by Jill Richardson | Apr 11, 2017 | Blog
Imagine a parent who starves his children and fails to do any number of basic parental duties, but then buys one of his kids a healthy meal. Well, that’s good. Great, really. But it’s not enough. An act of goodness directed at one child cannot feed an entire starving...
by Sarah Chaisson-Warner | Apr 11, 2017 | Blog
It’s time to ramp up our resistance to the Trump-Ryan agenda on health care. We scored our biggest legislative victory so far on March 24, when Speaker Paul Ryan called off his bid to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), because he didn't have the votes. This was an...
by Mark Trahant | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog
No coal here. The Native Village of Tyonek, Alaska, celebrated the suspension of a nearby coal project by PacRim Coal. The tribal community is located some 45 miles west of Anchorage. PacRim estimated the project to include some 242 million tons of coal. A...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog
How many registered nurses fantasize about living forever? Probably not many. How many math teachers daydream about immortality? Probably not many there either. Traffic cops? Bartenders? Civil engineers? All likely the same story. We have no evidence that any economic...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog
At any other time, this (fill in the blank) would be the scandal of the decade. Now, with Donald Trump as president, we call it Monday. Thursday evening, Trump attacked Syria, a sovereign country, with 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles. This act of war was done without...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog
Making America Great Again; every time a U.S. company hires a hundred people, or even a dozen, President Trump's support network blasts out the message that this is what he's doing. Now they're crowing that unemployment fell to 4.5 percent in March, even though many...
