Off the Grid Index
Posts by Mary Papenfuss
OFF THE GRID is about why the news is the news. Here are the real motivations of both media and newsmakers. Here's the backstory. This is a look at the inner workings of desperate media, the inner life of the publicity crazed, and the true meaning of the news of the day.
Pot as the Answer to California's Prayers
Off the Grid | Jul 29, 09 8:45 AM CDT
Mary Papenfuss - If you're of a certain mellowed mind, legalizing pot in California is a no-brainer. It's already a $5.4 billion industry that could help fill up the state's empty coffers with taxes. Everyone on the Left Coast is toking up anyway, right? There's just one snake in the grass: the drug thugs. Big-time weed merchants aren't friendly neighborhood...
Murder-Suicide Is the New Normal
Off the Grid | Apr 29, 09 3:08 PM CDT
Mary Papenfuss - One sign that this economic hole we’re in is not your father’s (or your grandfather’s) Great Depression: Those iconic stories of ruined investors leaping from windows have been replaced with something much more contemporary—wives and children slaughtered by their cash-strapped , suicidal husbands and fathers. More pro-active...
