Opinion

OPINION: What happened to me on the way to the inauguration

January 24, 2009 By Joe Sims

When walking down 34th street to pick up train tickets to the Washington Inauguration on Monday, MLK Day, I heard someone shout out the N word. Looking up it turned out to be a white person...

OPINION: Onward for a more responsible U.S.

January 22, 2009

The world can breathe a little easier now that the new president of this country, my country, urges our people to take responsibility for this new age with grave challenges – to meet the challenges of...

End corruption take corporate money out of politics

January 17, 2009

The brazen corruption of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is deplorable. But some would ask: what’s the big deal? Corruption is rampant in U.S. politics and is “as American as apple pie.” The larger issue, then, is...

Believing in government again

January 17, 2009

All through congressional hearings around the auto loan last month, not one public official or news reporter ever asked General Motors and Ford CEOs the most important question of all: “So how come you guys are...

Health care: a human right and a national resource

January 17, 2009

Public education has long been considered a basic resource essential to our country’s well-being and its continued economic growth, as well as to its pledge of equal opportunity for all. While the concept of a free...