Sharon Martin

BY SHARON MARTIN Listening to the chairman of the Republican Party a couple of Sundays ago, two things were clear: 1. Power is more important to...

BY SHARON MARTIN Ever hear something that just stops you dead? On NPR, Mara Liasson was discussing political polls. She said that Republicans don’t poll well...

BY SHARON MARTIN Waiting outside the door of a classroom to pick up students for Reading Lab, I saw a second grader pointing at me. “I...

BY SHARON MARTIN Whether George W. Bush won the 2000 election or not is still debatable, but he took the oath of office. I knew...

BY SHARON MARTIN Agnotology means the deliberate spread of ignorance. Robert Proctor coined the word when he discovered that tobacco company executives were deliberately casting...

BY SHARON MARTIN Someone I love says that people don’t have time to find out how their legislators voted. “Who cares about a candidate’s voting record?”...

BY SHARON MARTIN Racism runs roughshod over this year’s primaries. Unrest, hate, and the absence of truth mark most candidacies. There’s a real chance of...

BY SHARON MARTIN You want to sell our public lands and pristine places,   turn public service into for-profit business   until everything is owned by a handful of old men with nothing...

BY SHARON MARTIN If your idea of good governance is to take care of the top 10% of the citizens in your state, your first...