| Feb 5, 2014 | Environment / HealthRemember when it looked like the Republican Party could do nothing but stamp its feet and shout about the Affordable Care Act’s shortcomings without coming up with any alternatives? OK, there was former Sen. Jim DeMint’s suggestion last summer that having...
| Feb 4, 2014 | Food / FarmingYou think bipartisan support is rare? Not when there’s cuts to poor people in there. The Farm Bill again cuts nutrition assistance And barely got any liberal resistance. More subsidies to support the Big Farmer Gets a signature from Barack...
| Feb 2, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyWhatdya know? Chris Christie knew Cars wouldn’t go, They wouldn’t get through. Ex-pal Wildstein used his Authority, ‘Cuz vengeance, it seems, was Christie’s priority.
| Jan 29, 2014 | Environment / HealthIf President Barack Obama wants to make action on climate change a legacy of his administration, he better do a lot more in the next three years than his lackluster performance in this year’s State of the Union address. Instead of outlining an approach to build...
| | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Sam Pizzigati and I explain how President Obama fell short in his State of the Union address on economic justice and energy and Mary Ann Hitt weighs in on West Virginia’s water-contamination crisis. On our blog, Karen Dolan sums up...