BY JIM HIGHTOWER When it comes to a healthy diet, I am not a purist. Too late for that because I grew up eating such culinary concoctions as toasted sandwiches constructed of Spam, white bread and that oddly orange, oddly spongy cheeselike stuff known as Velveeta. As an adult, I even have been irresponsible enough […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH “They don’t know that you teach at Harvard when you’re at Fenway Park,” my friend Harry Edwards used to say about living in Boston in the late ’70s. Back then, Boston did more than its share to earn a bad reputation among black professionals. Today, Massachusetts has an African-American governor. The Celtics […]

BY FROMA HARROP This is what I told my friend Frank: Under the “cash for clunkers” program, you could get more money for your ’93 Mercury Grand Marquis than it was worth – up to $4,500 if you used it to buy a new vehicle with much better gas mileage. “What would they do with […]

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Dark, slimy creatures on occasion creep from the toxic political swamp pits to prey upon the unsuspecting, innocent turnip patch kids....

BY FROMA HARROP Some attacks on health care reform are so ludicrous that you don’t think they need answering. A recent example invokes an evil plot to save money by knocking off the elderly. Though nuts, the charges have gotten so much attention that someone has to actually say, “No, they’re not killing Grandma.” The […]