Paul Loeb

Paul Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time and he The Impossible Will Take a Little While. new anthology on political hope, www.paulloeb.org.

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29 January 2007
Don't fear a filibuster
Paul Loeb
With the federal minimum wage now 28 percent lower, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it was fifty years ago, Senate Republicans are nonetheless threatening...
17 January 2007
A storm of denial
Paul Loeb
It wasn’t Katrina, not even close, but Seattle’s storm of the century was no picnic. It gave me one more a taste of a future where the weather can suddenly...
05 January 2007
Gerald Ford's failure of nerve
Paul Loeb
Compared with Nixon and the Republicans who followed him, Gerald Ford looks like the embodiment of Main Street decency and prudence. Ford’s judgment seems even...
12 December 2006
Hillary Clinton and my Visa bill
Paul Loeb
I just got my Visa bill for my final election donations-all those click-and-donate appeals in my email box and on the Web. I gave more than I thought I had,...
01 December 2006
Think globally, protect the vote locally
Paul Loeb
Just as local cities have adopted environmental and wage laws that exceed federal standards, maybe it's time for local initiatives protecting the sanctity of...
05 November 2006
Is there meth in Ted Haggard's heaven?
Paul Loeb
Is there meth in Ted Haggard's heaven? Does it rot your teeth? In his 2005 Barbara Walters interview, Haggard says you can eat all the food you want in heaven...

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