In the Public Interest

In the escalating veto war between Gerald Ford and the Congress, it is time to ask why the White House is so far ahead in its strategic use of that presidential authority compared to the naive and unimaginative measures pursued by the Congress to override it. Through the use of intricate power plays, White House…

U.S. and foreign fishery firms are harvesting about one fifth of the fish resources available on an annually renewable basis off our shores. This startling fact, contained in a recent General Accounting Office (GAO) report, contrasts starkly with the worsening news about world hunger and rising meat prices in this country and abroad. How can…

Question: What is it that would cost the public less than a million dollars a year but is driving multibillion-dollar banks and corporations frantic? Answer: HR7590, a bill to provide for annual congres­sional audit of the giant Federal Reserve System. WITH THE VOTE by the House of Representatives on this legislation expected within the month,…

Earlier this year, a stream of letters from workers at the Dow Chemi­cal plant in Michigan pour­ed into senatorial offices to protest the bill that would require safeguards for toxic chemical substances. Inspired and guided by Dow executives, these workers wrote their sena­tors because management had led them to believe that jobs would be lost…

I’ve come across a General Motors statement that finally makes sense! It has nothing to do with automobiles or the ways they are built. Rather, it describes a vast source of practical energy that grows annually in this country and is left on the farm after harvest —the non-edible parts of plants such as cornstalks…

You would think that, in the midst of the nation’s largest disclosed corporate crime wave, Washington would be replete with focused concern and corrective action. Not so. Look at the scene of indifference: 1. There are no congressional investigations planned on business crime and the need for stronger laws and more enforcement resources and prosecutorial…

How can government and corporate officials become more sensitive to the an­guish, hopes, ideas and strengths of the people? This is one of the cardi­nal, age-old questions of justice and democracy, par­ticularly in a society where huge organizations are headed by remote, often inaccessible rulers with more power than they can responsibly use. It is…

How many times have you wondered how to find the best auto repair shops, plumbers, banks, health insurance, pharmacies, TV or appliance repair outlets, household movers, employ­ment agencies, nursing homes, hospital emergency rooms and other services in your community? Robert M. Krughoff also wondered, and two years ago he resigned his federal job in Washington…

The increasing corporate grip over some labor lead­ers is troubling consumer, environmental, health and tax reform groups. Big business strategists, exploiting the conditions of unemployment and utilizing a very accommodating White House, are using scare and divide-and-rule techniques as their major tactics. GEORGE MEANY, head of the AFL-CIO, recently demonstrated a confused perception of the…

“Tax reform” is a phrase that means all things to all people, especially in Wash­ington. To corporations, “tax re­form” means lower taxes and special loopholes al­legedly to give them more incentive to make money from consumers To the average taxpayer, “tax reform” means repeal­ing those loopholes and spe­cial provisions for the rich and powerful so…