The Highroad
Cleaning up the stench of Washington lobbyists
Even a hog must sometimes gag at the stench of its own sty. Maybe that’s why some corporate lobbyists have launched a campaign to spiff up K-Street, Washington’s corridor of shameless high-dollar influence peddlers...
North Carolina’s Kafkaesque war on the unemployed
Something profoundly awful has seeped into the top strata of American society: Our nation’s corporate and political elites have developed an immunity to shame...
Will you enlist in ‘Trump’s War’?
President Trump might have dodged military service in his youth, but he certainly is militaristic — he is bellicose, likes to issue commands, and...
A new player for Ohio State football games
In the ever-escalating competition to be the Number One big-time college football program in the nation, Ohio State University bulked up last fall with a monster recruit named Maxx...
Wall Street plowboys
I love the names: Bobcat Farm, Golden Eagle Ranch, Long Prairie, Pintail Vineyard, Roadrunner Ranch, and Ten Mile Farm. They conjure up Americana, the old...
Hiding worker injuries from OSHA
It's painful enough to be injured on the job, but it adds insult to injury when your employer strives to keep your pain a secret from safety authorities...
Sandy Weill’s apt epitaph: Pigs fly
Why isn’t Sandy Weill treated as a crook? He not only violated the law, but arrogantly flaunted it. Yet the system treats the criminal acts of Wall Street Royals like him as the by-product of “financial innovation.” Far from criminal, you see, Weill simply suffers ...
Citigroup becomes its own self-serving lawmaker
Perhaps you recall from high school civics class that neat flow chart showing the beautiful democratic process for passing a law through Congress...
Reclaim Chicago challenges ‘Mayor 1-Percent’
The people of Chicago are presently grappling with a big question that nearly every urban place faces: Can anyone really govern such a sprawling, brawling city...
Daddy’s philosophy
This special day got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving — giving of ourselves...
Massey Energy’s man-made hellhole
West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch coal mine was a disaster even before it exploded into an underground hell last year, killing 29 miners. A new investigative report by federal safety inspectors found that this mine — owned by the enormously profitable Massey ...
