KRUGMAN: Republicans hold America hostage … again
It’s hard to know whether the “what, us worry?” types believe what they’re saying, or whether they’re just staking out a bargaining position.
It’s hard to know whether the “what, us worry?” types believe what they’re saying, or whether they’re just staking out a bargaining position.
The language and methodology are different, but the goal is the same: to deny, invalidate and subjugate, to distract from real issues with false divisions.
Despite all the rhetoric about fairness and transparency, the 2011 round of redistricting remained shrouded in secrecy and conducted mostly behind closed doors.
Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings Inc. said it lost $22.4 million during the first quarter on higher fuel and maintenance costs.
Republic Airways Holdings’ 2009 purchases of regional airlines has created one of the industry’s most complicated labor integration challenges, particularly among pilots now represented by different unions.
When Mitch Daniels, the Indiana governor and Republican presidential aspirant, dared to urge his party to “mute” social issues, he was smacked.
Establishment Republicans are in danger of becoming as addicted to government aid as countless other individuals and interest groups.
Union leaders and Democrats are using the three-week-old boycott and a series of rallies to fuel the showdown that carries high stakes for both parties.
The Obama administration's plan to gradually dissolve ailing housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and to shrink the government's role in the mortgage market drew praise from House Republicans on Tuesday.
Republicans are trying to turn up the political heat on Indiana House Democrats who left the state to stall labor- and education-related bills they find objectionable.
On the gay rights front, Republicans in Iowa, Indiana, West Virginia and Wyoming (where Matthew Shepard was tortured to death) are among states pushing constitutional amendments to ban same-sex marriage.
Republic Airways suffered a loss in its fourth quarter as its Frontier Airlines business continued to lose money and its contract business with other airlines remained slower than in 2009. But the airline’s performance easily topped expectations of Wall Street.
To suggest voters were only intent on sending a message to the president, Nancy Pelosi, or Pat Bauer is missing a significant electoral mood shift that occurred.
When the locally based airline bought Frontier and Midwest, some predicted big carriers like Delta would stop doing business with Republic.
Republic Airways Holdings Inc. said on Monday that it will shift eight regional jets from flying for its Frontier Airlines unit to fly them under contract for Delta Air Lines Inc. instead.
Assorted issues advanced by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels are confronting political pushback—from his Republican legislative majority.
Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings Inc. and its Frontier Airlines unit filed a trademark-infringement case against the operator of a website offering gift cards as consumer incentives.
Pharmaceutical firms led by Eli Lilly are trying to eliminate a government panel aimed at controlling Medicare spending seven months after they supported the health-care overhaul that created it.
The Indianapolis-based company said it plans to raise $88.5 million by pricing 12 million shares of its common stock at $7.80 each in a public offering.
Indianapolis airline plans a public offering of 12 million shares of common stock that could raise $100 million or more.