| Oct 22, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|HP SubfeaturedWhen I attended President Trump’s October 13 rally in Des Moines, I was disgusted by the lies I heard. Trump likes to brag about how many jobs he’s created. He likes to claim that he’s fulfilled his promise to be the “the greatest jobs president that God had ever...
| Oct 21, 2020 | RoundupAs the election draws nearer, COVID-19 cases are spiking throughout the heartland, and new figures suggest the death total is now over 200,000. Seniors have been especially hard-hit — which would be one reason, Mitchell Zimmerman writes this week, the usually...
| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn this year’s vice presidential debate, Senator Kamala Harris reiterated Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s rejection of a fracking ban, despite her earlier call for one when she was a presidential candidate. “I will repeat, and the American people know, that Joe Biden...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWant to know where the 2020 presidential election is heading? Don’t obsess about the polls. Pay attention to tax lawyers and accountants. These experts in reducing rich people’s tax bills understand what many Americans still haven’t quite fathomed: The nation’s...
| | Environment / Health|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI’m of the generation that was born during World War II. We’re now in our mid-to-late 70s. We were a little pre-boomer, but many of us joined or led the rights revolutions of the 1960s, struggled against the Vietnam War, and hoped to make the world more just,...