The Giving Season
Rothschild, Matthew
Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild The Giving Season It's the giving season, and our government is in the mood to give: to the Pentagon, that is. Military spending is going up 10 percent in 2005,...
...This month, Barbara Miner explores an undercovered story for us: the stealth depression in the black community...
...More than any other person (with the possible exception of George Bush), she was responsible for boosting our circulationtonow-record heights...
...Military spending is going up 10 percent in 2005, to a dizzying $500 billion, while spending on domestic discretionary programs is creeping up only about 1 percent...
...Closing out the day's event was none other than Willie Nelson, who fittingly opened his intimate set with "Living in the Promised Land...
...Joy Wallin, our publisher, who has been with us for sixteen years, ismoving on...
...In the departures and arrivals categories, I have newstoreport...
...It will be a cold, cold winter for millions of Americans, thanks to Bush and the Republican Congress...
...Our country is changing from a democracy into something else before our very eyes," he warned...
...Our new publisher is Amber Hewins, who is simply the single most qualified person in the country for the job...
...Hightower said Bush "wears a $1,000 hat on a ten cent head...
...Similarly, Congress boosted its home-heating assistance program to the poor by 15 percent, but the price to heat homes this winter has gone up, on average, by 24 percent, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities...
...And founder Ronnie Dugger held forth like a latter-day Jeremiah...
...African Americans will be among the coldest...
...Molly Ivins and Jim Hightower, both former editors, spoke with their usual spice...
...Today, I admire its investigative reporting, its political poetry, and-as always-its sense of humor, which was much on display at the celebration...
...Rooted in the soil of Texas populism, for five decades it has stood as a bulwark against racism, the death penalty, war, and corporate greed...
...She was here through thin and thinner, and her intelligence, her steadiness, her hard work, and her sound judgment proved indispensabletothe survival of this magazine.Ithink the worldofJoy, andIwish her all the best...
...Now that's the holiday spirit...
...So here's to The Texas Observer, and to another fifty years of grit and wit...
...Her expertise will hold this magazine in good stead...
...Congress decided not to provide an extra $1 billion for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, even though this amount had been unused by the program last year...
...Working-age black males face staggering levels of unemployment: as high as 50 percent in several big cities, and an astonishing 59 percent in Milwaukee, where Miner reports from...
...On December 4, I went down to Austin for the fiftieth anniversary of The Texas Observer, one of my favorite magazines...
...As a result, hundreds of thousands of low-income children won't get covered by the program...
...And while Congress raised by 5 percent the amount the government can spend on Section 8 housing for the poor, Congress cut some additional funds for housing the elderly, the homeless, and the disabled...
...Many poor households assisted by the program-the majority of which include a person who is elderly or disabled-may face considerable additional hardship during the coming winter," the center says...
...She comes to us with great experience toiling in the circulation field for such magazines as The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Granta, and Working Mother...
Vol. 69 • January 2005 • No. 1
