Politics and health care from the heartland
As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington used to say, "Politics ain't beanbag."
Houston elects first openly gay mayor
The election of Annise Parker to the office of Houston mayor is a major accomplishment for progressive forces in Houston and around the country.
I remember Ted Kennedy
I was a senior at Amherst College in the spring of 1964 when I boarded a chartered bus with my wife Joyce and our son Morgan, then less than six months old, for a trip to Washington, D.C., to lobby for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. When we arrived in the nation's capital we went to a hearing room in the Russell Senate Office Building.
