THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST
A MONTHLY JOURNAL FROM THE HEARTLAND
March 1997 -- Volume 3, Number
3
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITORIALS:
Demand Campaign Finance Reform
JIM HIGHTOWER:
Expert Lies
The Sporting News 100
Pampering Corporate Directors
Welfare Housing for Rich
Free Enterprise Ads
Green Front Groups
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Corporations ARE people
Fresh air
Some minor complaints
Who 'owns' public lands
Give us addresses
FEATURE: Christie Whitman: Putting a Human
Face on Greed, by Hank Kalet.
FEATURE: Chefs Meet Farmers, Even Credit Them on Their Menus, by Marianne
Comfort.
SIDEBAR: Even in Farm State, Farmers and Chefs Need Introduction.
LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber: No-Cash Overtime Work.
WORK IN PROGRESS/AFL-CIO: GOP Aims at Overtime.
SPEECH: The Unfinished Agenda: Race, Poverty
and Gender in America,
by U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone.
BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly: Ethics of Stress.
PROFILE: Easy Greider: Reporter Keeps Challenging the Establishment, by
Chris Potter.
JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: No Representation Without Taxation.
COMMENT: In the Belly of the Pods, by Philip A. Farrugio.
GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows: Dumb Things We Could Stop Doing.
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas: The Force is Technology.
TED RALL: Surreal Estate:
The Bizarre World of the Home Appreciation Fetish
COVER STORY: Milking the Family Farm: Wisconsin Farm Leader Organizes Effective
Coalition Against Agri-Business, by David Engelken.
SIDEBAR: Management or Stress? A Test for Bovine Growth Hormone in Milk?
JESSE JACKSON: A Champion to the End.
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader: Corporations Pile Up Excess Profits.
MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph: Class Warfare.
NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting: Rent a Spy Satellite.
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon: O.J. Coverage Rescues Nation from TV Pundits
DAVID MORRIS: Airline Companies Savage Sense of Community.
COMMENT: O.J. May be a Killer, but He Did Us All a Good Turn, by Joyce Marcel.
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith: Den Mother of the Democrats' Disaster.
LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales: Puerto Rico's
'Citizen Outsiders' Want In.
MOVIE REVIEW/Delia Yeager: Ghosts of Mississippi.
ENVIRONMENT/Peter Montague: Infectious Disease and Pollution.
COMMENT: The Bootie Rule and the State of the Union, by Bob Harris.
COMMENT: Housewife from Hell, by Sharon
Perpignani
HAL CROWTHER: America the Merciless: Welfare Reforms Hit Home in Allegany
County.
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: BLM Fears
Congress Faces Family Planning.
MOLLY IVINS:
How's Doug Jones Average These Days?
Off to Switzerland with the World Savers
O.J., State of the Union and Big Campaign Bucks.
BOOK REVIEW/Peter Donovan: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason
in the West
EUGENE J. McCARTHY: Homogenized Holidays.
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