Medicaid is slashed by $800 billion, and Medicare and Social Security are threatened. Medicaid funds nursing home care and funding for more affordable health insurance coverage, when not covered by your employer.…
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Trump imposes 25 percent new tariffs on our nearest neighbors and allies, Canada and Mexico. Really?? Canada has helped us fight fires, fight wars, and died with us, worked with us on immigration…and Trump punishes them, and US!…
This week, we remember the horror of January 6, 2021, the day an angry mob surged into our nation’s Capitol, smashing windows, breaking down doors, brutalizing the police who were trying to guard our sacred Capitol, resulting in nine deaths.…
Congressman: What’s bad for democracy is you undermining our nearly 250-year-old justice system, which was designed to hold people accountable for their crimes, to show that there is a price to pay for crime.…
Can you imagine a defendant in your own county, berating the local judges and staff and their families after a grand jury of ordinary citizens had indicted him for stealing from you, fraudulently selling you worthless goods, or for abusing your daughter?…
The gross domestic product has grown so much that 2023 was one of the “boomiest” years on record. And it continues to defy expectations. At the start of this year, economists had been forecasting annualized growth in the first quarter of 1 percent; that prediction has since doubled.…
Letter from Sherwood Guernsey ‘What You Do Matters’ Much has been said about Joe Biden’s age, and I’m sure that Trump and your Congressional representative will continue to bring it up and insult him…even though Trump constantly gets things mixed up and can’t remember dates and names. I do not write for sympathy, because none is needed. True, seniors forget some dates, forget some names. But so what? That’s true of all seniors (and many younger folks!). What is also…
We all heard Trump rage about “American carnage” in his 2017 inaugural address—he said there was a wave of violence sweeping our cities. He lied.…