National

For Michigan, its the economy, stupid!

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Auto parts maker Lear Corp. shipped its plant from here to Mexico, laying off hundreds of workers. Robin Golden, president of UAW Local 2344 and one of the laid-off workers, spoke about...

Voices from the neighborhood: ‘Bring all the troops home’

Miners plan work stoppage over anti-Obama film

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – (AP)Union leaders say a National Rifle Association film crew tried to coerce West Virginia miners into bad-mouthing presidential hopeful Barack Obama on camera, and that the union plans a brief work stoppage in...

OPINION: Ramming through the bailout

Bush, Paulson make Dillinger look like a Boy Scout As the Bush administration attempts to ram a bailout package of nearly one trillion dollars through Congress, it begins to feel like Colonel Sanders asking the public...

OPINION: The Rosenberg case revisited: heroes and betrayers

The ugly days of the 1950s witchhunts returned to the headlines this month, hitting me in a very personal way.