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Labor Day: Thanks to One Group That Made a Difference

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pullman Palace Car Company, Better Pay, Labor Day, Woman Suffrage, Brotherhood of Sleepign Car Porters, Politics News
Kate Kelly

The original intent of Labor Day was to honor workers, and particularly members of trade and labor organizations. In that spirit, I would like to take a moment to honor some of these people who helped make America great.

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On the Road: Why Do We Want To Travel?

Robert Fuller | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: African-American, Chesterton, Robert Fuller, Self, Beijing, Berlin, Rockies, Racist, Ussr, Holocaust, Urals, Travel, Self-Renewal, Cold War, Keats, Trans-Siberian Railroad, On the Road, Munich, Oktoberfest, Thomas Fuller, Moscow, Russia, Thomas Wolfe, Train, Of Time and the River, Brotherhood of Sleepign Car Porters, Kerouac, Karakorams, Dachau, Theroux, Healthy Living News
Robert Fuller

Fear is part of what makes travel so enlivening and revelatory. You're perpetually off-balance and on guard. After a while one yearns for the mindlessness of familiar routines.

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P3s: Let's Not Party Like It's 1929

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: p3s, New Deal, Railroads, Larry Summers, Granger Movement, Railroad Strikes of 1877, Bailout, Barack Obama, Fdr, Aig, Tennessee Valley Authority Dam Breaks, Money Trust, Robber Barons, US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Public-Private Partnerships, Abraham Lincoln, Homer Plessy, TARP Trust, Brotherhood of Sleepign Car Porters, A. Philip Randolph, Business News
Michael Likosky

We must take the public interest more seriously when we talk about P3s.

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