by Tim Wilkins | Jul 2, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Robert Borosage Bernie’s Ideas And Biden’s Burden "Anyway, my time is up. I’m sorry." Joe Biden may have been talking about the timer, but his hapless performance in his first Democratic debate imparted an ironic twist to the words. This first debate...
by Tim Wilkins | Jul 1, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Susan Holmberg, Bill Lilliston We Must Tame Big Ag To Tame Climate Change "Carbon farming" — building soil vitality to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere — is essential for reducing the agricultural industry’s greenhouse gas emissions. But this...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 28, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Kenia Alcocer Fund Head Start, Not Internment Camps I came to this country from Mexico as a small child because my mother was escaping poverty and wanted to give my sisters and me a better life. She worked hard to make sure we had food on our table and...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 27, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard NAFTA By Any Name Is Built For The Rich Mick Mulvaney, the millionaire who is President Trump’s acting chief of staff and director of the Office of Management and Budget, has now awarded himself another job: spokesman for labor. Referring to...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 26, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati New York Points A New Way Forward For The Nation What happens at America’s state level can sometimes reverse the political momentum of the entire nation. We experienced just such a reversal in 1978, when California conservatives pushed...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 25, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Miles Mogulescu Pelosi’s Anti-Impeachment Stance Makes Less and Less Sense Speaker Pelosi’s continued refusal to allow the House to open impeachment proceedings against President Trump is becoming increasingly incoherent. And her continued assertion...