| Oct 2, 2013 | Cartoon|Rights / Democracy
| Sep 18, 2013 | Economy / BusinessThe federal budget expresses our nation’s values and priorities in numbers. It’s a blueprint for how our elected officials plan to make money and how they plan to spend it. What happens in Washington, D.C. has a profound local impact. About 80 percent of...
| | Peace / SecurityMy wife Sanaa is from Syria. Her family, most of whom are who are Alawite farmers, still lives there. As a former U.S. senator of Middle Eastern descent, I oppose any kind of U.S. attack on Syria and hope that Congress does too in its upcoming vote on the matter. As...
| | Economy / BusinessMy cousin Mona called me the other day about her husband Harry, who had came home from work and said: “We’re spending too much money, Mona. It’s got to stop. We’re going broke.” “Really? I thought we were doing OK, sort of.”...
| | Food / FarmingI spent a few months on food stamps this year. As a single woman in San Diego, I qualified for $70 a month — less than a dollar per meal. But I’m lucky and I’m unusual because many of my friends are farmers and gardeners and I know how to forage wild...
