The apparent demise of the Twinkie brings back memories for me. A dozen police cars had been set on fire, which in turn set off their alarms, underscoring the angry shouts from 5,000 understandably angry…
Posts tagged as “nation”
Paul Stanford, 52, is the author and prime mover behind Oregon’s marijuana legalization initiative, Measure 80, which had gotten 46.5 percent of the vote as of Sunday morning when I called to offer condolences. “We…
The Romney “Believe in America” bus may have been on the road right until the end, but in the last weeks of the campaign it was clear from the laughable musical forces gathered under the…
Election's over, the good guy won, so what now for working people? Labor's wish list for our re-elected president and the new Congress is long, but certainly the most basic item is raising the pay…
November 11 is celebrated as Veteran's Day in the United States today. The date originally was known as Armistice Day to mark the end of hostilities on the Western Front during World War I. Why…
San Francisco is a global center of finance, so it's no coincidence that a major class action lawsuit filed against some of the world's biggest private equity groups is targeting firms headquartered in the Bay…
Perhaps the most notable endorsement of a candidate in this year's heated Presidential campaign has been relatively unremarked, and begins like this: Nowhere has Mitt Romney's pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or…
Former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern died this week at age 90. My first political memory is of the 1972 presidential election season. Democrat George McGovern challenged the Republican incumbent, President Richard Nixon. I was…