State budget fight pits people against ideology
The Democratic budget blueprint makes a statement that Maine can’t cut its way to prosperity.
LePage’s bad mood shouldn’t set anyone’s wage
LePage says he feels like a priest or nun. I don’t know any clergy who hold back on tips.
Fight over health care just getting started
Imagine: 24 million people without health insurance wasn’t enough pain and suffering.
The scary, insidious, accidental effectiveness of Paul LePage
He operates with such blatant disregard for the truth, facts and procedural norms that it’s easy to believe he’s capable of just about anything to get what he wants.
Republicans’ ‘shift and shaft’ scheme jeopardizes health coverage. Sad!
The Republican health care plan punishes low-income people, people with disabilities, the elderly and children. All to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy.
Dream of Obamacare repeal turns to nightmare
Republicans will have to decide, quickly and publicly, whether they think everyone deserves access to health care or only some people do.
Don’t let Trump distract, divide his opposition
It’s clear that divisions remain, but Democrats need to leave them behind.
Trip to Israel: A big story in a small place
Israel is small. Really small. At it’s narrowest, the country is only nine miles wide, and it’s just slightly larger than New Jersey. Jerusalem is 45 miles from Amman, Jordan. Haifa is about 80 miles from Beirut and 90 miles to Damascus. The population is about 8.2 million people. The population of the West Bank […]
Trip to Israel: Living in the shadow of death
Near the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, the bus stops double as bomb shelters, reinforced concrete caves built to shield people from rockets and mortars and protect them from deadly shrapnel. Every new house is required to have a reinforced room to protect the inhabitants from an attack. Once the voice over the early warning […]
Trip to Israel: The holy city of Jerusalem
Tomes have been written about Jerusalem and the fact that it is home to holy sites for the world’s three great monotheistic religions. The Temple Mount is the third holiest site in Islam and home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. By tradition, the Dome of the Rock is believed to […]
