| Dec 27, 2010 | Economy / BusinessWe enter 2011 with a few more dollars in our paychecks. For about 98 percent of Americans, the extension of Bush tax cuts and the new payroll tax holiday will make it easier for us to afford a gallon, rather than a quart, of milk for our families each month, and to...
| | Environment / HealthWhen most people hear the word “hormones,” they have a flashback to high school science class or think of their adolescent children. But rarely do we think about staples of our everyday lives such as receipts, water bottles, and baby bottles. So what do...
| Oct 18, 2010 | Food / FarmingCorporations spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year marketing a dangerous product to America’s children. No one disputes the danger of the product. No one disputes that the marketing successfully convinces millions of kids to use the product. Yet these...
| Oct 11, 2010 | Economy / BusinessScroll through the right-wing blogosphere, or listen in at a tea party rally, and you’ll find angry people ranting about an out-of-control federal government that’s redistributing the nation’s wealth to the undeserving poor. Those rants do have one...
| | Rights / DemocracyThey say that the definition of a political gaffe is a politician caught telling the truth. Recently, former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson got in trouble for speaking his mind about Social Security. Simpson, the co-chair of President Barack Obama’s task force on...