In the wake of the Washington State Senate’s speedy vote in favor of an improved version of the DREAM Act, several of the more uncompromising members of the Republican Caucus have decided to declare their independence from Rodney Tom’s so-called “Majority Coalition Caucus” by having their names scrubbed from the MCC’s website, the Seattle Times’ […]
Daily Archives: February 12th, 2014
Posted inBreaking News, Media & Culture
Comcast plans to acquire Time Warner Cable for $44 billion; FCC and DOJ should veto deal
Media and telecommunications conglomerate Comcast, the nation’s largest provider of cable television and the owner of NBC Universal, has just announced it has agreed to acquire the nation’s second largest cable television provider, Time Warner Cable, in a $44 billion plus all-stock megadeal. Bloomberg reports: Comcast is paying about $159 a share in the transaction, […]
Posted inBreaking News, Economic Security, Policy Topics
U.S. Senate breaks Ted Cruz’s filibuster, joins House in voting to pay nation’s bills into 2015
Well, that was fast. Less than a day after the United States House of Representatives voted to give the Department of the Treasury the authority to continue paying the nation’s bills into March 2015, the Senate followed suit, in the process breaking a filibuster staged by Tea Party darling Ted Cruz of Texas, who is upset […]