HOUSTON -- My favorite thing at the Texas Republican Convention was the
advertising in the back of the hall that constituted an almost perfect
record of the major scandals, conflicts of interest and bad public policy
that have occurred...
15 June 2000
Here's an idea. Since the House of Representatives thinks
it's so important to give a $30-billion-a-year tax break to the richest 2
percent of Americans, why doesn't it do the same thing for the poorest 2
percent, as well? For the sake of...
15 June 2000
A public-interest group is urging sportswriters to resist a
free-enterprise wave of the future. "Corporations are seizing the names of
our beloved parks and stadiums, and replacing these with their own,"
Commercial Alert complains in a...
13 June 2000
So you're going along thinking it's the year 2000,
Information Age, digital revolution, high-tech economy, all that jazz, and
then you look at the headlines.
American General, one of the biggest insurance companies in the country,...
11 June 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- First there was good news. Let's hear it for the U.S.
Senate, a profile in courage. A 57-42 vote on requiring "527s" -- the
tax-exempt organizations that secretly raise and spend millions to influence
elections -- to...
08 June 2000
There's a slick new term surfing its way into the mass media. "E-government."
Al Gore has given it a big shove forward with a major campaign speech. "The power of government," he proclaimed, "should not be locked away in Washington,...
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