from our president
This monthly letter to subscribers from Consumers Union President Jim Guest highlights the critical consumer issues behind our current reports.

Onward, upward 12/09
We do it the CU way 11/09
The heat is on 10/09
Another misuse of your credit record 9/09
When not to buy it 7/09
Never buy from a traveling salesman 6/09
They say, you say 5/09
Web sites that work 3/09
My Top 10 list 2/09
Safe enough? No. 1/09
Reform school 12/08
Taking your pulse 11/08
Notice a change? 10/08
Home truths: Know before you buy 9/08
A long, hard look at high prices 8/08
The road to better health care 7/08
Helping to make drugs and food safer for the world 6/08
Making household products safer 5/08
A safety feature worth seeking out 4/08
News organization diversity 3/08
Seen the ad? Check out the facts 2/08
Got an older TV? Read this 1/08
Getting the lead out of our lives 12/07
Health-care tales of woe 11/07
And now, the fees you hate 10/07
Raise your voice on health care 9/07
Don't believe the hype 8/07
Fees: Eight we hate 7/07
Drug-safety laws 6/07
Too little money to do their jobs 6/07
Learning from our mistake 5/07
Driving through the highs and lows 4/07
By the numbers 3/07
Safety concerns 1/07
Judging wine with another scale 12/06
Medicine costs 11/06
A small matter of great concern 10/06
Sleepless in … well, everywhere 9/06
Ratings abuse: Thanks for Alert 8/06
Working for change: Three stories 7/06
Let's stop skirting privacy issues 6/06
Time Warner Cable agrees to stop CR ads 5/06
How to right retailing wrongs 5/06
You're in our driver's seat 4/06
Your medical data, in bits & bytes 3/06
Vocation, vocation, vocation 2/06
Poor excuses for cell-phone service 1/06
Bargaining for lower drug prices 12/05
CR's new health-information site 10/05
Beware the spy on your hard drive 9/05
Grassroots advocacy is still in style 8/05
Being green just got a lot easier 7/05
The fight against identity theft 6/05
Those three little words 5/05
Charting a safer future in autos 4/05
Tough words for telecom companies 3/05
Pay less for prescription drugs 2/05
Check this out: You won rights 1/05
Your all-consuming passions 12/04
On the trail of unsafe products 11/04
Drug trials show but no one tells 10/04
A united front in the war on spam 9/04
Double, double oil and trouble 8/04
What to do on your summer break 7/04
Truth in labeling: What the words mean 6/04
Can't do it without you 5/04
The real deal 4/04
A really busy year 2/04
A well-rounded education 1/04
Take a Number 12/03
Web-site roulette 11/03
Suzuki vs. CU: What you could lose 9/03
What works against e-mail spam 8/03
We've made some changes 7/03
Staying healthy 6/03
What’s bugging you? 5/03
Eeny, meeny, miney, motion compensation 3/03
Cell hell 2/03
Label of contents 1/03