by Terrance Heath | Mar 31, 2008 | Blog
Bear Stearns has been rescued, and its shareholders have been placated. Wall Street has several invigorating injections of billions of tax-payer dollars. Now that a great deal of public wealth has gone to prop up private wealth, maybe some of that public wealth can be...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 26, 2008 | Blog
Like some middle class kids in my generation, education was a high priority. In my house it was emphasized as the doorway to upward mobility. (The idea of learning for learning's sake was something I discovered later.) If I wanted a "good job," I'd better...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 25, 2008 | Blog
Part Seven of a Series Imagine that you've come upon two people who have somehow fallen into a very deep hole, which neither of them can climb out of on their own. (Nor, for some reason, can they help one another climb out.) In the course of figuring out what to do,...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 19, 2008 | Blog
I sat on the panel on "Blog Power: 2008 and Beyond" at the Take Back America conference Tuesday, alongside Pam Spaulding, Digby, Tracy Russo, and Chris Bowers. Towards the end, someone in the audience asked a question that made me think about what being a progressive...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 17, 2008 | Blog
Starting with Monday's panel, "Health Care For All: The Plan to Get There," during Take Back America we're talking about health care. Every day. It's obvious why. Health care is a concern for every family in America — those with insurance and the 47 million...
