By not confronting the real reason for rising prices, politicians play upon our fears and our wallets suffer

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

The first time I filled up with $4-per-gallon gas, I watched a truck at the next island fill up with diesel that was nearly five bucks. Is this supposed to make me feel good? 

Hardly. America doesn’t really run on Dunkin’, it runs on diesel. The price of diesel fuel affects everything from the food we eat to our school taxes, since both vegetables and kids need it to get where they’re going, and they do that, for the most part, in diesel-powered buses and trucks. And for many of us in the wintertime diesel goes by a different name: home heating oil. If the price of fuel continues to rise between now and the end of autumn, we may be looking at a pinch on working people that will have us missing the glory days of $4 a gallon.

A one-time community organizer, Barack Obama would bring a novel perspective to the White House

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

It will be no surprise to you that this November we may make history. For months the talk has been that, if the Democrats prevail, we will have, for the first time, either a woman or an African-American as president of the United States.

A black bear gains criminal status before authorities act to control its errant behavior

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

Stimulus is a tiny rebate of a massive theft from the working class

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

The Bigger Better Bottle Bill could reverse years of plastic-bottle pollution

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

Sometimes we like to holler at politicians to do the right thing, when it would be simpler to just do it ourselves. Usually the most profound and subversive of acts are the ones that individuals can take on their own. Here’s an example.

Hillary Clinton may have to cede the nomination in exchange for Barack Obama pushing her health care plan

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

Americans visiting China can effect change there if they’re not afraid to speak up

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

If you want help saving your house, you best be an investment house

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

Change will be difficult for the next president, who will operate under a federal deficit

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

The aftermath of the Eliot Spitzer mess left a good number of winners and losers

By Ed Griffin-Nolan