EDITORIAL

GOP targets American workers

Americans are exceptionally hard-working people. The United States is the only industrialized country without a national required paid vacation law for workers. Germany and the United Kingdom decree a minimum of 20 paid days of vacation a year and France requires 30 days. Of course American companies grant paid vacations, but that is a matter of individual corporate policy and not national law. More »

OPINION

Susan Rice is President Obama's call to make for Secretary of State

GOP house members are following a horrid precedent in trying to torpedo the possible nomination of Susan Rice for Secretary of State. More »

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Fear of black voters

Those persons from Shelby County, Alabama who petitioned to have the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act are much like the former slave owners after the Civil War who had sired so-called mulatto children with black slave women.?After Reconstruction, they enacted draconian laws against miscegenation or "race mingling." More »

A vote for Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Brown deserved to win the recent battle against Scott Brown because she is sincere in her effort to work for all people throughout the state ("Warren, Brown vie for black votes as election day draws near," Bay State Banner, Nov. 1, 2012) More »

ROVING CAMERA

Do you believe the media made too much of the Petraeus sex scandal?

Yes. I believe the media should be covering news that changes and affects the lives of the masses, not affairs. More »