Opinion

Etch A Sketch and the Wal-Mart phenomenon

December 12, 2003

Opinion Perhaps the most successful, imaginative toy of all time has been Etch A Sketch. It thrilled our youngsters – and their parents and other adults – some 40 years ago and it still does today....

Oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment

December 12, 2003

Opinion Republicans don’t have solutions for the unemployment crisis (how often can you spend $180 billion on an illegal war to make the economy seem like its growing?). They have no handle on the Iraq quagmire,...

Whats a CEO worth?

December 12, 2003

Opinion I’ve had the opportunity, just lately, to offer some insight to a couple of very young people entering the work force of the real world for the first time. Although they are pursuing two very...

Mentally ill abandoned by the system

December 5, 2003

Opinion Fifty years ago half a million of us lived in public mental health hospitals, some voluntary but many against their will. How is it that today, by some estimates, only approximately 80,000 of us are...

Bush administration resurrects J. Edgar Hoover

December 5, 2003

Opinion As the right wing in the U.S. is in lock-step in its attempted march back in time, using twisted reasoning for public consumption, a report from The New York Times lets us know that the...