News
Letters
May 18, 2002Not a bad word With reference to Michael Feldman's story on Marymount College (4/27), how did 'cowboy' become a pejorative? Most of the cowboys I have known have been honest but badly exploited working men. Let's...
Read more
Editorials
May 18, 2002GOP to poor: 'Let them eat missiles' Without a day of hearings, the House leadership attached to the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) reauthorization bill an amendment that could open the way for wrecking the...
Read more
Letters
May 10, 2002I quit! I smoked cigarettes for 60 years, but when I read in the PWW that more people died from smoking than from all the wars we’ve been in, I quit cold turkey. Betty DumovichGreat Falls...
Read more
Editorials
May 10, 2002Free the 9/11 detainees Nine months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, hundreds of detainees, mostly Arab or Muslim men, are still imprisoned by federal authorities despite no evidence of their connection with terrorism. The issue...
Read more
Special prosecutor to investigate police
May 10, 2002CHICAGO – After decades of protests, Judge Paul Biebel, chief of the Cook County Criminal Courts, has ordered a full investigation of the use of torture by key members of the Chicago Police Department. Biebel announced...
Read more