| Nov 20, 2013 | Economy / BusinessHere come Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas. It’s a month-long season of friends and family, spiritual reflection, and time to decompress from our usual helter-skelter lives, right? Good lord, shout the corporate bosses, are you nuts? Do you think America is...
| | Economy / BusinessPondering America’s economic system is a bit like going to the mechanic with your old heap and being told there’s nothing more he can do. It’s time for a new economy, but we’re going to keep our clunker economy that persists only because so...
| | Cartoon|Food / Farming
| Nov 19, 2013 | Economy / BusinessSomething astounding is happening in Switzerland. For the first time ever, citizens in a modern nation are voting on whether to create what essentially amounts to a “maximum wage.” On November 24, the Swiss will vote on a ballot initiative that bans any...
| | Food / FarmingIf you doubt that big money and lies can pervert elections, look at Initiative 522 in Washington State. A grassroots coalition of consumers, organic producers, environmentalists, and others who want honesty in food labeling put it on the ballot. They lost. The measure...
