MESQUITE, Texas — A panel of community leaders here heard testimony on the health care situation in North Texas on Aug. 15. The firing of three registered nurses who stood up for patient safety in spite of the Mesquite hospital’s insistence that profits come first prompted the hearing. 
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Aug. 25, 2007
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CHICAGO — Ten days after walking off their jobs, immigrant workers at Cygnus Corp.’s soap factory here scored a victory by being hired back without reprisals and with an increase in pay.
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Early in June, Roche Pharmaceuticals announced a global recall of nelfinavir (marketed as Viracept) after discovering batches were contaminated with a carcinogen at its Swiss manufacturing plant in March.
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I recently attended a reading of “Buried: The Sago Mine Disaster” as part of the San Diego 6th@Penn Theatre’s Resilience of the Human Spirit Festival. Lately the news has been filled with stories of mining disasters, so I felt this was a must-see performance. I wasn’t wrong.
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The Iraq war statistics shown on screen at the end of Charles Ferguson’s’ debut documentary, “No End in Sight,” consciously wallop you back to the title. The numbers are not easy to swallow, but they’re probably the only clear issue in the movie.
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When U.S. jazz great Max Roach came to the Havana International Jazz Plaza Festival in 1989, he spoke to Cuban writer Leonardo Acosta about his first trip to Cuba in the mid-1950s. Sadly, Roach wasn’t allowed to enter the Tropicana Cabaret in pre-revolutionary Cuba because of the color of his skin.
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Imagine for a moment that you’re an American oil executive. You’re pondering the prospects for the next big oil strike overseas — and dreaming of a place where the government is stable and compliant, the royalties are low and the environmental standards minimal. Is it just a dream? Not at all. Just look north to the tar sands of central Alberta, Canada.
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Two years ago, Hurricane Katrina caused tens of thousands of families to lose their homes. Last year, the home mortgage meltdown that is now sweeping the country took the homes of 800,000 families. This year, the number could reach 2 million.
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If anything should be a no-brainer for the world’s richest country, it is making sure all its children have basic health care. That’s part of securing our nation’s future, right? Wrong, says the Bush administration.
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On Conyers and impeachment
Bonds still accountable
Never forget
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