by Jamie Coughlin | Nov 3, 2011 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged Congress to pass the infrastructure portion of his jobs bill, which goes to the House floor for debate this week. The president told construction workers at Georgetown University that they are doing their...
by Jamie Coughlin | Oct 31, 2011 | Business & Tech, Topics
Among the people that live in the tent village erected by Occupy DC protesters at McPherson Square in Washington, ‘Republican’ is almost a dirty word. “You say the word ‘Republican’ and people mentally shut down,” Jonathan Bremer said of his fellow protesters. Which...
by Jamie Coughlin | Oct 20, 2011 | Topics
WASHINGTON — Do left-wing “Occupiers” and right-wing tea partiers have anything in common? One collective of the politically disenfranchised and unemployed hangs out in public parks, marching and chanting “banks got bailed out, we got sold out.” The other tends...
by Jamie Coughlin | Oct 12, 2011 | Politics
Occupy D.C. protesters have been camping out in McPherson Square for the past 12 days. They’ve had few problems with police, saying the cops have largely left them alone. But their comrades in Boston haven’t been so fortunate. On Monday, protesters in Boston expanded...
by Jamie Coughlin | Oct 10, 2011 | Business & Tech
Disgruntled protesters descended on Washington to protest practically everything. And since so many of them said they hadn’t been involved in a protest before, we found them some professional advice. Concepcion Picciotto has been camped out in front of the White House...
