Hugh Baran
Hugh Baran
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Baran: The choice to act is ours
Last week’s announcement of an early contract settlement with Locals 34 and 35 came as a welcome surprise to many in the city who have become accustomed to labor strife at Yale.
Baran: Responsible promise
What will economic recovery in New Haven look like? This question is on the minds of many, even as we continue to fully account for how we got into this mess in the first place.
Baran: Change requires mobilization
The past few weeks have shown us that true change is even more of a struggle than we might previously have believed. As if we needed any more bad news, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) yesterday announced he would vote against cloture on the critically important Employee Free Choice Act.
Baran: Budgets good and bad
The federal budget unveiled by President Obama last week is nothing short of breathtaking. With it, the President is truly delivering us “change we can believe in.”
Baran: Two leaders to emulate
Last week saw Congressional Democrats make several sad and unfortunate compromises in the effort to pass President Obama’s urgent economic stimulus package.
Baran: Candidate(s) short on ideas
At this moment of ever-worsening economic crisis, the pre-primary for Ward 1 alderman announced last week by Ward 1 Democratic co-chairwomen Adzua Agyapon ’11 and Rhiannon Bronstein ’11 offers Yale students an exciting opportunity to engage in a debate over the future of New Haven.
Baran: A chance to restore the rule of law
Despite our President-elect’s promises during his campaign that the United States would reject torture on his watch, there are troubling signs that the Obama era will see no prosecutions and zero accountability for officials in the Bush administration.
Baran: Debunking investment myths
The campus is abuzz in the wake of the highly successful launches of both the Responsible Endowment Project and of the Undergraduate Organizing Committee’s Nov. 18 sit-in outside the Investments Office with HEI hotel worker Jose Landino.
Baran: More to do to help workers
Baran: More to do to help workers
Baran: A progressive failure out West
Progressives have suddenly woken up to the fact that civil rights are in serious jeopardy in California. Current polls show that Proposition 8, which would amend the state constitution to eliminate equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, may be headed to victory.