Month: June 2012

Some of you may have a received a letter in your email today from the Department of Health & Human Services. The letter is probably specific to the state you live in. I live in Pennsylvania, so my letter has statistics for...

I think the Supreme Court just finished off the other half of their plan for a permanent Republican majority. The opinion was just released an hour ago and I am not an expert on labor law, but based on Sotomayor’s opinion...

Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced new grants for 219 local health centers. This comes after a May announcement that they had completed the construction of 67 new clinics out of the 200 they intend...

The Boston Globe’s Brian McGrory had a humorous, well-written column yesterday titled “Mayor Menino’s War On Cars”.  The immediate cause of the column was Boston’s announcement of a program to...

Barack Obama has been president for almost three and a half years and his administration has not had anything remotely resembling a scandal. That’s why the right is reduced to talking about his birth certificate. There...