Michael Moore quotes in his current film, "Capitalism: A Love Story." ...more

October 28, 2009

President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown exuded optimism about a global deal to help pull the world out of recession on Wednesday, downplaying a rift with French President Nicolas Sarkozy ahead of the imminent Group of 20 leaders summit. ...more

April 1, 2009

Ye Gads! Great Scott! Great Jehosafat! They never stop! It was devastating enough that corporate CEOs succeeded in achieving the standard of minimum wages for American workers while they "earned" billion dollar profits through outsourcing. It was devastating enough that they, Wall Street, bankers and mortgage companies, nearly destroyed our economic system through criminal skullduggery. ...more

March 26, 2009

Taking money from taxpayers to bailout international companies strips freedom from all citizens. ...more

March 13, 2009

When New York Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a commencement address at Oglethorpe University in May 1932, the economic crisis that had befallen the United States three years earlier had already morphed into the Great Depression: One in four Americans was out of work, banks were failing at a rate of 10 per week and the gross national product was at half its pre-crash level. ...more

December 27, 2008

Longtime Republican incumbents Doug Belden and Rob Turner will return to their offices as tax collector and property appraiser, respectively. ...more

November 5, 2008

End Of An Era When the residents of Lexington fired on the British troops, there was no appreciation for the moment defining the nation's birth pangs. Yet it did. And when "the shot heard round the world" was iconized, that space and its many actors gained immortality. ...more

October 19, 2008

Property Appraiser Rob Turner likes to remind residents: He doesn't set taxes. Still, it doesn't keep critics like Democratic challenger Ken Ayers from accusing the three-term Republican incumbent of taxing people out of their homes. ...more

October 19, 2008

Just about everyone is watching Wall Street these days wondering what's going to fall next. Giant investment firms have tumbled and other financial companies have been bought by the federal government because their demise would severely harm our economic system. It's scary for regular folks who are worrying about their 401ks, IRAs and any other investment. ...more

September 18, 2008

Ernest Lane of Trinity says Charley Reese overstates extent of nation's economic problems. ...more

January 29, 2008