by Terrance Heath | Jun 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Late last week, I was invited to be a debater in today's New York Times "Room for Debate" online discussion. The debate is focused on last week's news that mothers are now the primary breadwinners in 40 percent of American households, and the hand-wringing about the...
by Terrance Heath | May 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Something's happening out there, in fast food restaurants, retail shops, and other places where people work for minimum wage or minimal wages, and don't earn enough to live on. It started in New York, and from there spread to Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee,...
by Terrance Heath | May 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Washington may be in for a very hot summer. I don't mean the usual sweltering heat and suffocating humidity that are just a natural part of living in a former swamp (or "tidal plain," if you prefer). While the rest of us will be sweating through another Washington...
by Terrance Heath | May 23, 2013 | Blog
Even before the winds died down in his home state, Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn insisted that additional disaster relief be "paid for" by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget. Coburn defended his position by invoking the children pulled from the rubble of two...
by Terrance Heath | May 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
President Obama has promised Oklahoma "everything that it needs right away" to begin the process of recovering and rebuilding, after the massive tornado touched down in the state on Monday, devastating the cities of Monroe and Newcastle. Already hundreds of Federal...
