We’re about to learn a lot more about the Koch (pronounced “Coke”) brothers, despite their best efforts to hide behind the myriad front organizations they use to funnel cash to politicians who’ll do their bidding. “Citizen Koch,” a documentary about their power play in Wisconsin to eliminate bargaining rights of public employees and undermine laborContinue reading “The Koch Machine”
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Still Keeping Time
Since my last post, I’ve been packing up and preparing to move during another ferocious heat wave scorching the nation. That is the big story from Arizona to Massachusetts. Mother Nature’s frenzy. And that’s another story. We’re not moving far, but the process of parting with a home and memories accumulated over 22-plus years canContinue reading “Still Keeping Time”
We Need Robin Hood
A new report underlines the basic problem with the post-Great Recession American economy: the rich are getting richer while everyone else is falling further behind. The study by the Pew Research Center finds that the average net worth of the top 7 percent of the U.S. population increased 28 percent in the first two yearsContinue reading “We Need Robin Hood”
Playing the ‘Freedom’ Card
The effort by the lame-duck Republican legislature in Michigan to ram through a so-called “right-to-work’ law is a subversion of democracy, pure and simple. What they could not accomplish through the electoral process, these Republicans intend to do with a blatant power play. It should not stand. We should cheer the arrival Tuesday morning ofContinue reading “Playing the ‘Freedom’ Card”