“Anytime you have nine power plants fail in whole or in part in a 24-hour period,” says Gary Groesch, “that’s not bad luck. That’s not even bad maintenance. That’s a maintenance meltdown.”
A veteran New Orleans-based consumer activist...
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29 July 2000
If you’re trying to make sense out of recent Dispatch reporting on racial profiling by the Columbus Police Department (CPD), forget it. The Dispatch coverage suggests that since 28% of the traffic tickets issued in 1999 were...
29 July 2000
Two recent controversies at the Ohio State University, the flagship educational institution in the Buckeye State mostly known for its football prowess, underscore that institution’s shift from its original liberal arts land grant mission...
26 July 2000
The political conventions will soon be upon us. In Philadelphia, the
Republicans will fill the air with thunder about the moral pollution of
Clintonism. In Los Angeles, the Democrats will tell Americans they've never
had it better. So far...
19 July 2000
You can tell the Democrats are getting truly worried about Ralph Nader, the
Green Party presidential candidate. It's only July, and already the attacks
are getting shriller and sillier. But with Nader within sight of double
digits in the...
12 July 2000
Gloomily aware that Al Gore is not setting the campaign trail on fire,
Democrats are already invoking the specter of George W. Bush stocking the
U.S. Supreme Court with right-wing fanatics. Take People For the American
Way, a liberal...
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