Before Norfolk Southern Poisoned Ohio, It Poisoned the Statehouse

| Mar 1, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured“The Wreck of the Old 97” is a classic bluegrass song recounting a spectacular train crash in 1903, caused by the company’s demand that the engineer speed down a dangerous track to deliver cargo on time. Fully 120 years later we have the “Wreck of the Norfolk...

A Health Care Cliff is Coming

| Feb 22, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI’m one of the 84 million Americans who get our health care through Medicaid. And I’m one of the 18 million who might lose it starting this spring unless our policymakers take action. I went to college, got a degree, and planned on being self-sufficient. But in my...

Rail Workers Warned Us: Greed Is Dangerous

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedThe toxic clouds that billowed up from a derailed freight train in Ohio this February are a chilling metaphor for the toxic greed that has infected so many of our big corporations. After having to evacuate, residents of East Palestine, Ohio are cautiously going back...

Health Care is Sick — and Profit is the Disease

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyYour doctor is out and unable to see you now. Not out for lunch or out on vacation — but out of medical practice. America’s perverse health care system, which sublimates care to the profiteering demands of Wall Street speculators who essentially own today’s system,...

Don’t Trust Wall Street with Nursing Homes

| Feb 15, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThere are industries that occasionally do something rotten. And there are industries like Big Oil, Big Pharma, and Big Tobacco that persistently do rotten things. Then there is the nursing home industry — where rottenness has become a core business principle.  The...

Biden Presented a Bold Agenda. Can He Back It Up?

| Feb 8, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Joe Biden took full advantage of his State of the Union address to celebrate his administration’s victories for hard-working U.S. families and set the tone for progress and possibility for the next two years.  While the country is still suffering from...