Views
Fixing busted budgets
August 21, 2009In 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,...
Read moreTruth-telling time
August 21, 2009This 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...
Read moreTheres more to us than print
August 21, 2009We have gotten some great responses to the news that the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo is publishing daily online. But some of you still might not realize what our website has to offer, all the content...
Read moreHealth care reform and criticism of weapons
August 21, 2009I spoke last weekend at a public library in Blue Hill, a small coastal town in Maine. Most in the audience worked and voted for President Obama, but in the course of what was a very...
Read moreHealth care public option debate cut the baloney
August 21, 2009OPINION A lot has been written about the health care public option over the past few days. While some commentaries discuss the honest concerns many Americans have, others claim the would-be government-run plan is dead in...
Read more