Efforts by states and cities to “create” jobs cost taxpayers $50 billion a year, author Greg LeRoy says. And given the nature of corporate America, there’s no guarantee those jobs will stick around… or even materialize in the first place.
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The world British singer-songwriter Richard Thompson creates is so vivid it feels as if you’re in the company of the characters he chronicles: bikers, schoolyard bullies, dreamers, lovers and losers.
For nearly four decades, Thompson has performed and recorded a wide variety of music, from traditional folk songs to rock-and roll.
His latest effort is Front Parlour Ballads, a mostly acoustic work recorded in a small studio in his garage.
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Ron Rack just posted a gorgeous Quicktime VR scene of West Virginia’s New River Gorge Bridge. Here’s another rather extraordinary VR Scene: Denis Gliksman’s Bretagne Rocky Coast. This VR scene includes a video layer (the ocean lapping the rocks).