Common Cause Magazine articles from March 1994

Common Cause Magazine archives from March 1994

No sacred cows. (Food and Drug Administration regulation of dietary supplements)
March 22, 1994... POLITICAL KRYPTONITE Donna Jones, a Takoma Park Md., photographer, suffered for two years from respiratory problems, coughing so severely she broke a rib. Prescription medications didn't work, so she tried herbal remedies. Her symptoms...

Unaltered states. (presidential proclamations)
March 22, 1994... Feeling tense? Can't shake the anxiety? Maybe you're just reacting to the national emergency, the one declared by the president. President Truman, that is. Yes, it's been 43 years since the man from Independence, responding to North...

Banker, spare that tree. (Headwaters Forest Act)
March 22, 1994... Call it the 1990s version of robbing Peter to pay Paul, or maybe "the S&L crisis meets an old-growth forest." The story, which proves once again that truth is stranger than fiction, features the head of a logging company that's felling...

Whose bank is this, anyway? (Federal Reserve System power struggles)
March 22, 1994... When officials of the Federal Reserve System came before the House Banking Committee last fall, they looked less like venerable central bankers than turf-sensitive capitalist cowboys. The tight-lipped officials, whose power is derived in part...

The Michigan experiment. (economic reform under Governor John Engler)(includes related article on Engler's involvement with the Mackinac Center)
March 22, 1994... Cut taxes! Throw the deadbeats off welfare! Take control of the schools! All this and more--or is that less? CADILLAC, DODGE, FORD AND OLDSMOBILE all debuted innovative models this winter at the North American International Auto Show in...

If this is the information superhighway, where are the rest stops? (consumer advocate activity)(includes related article on intellectual property rights)
March 22, 1994... In a brave new world, consumer advocates hustle to be heard. It's hard to say when it happened exactly, but at some point around Halloween things started moving very quickly on the telecommunications front. Suddenly, what was once a...

Mismanaged care: what happens when a high-profit HMO and a friendly state government decide to do business together. (health maintenance organization, results of Arizona health care reform)(includes related article on Intergroup)
March 22, 1994... What happens when a high-profit HMO and a friendly state government decide to do business together. It's worth remembering two years later, how the bungling of health insurance benefits for Arizona state employees began. it was not some...

The mediators: how a little-known government program helps defuse racial tension in communities across America. (Community Relations Service)
March 22, 1994... How a little-known government program helps defuse racial tension in communities across America. Memphis did not erupt the night the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Ozell Sutton likes to think he had something to do with that. ...

Congress girds for action on CC's key issues. (Common Cause)
March 22, 1994... 1994 IS A TIME of intense activity for Common Cause. At press time the House of Representatives had voted to reauthorize the independent counsel statute, which establishes an independent process for prosecuting alleged wrongdoing by...

Time to deliver. (campaign promises for campaign finance and lobby reform) (Column)
March 22, 1994... "The work of change, frankly, will never get any, easier until we limit the influence of well-financed interests who profit from this current system. So I also must now call on you to finish the job both houses began last year, by passing tough...