THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST
A MONTHLY JOURNAL FROM THE HEARTLAND
April 1997 -- Volume 3, Number
4
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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EDITORIALS:
Don't Snooze on Cyberrules
JIM HIGHTOWER:
Clinton's Welfare Switch
Lobbyists and Lawmakers Rendezvous
Mickey in Haiti
'Saving' Social Security
Boskin Lies
Wall Street's Bonus Babies
SWAMP FEVER/James
Carville
America's Out-of-Control Scandal Machine
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Schindler's Schmuck
Don't 'Naptown' Us
Throw Out the TV
Don't Trust Kelly
RURAL ROUTES
The Battle over Biodiversity, by Kelly Luker
FEATURE:
Even Small Depositors Get to Say Where Their Savings Go, by Paul Bush
JAMES K. GALBRAITH:
Alan Greenspan, the Sun King
CALAMITY
HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
The Lost World: Cereal Manufacturing
TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
Drinkers Can't See Bimbettes' Real Things
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas: Ungagging Doctors.
JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: Faust in the Cloakrooms.
BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly: What About Wages?
FEATURE:
Supermarket Sweeps: Unraveling the 'Best Documented Corporate Crime in American
History', by A.V. Krebs
SPEECH:
The Unfinished Agenda, by Robert Reich
WORK IN PROGRESS: Action
in Motown
LABOR TALK/Harry
Kelber: Organizing Workfare.
COMMENTS:
Close the Wage Gap: Eliminate the CEO Subsidy, by Chuck Collins
IN CONGRESS:
Limit Deductions on Excessive CEO Pay, by Rep. Martin Olav Sabo.
COVER
STORY: El Nuevo West: Immigrants Come to Ski Country, by Lisa Jones
COMMENTS:
Immigrants, Meatpacking and My Town: I Confess My Confusion, by Art Cullen
AN AMERICAN'S STORY:
Iris Dement: Hillbilly Angel Not Afraid to Ask Questions, by Lee Nichols
REPORT: Congressional Bipartisanship and
Big Contributors, by Nancy Watzman, James Youngclaus and Jennifer Schecter
MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph:
President Clinton: Don't Let RCA Move to Mexico.
NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting:
Alabama's Plan to Cut Taxes.
GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows: Alar Apology
DAVID MORRIS: In the Wake of
the Telecomm Act
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon:
When Coverage of Media Power Gets Hazy
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader: Beware 'Modern' Banks
JESSE JACKSON: The Bribe Price
BOB HARRIS: Free TV for Candidates?
LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales:
Teachers Suffering for Challenging Traditional History
TED RALL: Gramps' Last Call
HAL CROWTHER: Send in the Clown
FREELANCE: Third Party Activists to Meet in
Decatur May 2-4
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
Bulldozing a National Monument
Girl with Grit Takes on School District
MOLLY
IVINS:
A Tragedy for the '90s out in Sunny California
Conspiracy Theories, Stockbrokers and Class Warfare
Political Rorschach Test for Our Time
EUGENE J. McCARTHY: Abolish the Vice-Presidency
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