BY FROMA HARROP In an essay titled, “Why I’m Leaving the Senate,” Evan Bayh brilliantly explains what’s wrong with the Senate and how to fix it. If only the headline had read, “Why I’m Not Leaving the Senate” – or better, “Things I Will Do If Indiana Voters Give Me Another 6 Years.” Bayh is […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER By gollies, the top executives of health insurance corporations are not giving up without a fight! To paraphrase every high school football coach who ever lived, “When the going gets ugly, the ugly get going.” During the past several months, the Barons of Wall Street had established themselves as the vilest and […]

BY FROMA HARROP LAKE WORTH, FL – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent dig that Florida is “for the old people” cut locals here to the quick. “Florida’s not cool to a 20-year-old, and it has to be,” retail executive Larry Levine told the Economic Council of Palm Beach County. His own children have gone west. […]

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD After a year of a legislative policy of “just say no,” at least one Republican has come forth with an actual...

BY SHARON MARTIN My son-in-law was a decorated Tulsa policeman. After five years on the job, he, along with 126 other officers, was laid off....