Opinion
State legislatures are helping rich lenders rip-off the poor
Loan sharks and their lobbyists really know how to put the “ick” in eth-icks...
Sanders’ populist surge
Not only have crowds been streaming into arenas all around the country to hear Bernie Sanders’ fact-studded speeches, but ordinary Americans have also been...
Obama to top executives: I feel your pain
Guess who’s whining the loudest these days, wailing that they’re getting a raw deal from Barack Obama...
Deception, the shared value of both parties
There’s a downside to being the editor of a newspaper. It seems like every political organization in the state — including front groups for both major parties — feels compelled to send me its 10 favorite press releases every single day including Sundays and holidays...
Guess who’s serving the student loan industry?
Question: What do you get when you combine ignorance, imperiousness and incompetence? Answer: Betsy DeVos.
She’s Donald Trump’s multi-billionaire education secretary who hates public education...
A more genteel political corruption
Not only does corporate political money shout, scream, bellow and bay in our elections, but afterwards it quietly slips into the back rooms of power to talk softly about payback...
Help Elizabeth Warren fight the madness
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. That was the title of a kooky 1960s movie, but an even kookier sequel could be made today starring the mad, mad, mad, mad Republican leaders of the U.S. House...
What should we do with Edward Snowden?
I’m of two minds as to what we should do with Edward Snowden...
Letters | Blowing smoke
Blowing smoke (Re: “Cain’s manager inhales,” Danish Plan, Nov. 3.) When Paul Danish refers to Herman Cain’s future search for “all sorts of unexpected and ignored constituencies” that, like the Smoker’s Block he’s presumably won over, will Cain be going after the ...
A tiny bug spreads happiness
Great news, people: a hot spot of nine-spotted ladybugs has been spotted in Amagansett, N.Y...