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Obama needs to bail out workers
Obama helped bail out Wall Street and is working on incompetent Detroit. Now he needs to urge President Bush to not abandon the American worker by instituting a new "industry-by-industry" toxics regulation. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
This year, why not try something different?
Take whatever you spent on holiday gifts last year, slash 5/6ths of it, and see what you can do. You’ll be surprised. (Globe Columnist, 11/29/08)
Sick-leave issue connects with every worker
As Milwaukee becomes the third city to mandate paid sick days, perhaps federal legislation will be next. (Boston Globe, 11/25/08)
'It's OK to be an American now'
The election of Barack Obama has brought on a new era of US patriotism. (Globe Columnist, 11/22/08)
Keeping Africa on Washington's radar
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has expanded the number of people in sub-Saharan Africa who have access to antiretroviral treatment from 50,000 to 1.4 million people. But will such support under President-elect Barack Obama continue? (Boston Globe, 11/18/08)
Another case of politics as usual?
WASHINGTON OBSERVERS of African-American participation in politics are gushing over the long-term implications of the election of Barack Obama as president. "What we saw was really the emergence of the first multiracial, intergenerational, multiethnic political coalition of the 21st century," Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, told the Trotter Group of African-American newspaper columnists ... (Globe Columnist, 11/15/08)
A new era of pragmatic hope
If anyone has any insight into how Barack Obama will lead as president, it's Valerie Jarrett, a longtime confidant of the Illinois senator and co-chair of his transition team. "I'm not sure people understand how pragmatic he is," she says. (Globe Columnist, 11/10/08)
Rewarding centuries of discipline
CHICAGO FOUR CENTURIES of discipline culminated in Barack Obama's stride to the Grant Park podium Tuesday as president-elect. He smiled, but the slow swan's grace of his waving made it clear he would not mimic the explosive jubilation from the sea of humanity before him. It was more than the weariness of the campaign and the laden years ahead. What ... (Globe Columnist, 11/8/08)
He offered economic change
CHICAGO FOR ALL the multiracial throng cheering wildly at the moment Barack Obama won the White House, it was a stream of mostly white voters at a north side polling spot here who were symbolic of why we now have our first African American president-elect. (Globe Columnist, 11/5/08)
Gender equity a premium for healthcare
The winner of today's election should pledge to end gender discrimination in health insurance for women. (Boston Globe, 11/4/08)
AUDIO SLIDESHOW
A New England cheesehead fantasy ends
Derrick laments the playoff loss of his beloved Packers and warns Pats fans not to take the Giants too lightly.
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