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A corporate Monster v. “The Vermonster” America’s leaders are small, but Americans are notFree food can be yours for the pickingThe "anti-Starbucks" StarbucksWall Street’s new Halloween trickGoofing up health care reformObama must get going on jobs Bank profits, banker pay and other banker tricks“Local” goes locoA “smart choice” that isn’t
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 14,2011
Massey Energy’s manmade hellhole
In March of last year, Massey Energy Corp.’s official record book for recording unsafe conditions in its Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia said flatly: “none observed.” It
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 7,2011
The unanswered question is, Why?
America’s long, long war in Afghanistan has drained more than 1,500 precious lives and a trillion dollars from our country. But, finally, this enormous outlay paid off this year with the capture
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 30,2011
Perry is peddling Texas snake oil
Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and get your ticket to see ‘Rick the Wonder Worker!’ Texas Gov. Rick Perry is less than revered back home, where he is widely ridiculed as Gov. Good Ha
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 23,2011
Vermont leads the way
“We have a problem,” said House Speaker Shap Smith of Vermont. “We need to solve it.” This comment reflects a no-nonsense, hands-on, can-do attitude you rarely find in legislat
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 16,2011
Sneaking the plutocratic agenda into state law
With widespread, entrenched joblessness in Michigan, working families there are mighty hard hit these days. But the state’s new GOP governor, Rick Snyder, has reached out with a helping hand. We
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 9,2011
Nothing merry about Old King Coal
If some predator were stalking fourth-graders in your community, there’d be a mighty uproar to make the predator get away and stay away from your schools. But what if the stalker is the coal ind
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 2,2011
Privatization: The road to Hell
Billionaires are different from you and me, for obvious reasons, including the fact that they buy much pricier baubles than we do. A sleek car costing $100,000? Why, for them, that’s just an eas
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 26,2011
What’s inside Big Oil’s head?
The big five of Big Oil might want to mull over a bit of advice that baseball great Ted Williams once offered to rookies: “If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.” A
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 19,2011
Helping the neediest among us
To be fair to lawmakers, it’s not easy making the tough spending choices in these dire times of rising public need and inadequate tax revenues. Legislators in my state of Texas, for example, are
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 12,2011
GOP House chooses big oil over Granny
Now, let’s check today’s sports scores: 4, 10.7 and 21-and-a-half. Those tallies are from the oil league, and the winner, of course, is the league’s powerhouse, ExxonMobil. Four, as
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