by Tim Wilkins | Jan 22, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Lies in the White House, Cancer in Our Neighborhoods Something is shaking on the cancer front that needs our full attention. The Trump administration, investigative journalist Sharon Lerner discovered, “is executing an old tobacco...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 21, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE David Goodner International Students Misled Into Human Trafficking Scam In Iowa Fifty-seven international students studying at a state technical college in Sioux City are being exploited in school and on the job after being lured to Iowa under false...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 17, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Mike Tipping Sen. Collins Lies About Accepting Opioid Money In a conversation with a constituent last week, U.S. Senator Susan Collins at first flatly denied she had accepted money from both the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 16, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Priscilla Robinson The Numbers We Need To End Our Overdose Crisis Governor Murphy just told us fewer New Jerseyans died last year from preventable overdoses than the year before. That’s good news. But we agree with Governor Murphy that 3,021 lives lost...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 15, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway America’s Do-Nothing Senate The Republican-controlled Senate has ignored around 400 bills the House passed this year. When these legislators refuse to legislate, they’re telling the American people that they couldn’t care less about urgent...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 14, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Richard Eskow What Corporate Democrats Really Mean When They Say ‘Purity Test’ “Purity test”? “Pragmatic progressive”? “Free stuff”? What are these politicians talking about? If you’re confused, you’re not alone. Certain words and phrases are routinely...
