CJOnline Blogs (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Mike Hall Why is there a holiday called Labor Day? Why isn't it called Rest Day? That's what we're all after, isn't it? A little rest from our labor? Continue reading "Hall: Relaxing words from the wise "
CJOnline Blogs (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Mike Hall A wandering mind looks at this week's city and county budget decisions: It isn't difficult to make comparisons between the Topeka City Council and the Shawnee County Commission. It probably isn't helpful or meaningful, but it isn't difficult, so we do it. Continue reading "Hall: TPAC loses out; Expo rakes it in"
Underdog (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Retirees Couldn’t Afford McCain’s Health Plan... by Mike Hall , Aug 15, 2008 We all know America’s health care system is broken and that reforming it to provide quality, affordable care for all is a top priority for voters this fall and for the new president and Congress in January. A new study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI ) shows that a key component of John McCain’s health care...
CJOnline Blogs (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Mike Hall I suspect that not many people in the 5 through 11 age range read this column. So, I'm not pandering to any readers here when I say the kids have my sympathy as summer vacation ends. Continue reading "Hall: Beating the back to school blues"
CJOnline Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Mike Hall Just a few more thoughts about elections, then let's take a breather before the next round starts. In 1981, after 10 years as mayor of Topeka, Bill McCormick decided to run for Congress. He pledged not to accept political contributions. He argued that he had won elections before in which he spent much less than an opponent. He said too much money was being raised to create artificial images...
"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Posted by Mike Hall to AFL-CIO NOW Barack Obama told the AFL-CIO Executive Council he is counting on the union movement’s largest-ever voter mobilization to play a key role in his drive to take back the White House for working families on Election Day. Speaking via video conference at the council’s two-day meeting in Chicago this morning, Obama pledged his support for the Employee Free Choice Act,...
CJOnline Blogs (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Mike Hall What we need is more flip-flopping, not less. My dictionary says a flip-flop is "an abrupt change, as to an opposite opinion." I'm about to show you in this limited space how the co-opting of the term flip-flop to mean a bad thing may be causing abuse of the Kansas Open Meetings Act. Continue reading "Hall: Flip-flop should be favorable"
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Source: [b]AFL-CIO News Blog[/b] by Mike Hall, Jul 29, 2008 For years, Imperial Sugar Co.'s Port Wentworth, Ga., sugar refinery was an explosion waiting to happenand on Feb. 7, a blast at the plant killed 13 people. The explosion apparently was triggered when a metal conveyer bucket hit the sid...
CJOnline Blogs (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Mike Hall The people attending those Heartland Visioning meetings insist there are a lot of creative people in this community. All we have to do is listen to them. OK, visionaries, bring out your creative people. Put up or shut up. Continue reading "Hall: What's in a name? Everything"
MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Hi Friends! Been offline for about a week... I'm back now. some of you may have seen Mike Hall's Post about a new Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Fundamentals Book. Looks to be a good read! you should check it out if you're new to CE or new to the embedded development process! TTYL, JC...( read more )
"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Posted by Mike Hall to AFL-CIO NOW Bandages may work OK for scraped knees, but as Working America members and union activists in Minnesota told Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) today, the nation’s broken health care system needs serious and comprehensive reform—not a “Bandage Solution.” The activists marched to Coleman’s office in St. Paul and at a press conference outside the office delivered a long roll...
"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Posted by Mike Hall to AFL-CIO NOW Nearly 100 trade unionists and other worker justice activists marched outside Zimbabwe’s embassy in Washington, D.C., yesterday demanding fair and free elections and an end to government-sponsored violence against opponents. The demonstration was sponsored by the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, the Transafrica Forum, the AFL-CIO and several other groups. Members...
"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Posted by Mike Hall to AFL-CIO NOW Not only is the U.S. health care system on the “wrong track” and needs to “change direction,” but its performance is declining, it costs too much and ranks below most other industrialized nations in terms of access and quality. A new report from the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit research group, warns: "Rising costs put families, businesses, and public budgets under...
CJOnline Blogs (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Mike Hall One of the funniest, and saddest, moments of last week's Topeka City Council work session was when council members were expressing doubt that the idea of a half percent sales tax increase would be easy to sell to the voters. Continue reading "Hall: Visioning reveals true colors"
Underdog (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
McCain’s Efforts to Gamble Away Social Security by Mike Hall , Jul 17, 2008 Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has voted to protect and strengthen Social Security and against privatizing the nation’s most successful retirement security program. On the other hand, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says Social Security is an “absolute disgrace” (see video) and that President Bush’s failed privatization scheme is the...
