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...writing rock music about rock music, the intention to step back a bit seems clear. And throughout “Transference,” the elements that made its predecessor an instant classic—horns, conventional pop structure, songs with more that two chords—are thrown out in favor of a deliberately unpolished sound recalling the band’s lesser-known 90s work...
Klein needs to get out more. The failure to preserve the public option is an affront not to the left but to the base. Progressives are not demanding that everything be thrown out. Keep the regulations and break up insurance monopolies. Move the financial aspects of the bill to reconciliation, and institute Medicare for all with a 51-vote majority. That is a rational response...
...Julia Tuttle Causeway is one of Miami's most beautiful bridge spans, connecting the city to Miami Beach through palm-tree-filled islands fringed with red mangroves. But beneath the tranquil expanse sits one of South Florida's most contentious social problems: a large colony of convicted sex offenders, thrown into homelessness in recent years by draconian residency restrictions that leave them scant available or affordable housing. They live in tents and shacks built from cast-off supplies, clinging to pylons and embankments, with no running water, electricity or bathrooms. Not even during a recent cold spell, when nighttime temperatures...
...Canally, an economist with LPL Financial, a broker-dealer firm in Boston, is even more bullish: he predicts retail sales could rise as much as 3.5%. If automobiles, gas stations, restaurants and services (such as dry cleaning and hair salons) - which are not included in the NRF numbers - are thrown into the mix, sales could rise as much as 6%, he says. Total retail sales rose 5.4% on a seasonally adjusted basis in December from the same month a year earlier but were off 6.2% in full year 2009 from 2008, according to the Department of Commerce. Canally expects December...
...have New York's United Federation of Teachers (UFT), a storied crew, thwarting the state's attempt to file an application that might have won $700 million in Race to the Top education funds - and again the issue is charter schools, with a substantial dollop of teacher accountability thrown...