Trump Coup Threats are a Diversion

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      I’ll admit when I find myself agreeing, almost point by point, with Ross Douthat, the conservative columnist for the New York Times, I have to put my head in my hands for a temperature check to make sure I’m still of sound mind and …

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Hospitals and Drug Companies Gone Wild

Health Care

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09192020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River       If you run a hospital, what do you do whether it’s a pandemic or wholesale panic? Jack up the prices seems to be the answer. A report hit the news from the Rand Corporation the other day about hospital prices.  On average they pile …

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Free Snowden?!?

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08172020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      President Trump wrong-footed me for a minute.  Trump said he was going to take a good look at whether to pardon Edward J. Snowden, the supersized intelligence leaker and former National Security contractor.  Trump claimed there was a division of opinion with some saying …

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