Equal Time With Martha Burk

College is now ridiculously expensive and students are in hock up to their eyebrows. President Biden wants to help -- but the Supremes have stopped him once. Rerun or success? 

Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share.  But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while rewarding their benefactors handsomely. 

Wake up and view the solar eclipse, last one 'til 2044. If you think really has no significance except crazy superstition, think again. Ancient voices from the past tell us it was a battle of the sexes.

Okaay,  April Fools Day is upon us, so let's have a little fun and nominate some of your national leaders for the biggest fool prize, and of course pick a winner.  And the nominees are . . .

The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "sisters" and even "wives" of invention.

It’s Women’s History month, and the feds are  banning government agencies from using salary history to set the pay of new hires. We need it for the private sector too.

Trump was President from 2016 To 2020, but he’s never won an election. He lost the nationwide popular vote in 2016, but still made it to the White House, due to a ridiculous voting system that ought to be abolished – the electoral college.

Females are without question the stars of Hollywood costume design, raking in Oscars in numbers that far outstrip the men. They get lots of well deserved recognition for what they do.  Except in one very important category . . .

It started with one thin dime, and a bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. City busses were segregated back then – whites in the front, Blacks in the back. On that fateful day, an African American woman named Rosa Parks paid her 10c fare, and took a seat in the Black section. 

In 1971, Congress created President's Day, to fall yearly between the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln on the 3rd Monday in February. Many have aspired to the office, but a significant group has never made it. 

I thought it would be simple. Just google Valentine’s Day and learn all about it – when and where it started and modern ways it’s celebrated around the world. Well, it worked – sort of. Seems there’s disagreement, disinformation, fantasy and frolic when it comes to researching the day of sweethearts.

February is Black History Month, officially recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976. It was about time. The 1960s had seen crucial economic gains for African Americans, even as the Black Freedom struggle faced assassinations and government suppression. 

In 2009 Lilly Ledbetter learned she had been paid 40% less than men in the same Goodyear Tire & Rubber job. It was a long slog, but she won, and working women today still benefit.

January 22 marks the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, when the court ruled abortion was legal under U.S. Constitution's guarantee of a right to privacy.  But it didn't last. Where are we now?

Minimum wages went up in a number of states on January 1. Pizza Hut is crying foul and punishing delivery drivers for the hike by firing them all. Are these workers getting rich at your expense? Nope, but somebody else is.

Men have an abundance of something women lack. It's starts with a "P" and can be easily remedied with one big change of habit.

Millions will wake up on New Year's Day hung over and unhappy. Here's a long term cure that doesn't mean giving up alcohol, and it's not "hair of the dog."

Christmas traditions around the world have different origins and different meanings -- not all Santa and elves, sometimes funny, many surprising.

Many great women snagged honors this year, from athletics to movies, science and more, and we lost a few great ones too.  But one gets our personal year end award.

The term Guns or Butter? goes back to World War I and protests over prioritizing the production of munitions over the production of dairy products. Nowadays it's unneeded war toys over needs of kids.