A well-grounded corporate citizen
Wake up and smell the coffee. Take a look at Starbucks, a remarkably successful company. It opened its first store in Seattle in 1971. In 2003, it had 7,300 retail outlets -- none of them franchises -- and more than 25 million customers a week across the world. It grossed about $4 billion in annual revenues.
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Wage fight isn't minorities' alone
Last week in Washington, Sen. Edward Kennedy, backed by John Kerry, revived his drive to increase the minimum wage. Republicans in Congress won't even allow a vote on the measure. President Bush not only opposes an increase in the minimum wage at this time, he opposes a minimum wage altogether.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Abuse of power makes U.S. weak
Is America's security grounded in its military strength or its moral strength? Today, America dominates the world's militaries, but has relinquished much of its moral authority. Does that make us safer or more vulnerable?
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Reagan era nothing to be proud of
Last week we paid respect to Ronald Reagan, saluting his optimism, his ability to communicate and his grandfatherly affability. But Reagan was an ideological politician. He championed ideas that helped forge a conservative era. Reagan was largely on the wrong side of history and his era is exhausted, his ideas part of our problem, not part of our solution.
Tuesday, June 8, 2004
What Appalachia says about U.S.
The hills of Appalachia have a hard truth about them. This is God's country -- stark, untamed, rich in coal, scarred by man. In Appalachia, reality hits you in the face like a hard fist and exposes the rhetoric of Washington for what it is.
