New Orleans Incredibly after all of the promises of a better healthcare program, all the President wants now is a sale, no matter how shoddy the merchandise. This is the short con. Meeting with the so-called Freedom Caucus, he agreed to get rid of the Affordable Care Act’s “essential health benefits” guaranteed to everyone as …
Category: Ideas and Issues
The “Janes,” Heather Booth, and Underground Abortions
New Orleans I’ve known Heather Booth for a long time, probably forty years, as a respected colleague within the allied trades of our work. I first knew her as the director and one of the founders of the Midwest Academy, which was, and still is, a Chicago-based training center for organizers. Later in Washington she …
Gorsuch, Like Mother, Like Son?
New Orleans All heck seemed to be breaking loose in Washington. The FBI says they were investigating collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, and that there is no evidence that the Trump claim that Obama tapped his phones is true. In another hearing room, Neil Gorsuch, was being queried about a job as …