A public-interest group is urging sportswriters to resist a
free-enterprise wave of the future. "Corporations are seizing the names of
our beloved parks and stadiums, and replacing these with their own,"
Commercial Alert complains in a...
13 June 2000
So you're going along thinking it's the year 2000,
Information Age, digital revolution, high-tech economy, all that jazz, and
then you look at the headlines.
American General, one of the biggest insurance companies in the country,...
11 June 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- First there was good news. Let's hear it for the U.S.
Senate, a profile in courage. A 57-42 vote on requiring "527s" -- the
tax-exempt organizations that secretly raise and spend millions to influence
elections -- to...
08 June 2000
There's a slick new term surfing its way into the mass media. "E-government."
Al Gore has given it a big shove forward with a major campaign speech. "The power of government," he proclaimed, "should not be locked away in Washington,...
08 June 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- At the mythical Fearmonger's Shoppe ("Serving all your
phobia needs") in Lake Wobegon last week, there was a special on ways to
prevent your early death from the frightful menace of bad handwriting by
doctors. A puzzled...
06 June 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- My friend Linda Aaker recently visited Europe and came
back talking, as Americans so often do, about the great public
transportation in this country, the terrific child-care system in that
country and the wonderful public...
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