by Miguel A. De La Torre | Sep 30, 2009 | Opinion
In the days just after the war of independence, Liborio (the personification of Cuba in the same way Uncle Sam personifies the United States) was alone in the cane field, still cutting as others ate their meager lunches. He chopped through a row of cane to discover...
by Andy Watts | Sep 30, 2009 | Opinion
Health care has recently emerged to be one more system based on the myth of merit, joining education and business as American shibboleths of individuality. The myth of merit, in turn, creates self-perpetuating systems of disadvantage for those stuck at the bottom....
by Jan Chapman | Sep 29, 2009 | Opinion
I met Gaby Duffy in the summer of 2004 when she came to our annual weeklong family vacation party at Lake LBJ in central Texas. She came with her best friend, Maren Anderson, brought along her ever-present camera and left a trail of sparkly fun in her path. We...
by Mark Woods | Sep 29, 2009 | Opinion
The poor you always have with you, Jesus said. But the mark of a civilized society is that it will set a limit to that poverty. France’s Henri IV said that he would have no peasant in his kingdom too poor to have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. A modest aim...
by Trey Lyon | Sep 29, 2009 | Opinion
On any given day, airwaves and satellites are jammed with information regarding healthcare, poverty, crime, taxation and the environment. The lingering and occasionally vociferous debates over these issues reflect what many already know – that these are often nuanced...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 28, 2009 | Opinion
One resurfacing memory from my teen years was when some friends and I were offered three bucks each to eat. That’s right, being paid to eat — a teenage boy’s dream.The Krystal Company, the Chattanooga-based producers of square hamburgers with the lovely...
