MAGAZINE
October 15, 2006
Yes, people still get high ("Just Say Maybe," by Dan Neil, 800 Words, Sept. 24). And maybe the reason boomers are finding their way back to marijuana is that they are retiring in large numbers and are no longer subject to random drug testing by their employers. Charlotte Costello Fountain Valley I agree with Dan Neil. I'm not surprised that baby boomers are returning to their "grass roots." If an otherwise responsible adult chooses to decompress after a long day or on the weekends, what's the harm?
NEWS
June 11, 1986 | MARYLOUISE OATES, Times Staff Writer
The grass roots came to the lush and rolling green of Brentwood on Thursday night as People for the American Way--perhaps too long known as "Norman Lear's thing"--kicked off its organizing effort for a Southern California base.
NEWS
October 10, 1987 | MIKE GRANBERRY, Times Staff Writer
For exactly six years, the Grass Roots Cultural Center has been a meeting place for folk singers and revolutionaries, Communists and (please don't say this too loudly) a handful of quiet Republicans. So what does this suggest? A lack of focus? A lack of coherence? Changing times, marked mainly by eclecticism in thought and action? Maybe all of the above. For whatever reason, Grass Roots (which opened in October, 1981) will officially close on Thursday.
ENTERTAINMENT
February 24, 1992 | RAY LOYND
Let us count the ways to concoct a potboiler. There's politics, sex, white supremacy, rape, assassinations, homophobia, nymphomania, evangelism, suicide, the CIA, the FBI and the local sheriff. NBC's untidy "Grass Roots" (at 9 tonight and Tuesday on Channels 4, 36 and 39) has them all. At least they're spread over four hours. Naturally, all this gothic horror and chaos happens in a small town in the Deep South, which writers and moviemakers consider more ill than the rest of the country.
NATIONAL
August 20, 2009 | Christi Parsons and Janet Hook
As the going gets tougher for President Obama's plans to overhaul healthcare, the president this week is launching a renewed effort to build grass-roots support for his plan, supplementing his tour of town-hall meetings with outreach to Americans by way of opinion leaders they already know and trust. This afternoon, the president will take part in a telephone conference with clergy members of different faiths, who will talk about problems of healthcare access, and then detail his proposals for fixing those problems.
NEWS
November 15, 2009 | Max Blumenthal, Max Blumenthal, a writing fellow at the Nation Institute and a senior writer for the Daily Beast, is the author of "Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party." A longer version of this article appears at tomdispatch.com.
In a Republican Party hoping to rebound in 2010 on the strength of a newly energized and ideologically aroused conservative grass roots, Sarah Palin's influence is now unparalleled. She was the one who popularized the notion that Democrats advocated "death panels" as part of their healthcare plan, a charge that helped ignite conservative opposition to reform. More recently, in a special congressional election in upstate New York, Palin's endorsement of Doug Hoffman, an unknown, far-right third-party candidate, helped force a popular moderate Republican politician, Dede Scozzafava, from the race.