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Health Care Fire Storm

Niagara Falls Waking up after a long and productive training dialogue with Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada’s head organizer, for their talented lead organizers, I was reading The Globe and Mail. The comment page included a column by David Shribman, the executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette trying to explain the messy health care fireworks [...]

Massachusetts Immigrants Maybe. Poor, Doubtful

Baltimore A compromise of sorts seems to have been reached in Massachusetts to provide some form of health coverage for the 31,000 LEGAL immigrants in the state that had been bounced off the rolls as a cost savings measure.  The other victim of this cost cutting were the poor families whose automatic enrollment in the [...]

NOLa Town Hall Turning a Vote

Dauphin Island As vacation is slowly going out like the tide on this barrier island, dispatches from home included the mail and the Times-Picayune.  Flipping through them while watching Clive Owen and Naomi Watt in The International with the tribe, I was pleased to recognize two pictures on Friday’s Metro page of the paper with the [...]

Town Hall Ruckus

Washington The buzz before, after, and during every meeting I had in DC and the metro area at the end of the week focused on the ruckus and eruptions that had broken out in Tampa and around St. Louis at various town hall meetings for Democratic congressional representatives.  The numbers were large.  Crowds [...]

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