Health Care Reform

This is the most important subject on the President's agenda. The economic crisis is important, but health care is the problem that is affecting everyone's lives... Nowhere else in the world is so much money spent with such poor results. On that point there is rare unanimity among Washington decision…

…Pursuit of Really Fresh Produce

Is eating locally produced food a civic duty?The folks at Kitchen Gardeners International might not call it a duty, exactly. But the group -- one of the organizations whose efforts led to the planting of a kitchen garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. this spring -- argues that buying and eating…

Earth Day 2009

This was to be the start of my last year at my former employment. A couple of years ago or so, I thought the 30th anniversary of Earth Day would be an auspicious time to start a new phase of my life...Then the knee jerk reaction to the economic picture…

Only in Texas

Thursday, April 02, 2009 This week, I will vote against the massive $3.6 trillion budget proposed by President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress, and Texans deserve to understand why. I believe this budget taxes too much, spends too much and borrows too much. This budget will delay economic recovery…