National

Top court upholds detainee rights

Defenders of human rights praised the Supreme Court’s June 12 ruling that hundreds of detainees at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are entitled to a fair trial and other habeas corpus legal rights. Hundreds...

Midwest disaster

Emergency programs needed to rebuild, many say As the rising Mississippi continued to crash through levees June 17, sending walls of water into Midwest towns and threatening thousands of additional acres of farmland, many were already...

Shades of Green: June 14, 2008

Uncle Sam sez throw your TV away

Used to be that consumer products had something called 'planned obsolescence' built into them; they were designed to wear out and be thrown away (partly explaining our nation's overflowing landfills). Now, it seems, President Bush and...

Indiana Jones survives!

Movie REVIEW Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Directed by Steven Spielberg Paramount Pictures, 2008 124 min., Rated PG-13If we hadn’t seen it with our own eyes, my movie buddy and I would...