Washington Sometimes there is just no shame, when there should at least be silence. The medical establishment represented by the American Hospital Association indicated that it is going to fight aggressively against a requirement that non-profit hospitals provide a set and accountable level of charity care as part of the new health care legislative reform. …
Author: wade
Marsh before Hurricane Season
Slidell My son and I are hardly scientists, but we know something about the marsh and bayous between Lake Pontchartrain and the West Pearl River. Until Katrina we had a fishing camp on two acres a mile or so as a crow would fly from the Lake. Now we have two acres of mainly marsh …
What’s up in Kansas?
New Orleans Thomas Frank wrote a well received political book a couple of years ago entitled, What’s the Matter with Kansas?, and the answer seems to be: a lot! More evidence was in the headlines and story from Salina, Kansas this week when the ex-head of the Republican Party in that state, Kris Kobach, announced …