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To the editor: We can all agree that in a civilized society, access to quality healthcare should be a right. Far more complicated is determining how to pay for it.
Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders hold a lighted sign at a Democratic Party rally in Grand Prairie, Texas, in 2017. To the editor: Plaudits to Jonah Goldberg for both his timely take on the GOP's generation gap and his reference to an iconic folk-rock song predating his birth.
Even today, as we close in on full employment, pockets of weak labor demand persist. n Since we started keeping such data in the 1970s, the unemployment rate for African Americans has been twice that of whites.
Scene: recent hearings in two different state district courtrooms to schedule long-delayed trials of dozens of bikers from motorcycle groups swept up in the wildly indiscriminate 2015 Twin Peaks dragnet. Mood: something between Christmas and the Second Coming.
In recent days, 20 Republican congressmen have signed a discharge petition aimed at forcing legislation out of committee and onto the floor, the better to resolve the standoff over DACA - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals - and the Dreamers. Those are the undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country as youngsters, have grown up and gone to school here, and hope to become citizens.
NORBERT RICHTER, an engineer whose business is the construction of ultra-light turbine helicopters, has a knack for getting innovative contraptions off the ground. That skill may prove handy as he attempts to gain altitude for a different sort of vehicle: a scheme to disrupt the shield of incumbency that makes it almost impossible to dislodge a sitting member of Congress.
Not even Jeb Bradley could fix this one. He was powerless to bridge the gap between House and Senate negotiators on his bill dealing with how to pay for the care of animals seized following... The U.S. Supreme Court has opened up a new front in the long-running gambling wars.
Not even Jeb Bradley could fix this one. He was powerless to bridge the gap between House and Senate negotiators on his bill dealing with how to pay for the care of animals seized following... Not even Jeb Bradley could fix this one.
But Grimm, who got a boost from Anthony Scaramucci, the short-lived communications director for President Donald Trump, at a fundraiser on Saturday, also sounds like he has his sights set on the general election to come. And in that battle, Grimm is setting himself up as the person who can stop the 11th Congressional District from being swamped by a "radical left agenda" pursued by Democrats.
Here in Australia, "Question Time" has long been one of my favorite exercises of parliamentary democracy. The prime minister and government ministers appear before other elected members in support of their policies, while the opposition asks pointed and sometimes funny questions in an effort to belittle those policies.
On Friday , the Trump administration is filing a request to block abortion-providing facilities from receiving federal family planning funding through the federal grant program. The nation's leading abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, is expected to take a massive hit as this is one of the larger subsidies they receive among the $500 million in federal funding per year .
I first met Erin Herbig when she was heading up the first Maine Fare under Maine Farmland Trust. We worked closely together that summer to align my organization, the Belfast Farmers' Market, with this huge weekend-long event she was producing.
Foster City residents face a choice in whether they want to pay to fund a new levee required by federal and regional officials or face an increase in flood insurance for those with federally backed mortgages. The cost, per average homeowner is about $270 a year, whereas flood insurance would be in the thousands per year.
The Senate confirmed Gina Haspel on Thursday as the first female director of the CIA following a difficult nomination process that reopened an emotional debate about brutal interrogation techniques in one of the darkest chapters in the spy agency's history. The 54-45 vote split both parties, with six Democrats joining most Republicans in support.
Throughout the nation, Americans are taking a stand against cruel puppy mills by supporting efforts to prohibit puppy mill operators from selling dogs in pet stores. Recently, Maryland became the second state in the nation to ban the sale of puppy mill puppies in pet stores when Gov. Larry Hogan signed bipartisan legislation to protect dogs and the state's consumers.
ON MAY 19, THOSE WHO were "lucky" enough to prefile to become a delegate to the 6th District Republican Convention, will not only vote for the next nominee to replace Congressman Goodlatte, but they will also be voting for the next chair of the 6th District Republican Committee. If you want someone who will not be biased toward any candidate and manipulate a federal election for that candidate, vote for Jennifer M. Brown.