Category: Ben Downing

Let’s Buy A Farm

Mickey Friedman December 17, 2011 If there’s one thing I learned from hearing “Oklahoma” eight million times it’s that the cowboys and the farmers should be friends. We’re short of cowboys and growing short of farmers around these parts. Which…

Sen. Downing’s ‘Tips Bill’ & Fundraising Raise Questions

By Bill Shein October 31, 2011 There’s at least one thread that runs through the many-flavored Occupy Wall Street protests: Big money from a narrow economic elite, flowing into and around our political system, has distorted participatory democracy to create…