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The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

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Republicans float conspiracy theories on the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge, South Carolina's congressional elections will use a map ruled unconstitutional, and the Senate schedules an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Mayorkas.

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Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

Convention Spin: Can Oregon Read Between the Lines?

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Thursday, September 4, 2008   

St. Paul, MN – Sen. John McCain accepts the Republican Party's presidential nomination tonight, and an economist's advice is to listen for some key points in his acceptance speech about how he plans to rebuild the nation's economy. In fact, says Heidi Schierholz of the Economic Policy Institute, that's also what to consider when listening to speeches by Barack Obama and any of the so-called "Third Party" candidates.

Shierholz points to recent U.S. Census Bureau reports showing that many Americans have seen their wages stagnate or fall over the past seven years -- so, she says, an acknowledgment of the struggles of working families would be a welcome point. And she believes there are proven methods to stimulate the economy. In her opinion, the rebate checks have worked, and making good on the nation's backlog of road and bridge repairs would help, as well.

"The country has billions of dollars worth of infrastructure programs that have gone unfinished due to lack of funds."

Shierholz considers the presidential transition a good time to tune up the economy. She believes that, no matter who wins, today's economic woes are not going to mirror the Great Depression.

"It's not going to be an out-and-out crisis. Weak jobs growth is going to last for the next couple of years, but it will eventually turn upward again."

As the major political conventions wrap up, some people are looking to candidates outside the mainstream for answers. Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura joins independent candidate Ralph Nader at a rally of Nader supporters in Minneapolis today. Nader's campaign coordinator, Jason Kafoury, admits there's not much hope of Nader actually winning the election -- but he says, that's not the only goal.

"We're planning to have an effort going into 2009 so, whoever wins, we can hold Congress' feet to the fire and push some of the reform in the legislation that we've been pushing in this campaign - and actually make that happen in 2009."

Nader, 74, made it onto the Oregon ballot a little more than a week ago, and he's being endorsed by the newly-formed "Peace Party" in the state.



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