Opinion

PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS On the road to economic recovery

July 4, 2009 By John Case

This week, July 4, 2009, on the road to economic recovery. The official unemployment rate now exceeds 9.5%--the worst in at least 25 years. The unofficial -- including discouraged, underemployed, and otherwise discarded workers -- rises...

Pride Month: Suggested reading and viewing

July 3, 2009

These days you can find many LGBT titles at your local public library, nearby bookstore, and of course online. These include poetry, graphic novels and comics, classic and contemporary fiction and a whole lot more. Share...

EDITORIAL Madoff is just tip of the iceberg

July 2, 2009

Finance capital went to confession, told the judge its sins, and he administered the penance — 150 years in the clinker for 79-year-old Bernard Madoff. The stain of sin on the decent soul of Wall Street’s...

EDITORIAL Big step backward

July 2, 2009

The city of New Haven threw out a fire department promotions exam because it yielded results that did not promote equality. The city’s decision was in keeping with the need to guarantee the civil rights of...

Apologizing for the rich aint what it used to be!

July 1, 2009

In the good old days one of the most enviable of jobs was that of a commentator or writer whose responsibility it was to explain to us in the mass audience why rich people are so...