Day October 14, 2003

Oink, oink, oink. Grocery chain CEO  compensations These are the CEOs who are whining that $17 an hour is just too much to pay their workers. Albertson’sLawrence Johnston, CEO of Albertson’s, makes 12.22 million a year.  That works out to…

In Los Angeles, the workers are restless L.A. grocery strike joined by transportation strikeThe 70,000 grocery workers now on strike in southern California were joined at midnight Monday by Metropolitan Transit Authority workers. The mechanics union is striking and workers will…

That’s what we’re afraid of President Bush on Monday rejected complaints from some members of Congress that he needs to assert more control over Iraq policy, saying, “The person who is in charge is me.” Someone less linguistically challenged, of course,…

Kinky Friedman for governor: “How hard can it be?” Kinky Friedman — novelist, humorist, essayist — thinks he might want to be the next governor of Texas.But if Lance Armstrong and Willie Nelson stay out of the race, you’re probably…