The Red Line is a walking, talking "charlie fox".  The long hoped-for, long-awaited, long-dreamed-for transportation line to link the west side and easte side of the cities is too expensive, according to this article in the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter.

Organizing nurses has long been a goal of some of the nation's largest unions.  Union labor fights over nurses -- typically between hospital administrations and the unions -- are legion.  Unions will often resort to planting organizers in non-unionized facilities just to instigate the organization movement.  It's happened before -- at hospitals right here in Maryland.

But rarely do we see unions battling each other for the right to organize and represent anyone.  But it's happening, as OpenMarket.org notes here.