The Longshoremen’s strike in Longview, Washington, which I have discussed before, has gone hard-core, with union members “unofficially” deciding to bust up the offending company̵
I’ve generally supported Barack Obama’s labor strategies. His appointment of people like Craig Becker to the NLRB have made real changes in working people’s lives. Yet Obama has been
I’ve pondered this question ever since Obama decided to not only undercut the EPA’s new smog rules, but to do so in a very public way, clearly intended to make him seem serious on jobs and
I love traveling. Seeing the world might mean more to me than almost any other thing I enjoy–reading, music, film, Oregon football, baseball. Maybe not good beer or bourbon, but it’s prett
So it seems that Rod Lurie is remaking Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs. I have deep reservations about this. I love Sam Peckinpah. I will defend many of his movies (OK, not Convoy, but certainly Cros
So as all of you have seen from his 100 comments on the matter, Joe from Lowell disagreed with my slamming of Obama for backing off of tightening clean air restrictions. That’s fine, he can say
Like most of New England outside of Massachusetts, Vermont has a very weak history of prominent politicians. I believe the state has contributed all of 1 person to a cabinet position, for instance. Th
This weekend begins another college football season. There are lots of you who hate college football. And there’s good reason to do so. The NCAA is a hopeless organization, measuring out punishm