Imperium Watch: Taxes–What History Tells Us
No other function of government exposes a nation’s real priorities like taxation. At a time when the issue of tax policy has come to a head, it’s instructive to look back at the history of the income tax in America. The current debate in Congress hinges on...Round One to Tosado?
Has the city of Springfield finally seen the end of the Great Trash Fee War? Last week, the City Council rejected a proposal by Mayor Domenic Sarno to extend the much-despised residential trash fee, instead supporting a competing proposal, by Council President Jose...
Thinking Inside the Block
Publicist Annie Thompson likens him to Cosimo di Medici, the legendary patriarch of the Florentine family revered for its arts patronage, an integral force in the creative and intellectual flowering of the Renaissance. The comparison is not far off the...Letters: What Do You Think?
Corporations Abuse Trust Every time we have extended an olive branch of trust to corporate America, they have turned around and screwed everyone involved. Corporate America decides money is more important than safety and the mine blows up, or the oil rig explodes,...E-Edition
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