Author Archives: Jane Alexander

Thank you for your article on Kathy Cummings’s fight to get on the ballot as the Green Party’s representative for the Fourth District [The Works, September 15]. I think it was Ben Joravsky who first brought Kathy to my attention in a [1994] article. Monsanto had just gotten FDA approval for its rBGH (recombinant bovine […]

alex.qxd Harold Henderson’s article “Money Hogs” (May 2) was a great addition to the growing number of articles on corporate hog factories. Chicagoans are gradually learning what’s happening 200 miles to the south of them, and what this industry looks like. The corporatized wealthy taking over rural America is not new. It’s been going on […]