even on the conservative side:
The War on Pot: America's Billion Annual Boondoggle
http://www.progress.org/2007/marijuan.htm
Property tax supplies much of the revenue of local governments:
Wal-Mart systematically challenges property tax assessments
http://www.progress.org/2007/wlmrtapl.htm
Even working families can’t make it; time for a dividend?
Money’s scarce. Blame banks? Or share surplus?
http://www.progress.org/2007/hardship.htm
Fred Foldvary's Editorial:
Nobel laureate needs to be known by a new tax--
Whose Tax is being Gored?
http://www.progress.org/2007/fold528.htm
We pollute and waste it when we should share it:
Water crisis opens more eyes to water as belonging to everyone
http://www.progress.org/2007/waterisk.htm
A 50% fall in house prices helps buyers later but hurts others now?
Housing+credit crisis crunches jobs, incomes, and looks to worsen.
http://www.progress.org/2007/husrcs02.htm
Europe’s life expectancy cut; US air polluter to clean up its act?
Smog shortens lives; will big fines lessen smog?
http://www.progress.org/2007/airpolut.htm
Honeybees: the new canary in the coal mine?
What Was Behind the Honey Bee Wipeout?
http://www.progress.org/2007/beedeath.htm
The primary system is way off course; parties need to take over the process.
A national editor asks: Must taxpayers pay for primaries?
http://www.progress.org/2007/elctrfrm.htm
And as always -- dozens of new letters to the editor appear at
http://www.progress.org/letters.htm
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