by Al Cross A widely circulated, chain e-mail about the health-reform bill passed by a House committee “contains 48 claims. Twenty-six of them are false and the rest mostly misleading. Only four are true,” the independent, nonpartisan analysts at FactCheck.org say in their latest post. Among the lies: A government committee will decide what treatments [...]
Posted on August 31st, 2009 by DebbySKoz
Filed under: Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
by Debra Kozikowski It’s been widely reported that Senator Edward M. Kennedy had made his peace with dying and was ready to be reunited with his beloved brothers, whose lives were cut short in a series of tragedies no family should have to bear. In a conversation with Vice President Joe Biden earlier this week, Senator Kennedy’s wife of seventeen years, Victoria Reggie [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2009 by DebbySKoz
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by Matt L. Barron This is the bumper sticker so many of us in Massachusetts have affixed to our cars in one incarnation or another over the better part of my fifty years on this earth. I cast my first vote for Ted Kennedy in 1976—he has always been my senator and his passing got me to thinking [...]
Posted on August 27th, 2009 by DebbySKoz
Filed under: Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Obama, US Congress | 3 Comments »
Paul Krugman tells it the way he sees it … again.
Posted on August 25th, 2009 by DebbySKoz
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by Debra Kozikowski Here’s a good one. CNN radio reports, among other bad news, that the health care reform debate could be making us sick. Adding another layer of stress to a stressful time, what with an uncertain economy marked by job losses, high prices at the pump and a shaky Wall Street, there is added tension in [...]
Posted on August 24th, 2009 by DebbySKoz
Filed under: Agriculture, Buy Local, Farms & Farmers, Food, Healthcare Reform, Nutrition, Rural Urban Partnerships, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
From Paul Krugman.
Posted on August 21st, 2009 by DebbySKoz
Filed under: Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
By Debra Kozikowski When push came to shove the left cried uncle, and to make matters just that much worse for some folks, they tried to save face by saying a public option in the health care package wasn’t “essential” to reforming health insurance coverage. It wasn’t the hard right that took the heart of [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2009 by DebbySKoz
Filed under: Election 2010, Healthcare Reform, Obama, US Congress | 5 Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson I beg forgiveness of William Shakespeare’s spirit for my blatant misuse of his immortal phrase “the winter of our discontent.” I’m not unique in this misconstruction. Here’s the whole quote. Bear with me here. This won’t take long. Shakespeare’s “Richard The Third” begins with Richard, who will himself become king one [...]
Posted on August 18th, 2009 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Healthcare Reform, Kitchen gardens, Obama | 5 Comments »
by Al Cross The word “unique” is not supposed to take modifiers of degree, but every stop on the Obama administration’s Rural Tour is arguably unique, and the latest one was probably the most unique — or, to be grammatically correct, the one that was most undoubtedly unique. It was in rural Alaska, off the [...]
Posted on August 17th, 2009 by DebbySKoz
Filed under: Cabinet, Rural Issues, Rural Life, USDA, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
By Matt L. Barron For most of us with working vehicles, a weekly trip to a favorite roadside stand for some fresh-picked sweet corn and vine-ripened tomatoes is part of the summer routine. But what if you live in one of America’s big cities, far from a local farm? Even the best public transportation systems [...]
Posted on August 14th, 2009 by DebbySKoz
Filed under: Agriculture, Buy Local, Community Gardens, Farms & Farmers, Food, Nutrition, Rural Urban Partnerships | No Comments »
