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Mary Lyon is a veteran broadcaster ad five-time Golden Mike Award winner, who has anchored, reported, and written for the Associated Press Radio Network, NBC Radio "The Source," and many Los Angeles-area stations including KRTH-FM/AM, KLOS-FM, KFWB-AM, and KTLA-TV, and occasional media analyst for ABC Radio News. She began her career as a liberal activist with the Student Coalition for Humphrey/Muskie in 1968, and helped spearhead a regional campaign, "The Power 18," to win the right to vote for 18-year-olds. She remains an advocate for liberal causes, responsibility and accountability in media, environmental education and support of the arts for children, and green living. In addition to OpEdNews, Mary writes for Democrats.us, World News Trust, and WeDemocrats.org's "We! The People" webzine. Mary is also a parenting expert, having written and illustrated the book "The Frazzled Working Woman's Practical Guide to Motherhood."
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Gore's Not the Only One Who Won
Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize is a great victory for him, and a great validation for the millions who always believed in him.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 9, 2007 The Chastening
The lunatics are leaving the White House asylum. And as they go, they leave all blame, acceptance of responsibility, or true contrition to somebody else.
SHARE Tuesday, October 2, 2007 Rush to Judgment (I Hope)
One of the nation's leading chickenhawks may have started a war he can't win.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Mahmoud and Me
The controversial visit of Iran's president shines a glaring light on an overriding crisis of trust - and what we simply have to find a way to get beyond.
SHARE Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Shock Treatment
Whether dissent is put down through cold shoulder or hot electric jabs, the frustration remains the same. Many of us are STILL not being heard.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Something Wicked This Way Came
September 11th 2007 has only added insult to the injury of six years ago, as the reputation of yet another general becomes the latest casualty in the "War on Terror."
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 4, 2007 Everything But the Plastic Turkey
Bush's latest surprise visit to Iraq, like the handful of others before it, was hardly a reflection of the truth over there. But do you think most of America will catch on?
SHARE Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Why Alberto Gonzales Did a "Good" Job
George W. Bush has occasional accidents of honesty. The latest lapse occurred with his assessment of the legacy of Alberto Gonzales.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 14, 2007 All Roads Still Lead to Rove
"Bush's Brain" REALLY saying sayonara? I wouldn't bet the house (or the White House) on it.
SHARE Friday, August 10, 2007 Yet Another Bridge Too Far
The bridge disaster in Minneapolis should finally make us face the bridge we really have to repair. There is another bridge that needs crossing. And it's that unmentionable bridge, that fearsome Bridge-That-Must-Not-Be-Named, The Bridge WAY Too Far, especially for America's loyal, patriotic CONservatives. They fear to tread that way even more than they shrink from accountability.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 7, 2007 The Bridge Too Far
The Minneapolis bridge isn't the only bridge that's broken. The bridge we have to build, as Americans, is that which links tax revenue to serving the greater public good.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 18, 2007 A Very Vitter Pill
The Perils of the Pecadillo, or how the DC Madam's latest goat endangered his Senate career, his reputation, his partisan pals, and his Significant Other Woman.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 11, 2007 Leave 'Em Wanting Moore
It takes a rumpled but wide-awake media outsider to teach a lesson that the well-coifed, best-dressed media insiders chose to sleep through.
SHARE Wednesday, July 4, 2007 Scooter and the Tipping Points
The latest outrage over Scooter Libby MAY have been the "last straw." But whose? Ours, Congress,' or Bush's?
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 27, 2007 "And You're Okay with This?"
There simply MUST come a time when even Congress says Dick Cheney has gone too far.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 16, 2007 What Paris Means
Is justice blind - or merely blonde? If it can happen to Paris Hilton, it should happen to Scooter Libby and his GOP scofflaw friends, also.
SHARE Friday, June 8, 2007 Undebatably Yours, Revisited
If the Democrats can cave, so can I So much for leaving the GOP debaters on "ignore"...
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 7, 2007 Undebatably Yours
When is just about any Democrat acceptable? When they're up against just about any Republican.
SHARE Wednesday, May 30, 2007 I STILL Stand with Cindy
Cindy Sheehan's anguish should be our own. But her withdrawal from the anti-war frontlines should not be.
SHARE Tuesday, May 22, 2007 "Texas Poled 'Em"
There's only one way to play the game with George W. Bush and Alberto Gonzales and friends. And that is to refuse to play in the first place.