AltWeeklies Wire
John Edwards Takes Gloves Off for Health Carenew
If elected, Edwards says, he'll give Congress six months to enact universal health care, effective July 20, 2009.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
11-26-2007 |
Commentary
An Ugly Veterans Daynew
While President Bush memorialized past and present troops last Monday, he threatened to veto a bill laden with millions of dollars for veterans job and rehabilitation programs.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
11-16-2007 |
Commentary
Tags: George W. Bush, Veterans Day
The Politics of Dancingnew
Musically speaking, few songs sound more like slippery politics than Strauss' "Blue Danube Waltz," which John Edwards recently used in an ad targeting Hillary Clinton.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
11-16-2007 |
Commentary
Auditions Open for an Anti-Clinton?new
John Edwards tries to replace Barack Obama as the main challenger to Clinton in the Democratic race.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
11-01-2007 |
Commentary
John Edwards Watch: The Money Gamenew
Edwards has "substantially closed the cash gap" merely by opting into the public financing system.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
10-25-2007 |
Commentary
John Edwards Watch: Primary Motivesnew
So far, Edwards is trailing badly in New Hampshire.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
10-18-2007 |
Commentary
Elizabeth Dole's Bad Foreign Policynew
By voting for CAFTA, Dole ignores the link between U.S. economic policy and the throngs of immigrants crossing our southern border.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
08-23-2007 |
Commentary
Profiles in Courage -- and Cowardicenew
Last week we saw how the House Democrats managed, John Kerry-style, to vote for the blank-check Iraq War funding bill before they voted against it.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
06-08-2007 |
Commentary
Recuse Yourselfnew
Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong should step down from the Duke lacrosse case.
INDY Week |
Richard Hart |
01-11-2007 |
Commentary
Big Change or Business As Usual?new
We'll just have to wait and see what the new Congress brings.
INDY Week |
Peter Eichenberger |
11-16-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: 2006elect
Who Wins?new
Finally, it looks like a majority of Americans can see what the Bush administration's critics have warned for years -- that they will say or do anything, exploit any fear, invoke any prejudice to hold power.
INDY Week |
Richard Hart |
11-02-2006 |
Commentary
Moving Racism Off City Propertynew
Raliegh's delayed reaction to sanitation workers' unprecedented work stoppage has shown the city to be little short of a share-cropping community imbued with reactionary racism.
INDY Week |
Peter Eichenberger |
10-12-2006 |
Commentary
The Sheriff of Nottingham Returnsnew
People are working harder, earning less, and the rich are raking it in -- where's Robin Hood when we need him?
INDY Week |
Hal Crowther |
10-04-2006 |
Commentary
Terror Goes Both Waysnew
Is there an example in American history of the police reacting to a radical threat and not making things worse?
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
09-07-2006 |
Commentary
