Opinion

New Orleans calling!

August 27, 2009 By People’s World Editorial Board

Four years ago a hurricane named Katrina destroyed a great American city named New Orleans.

I remember Ted Kennedy

August 26, 2009

I was a senior at Amherst College in the spring of 1964 when I boarded a chartered bus with my wife Joyce and our son Morgan, then less than six months old, for a trip to...

LETTERS: public option, getting to the roots, Labor Day, film showing

August 21, 2009

Public option We need the public option now more than ever. What the Tea Party elderly don’t know is that they are bankrupting government Medicare without some other form of health care reform. The public option...

Fixing busted budgets

August 21, 2009

In state capitals across the country, the fiscal year began July 1 with financial catastrophe. Summer schools were shut in California, state parks closed in Arizona, drug treatment and home health workers were slashed in Illinois,...

Truth-telling time

August 21, 2009

This is truth-telling time in the fight for health care. The voices of the uninsured and underinsured, of those who have insurance but live in fear of losing it, must be heard. The stakes could not...