| Oct 28, 2020 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMy mother is a Black woman. But when I had to place her in nursing home care in 2016, I intentionally chose a home in a largely white community. Why? Because she was more likely to survive there. Let me explain. After President Trump’s recent COVID-19 hospitalization,...
| 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 | 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,...
| Oct 14, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedFor family farmers like Hans Breitenmoser, the odds of catching COVID-19 on the job are slim. Social distancing is not exactly a challenge when you’re farming more than 1,300 acres in rural Wisconsin. But Breitenmoser is one of many Wisconsin farmers who are showing...
