The grim news hasn't made headlines in Ohio's largest newspaper. But journalists and retirees received word this week in letters entitled "Summary Annual Report" that their union pension fund took a major hit in the wake of the Wall Street financial collapse. Newroom employees who don't hold management jobs are [...]
From the desk of Pastor John
James Reeses, a young man in his early twenties died Saturday in his home. He died of the end result of severe acute depression. He had suffered a series of losses over the past couple of months and was far from home.
James was from Missouri, [...]
One hesitates to comment on the whole Tiger Woods fiasco; after all, even satire has a lower limit. One that Tiger has easily eclipsed, with the floozie index headed well into double digits, cash losses, a likely divorce, and now one of his doctors headed to [...]
In a Washington Post opinion piece published on December 6, longtime expansionary entitlement program apologists Peter Edelman and Barbara Ehrenreich ripped into the 1996 welfare reform law and its alleged effect on the poor during the struggling economy of the past two years.
In the course of their rant, Edelman [...]
Certainly, a key issue in next year's election will be how the average person who works for a living has been screwed over in so many ways — with job losses, wage stagnation, predatory credit-card companies, the foreclosure crisis and its impact on entire neighborhoods and home values etc. etc.
Brian [...]
