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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