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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."

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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 19, 2007
It Just Takes ONE I was seriously thinking of writing this column about a crisis of conscience: somebody ? anybody ? tell me why I should bother being a Democrat anymore. The past several weeks have been almost literally hair-tearing. Our hesitancy about the confirmation of Michael Mukasey as Attorney General was recently validated when he stonewalled efforts to investigate the deliberate destruction of CIA torture tapes...
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 10, 2009
What Still Ails America Dr. Obama has made an emergency House (and Senate) call. But will it be enough to lift health care reform off the critical list?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 11, 2007
ALL These People Scare Me The climate of fear and loathing in this country has become like a door -- that now, at long last, is swinging both ways.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 23, 2007
Am I Laughing or Crying? Barrump-bump! The only cutting edges present at the 2007 White House Correspondents Association dinner were with the forks and spoons at each place setting. Sadly enough, the association itself remains a group of disgracefully dull blades.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Three Little Words Being big enough and honest enough to admit you made a mistake has become a presidential act. Why can't the Republicans try it for themselves?
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 28, 2007
Why we MUST Impeach - A Second Look The courage of Dennis Kucinich should hit all of us, especially our Congress, directly in the conscience. IMPEACHMENT isn't just an option. It's an urgent necessity.
SHARE More Sharing        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.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Benediction of Big Al Al Gore has now endorsed Barack Obama. If that's the best we can get, I'll take it.

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