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25 July 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- Now some fools want to fire Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, the only straight-shooter in the Cabinet. Tell you what I like about O'Neill: He's from Widget World. This Cabinet is wall-to-wall corporate America, but most...
25 July 2002
With huge financial scandals causing turmoil in the United States, this year has seen some vigorous reporting about high-level misdeeds and corporate manipulation. But many news stories just take the lead from top officials. In the...
24 July 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- OK, it's now hundreds of thousands of words past the WorldCom bankruptcy, with the media might of this great nation devoted to explaining it all to you, and there are still six words I cannot find anywhere -- the...
18 July 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- There' some stiff competition in the Stupidest Thing Said Yet department about the swoon in the financial markets. But among the heavy contenders we must surely count those who are now saying they know who's responsible,...
18 July 2002
Free Press writers Bob Fitrakis and Marty Yant won a First Place award from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists for their coverage of the John Byrd death penalty case in Columbus Alive. They are currently working on a book...
17 July 2002
Thirty years ago the Free Press ran an ad for the first Community Festival. We’re two years older than the Festival, but a product of the same cultural and political rebellion against the war in Vietnam and the “plastic” suburban...

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