You Can Recalculate Your ‘ObamaCare’ Health Insurance Premium Subsidy Beginning Today
April 1, 2021
More good news today! Extra premium subsidies approved as part of the recent stimulus bill will be available on the federal Affordable Care Act exchange starting on Thursday, April 1. Link to HealthCare.gov. CNN reports, New stimulus Obamacare subsidies start April 1: Current enrollees and those seeking Obamacare coverage can access the additional help for … Read more
Opening Day: For Love Of The Game
April 1, 2021
Baseball’s crazy COVID Season of cardboard cutout fans and recorded crowd noise is over. The Los Angeles Dodgers finally figured out how to get out of their own way and to win a World Championship in 2020. The long winter of our COVID-19 discontent is over. The “boys of summer” are back playing in front … Read more
President Biden Unveils the American Jobs Plan, saying this is the Time for “America to Win the Future”
March 31, 2021
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President Biden, in a speech in Pittsburgh today (March 31, 2021) formally unveiled the American Jobs Plan, the first of two proposals designed to modernize the nation’s infrastructure and make massive investments in human capital in all socio-economic sectors and demographics. It is the fulfillment of the Biden/Harris Build Back Better Plan. The need for … Read more
Go Old School: How To Get The For The People Act And The American Jobs Act Passed
March 31, 2021
Arizona’s Jeff Flake built his entire political career around getting rid of “earmarks.” Earmarks – funding for specific projects usually inserted into broad spending bills – were eliminated in 2011 by Republicans who had just recaptured the House riding a wave of Tea Party support. It was a stupid idea that made negotiations over major … Read more
The ‘Kochtopus’ Is Crapping Its Pants Over The For The People Act
March 31, 2021
New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer is an expert on the influence of “dark money” in our political system. She wrote the damn book on the influence of dark money. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. Mayer’s latest reporting is on the “Kochtopus,” the dark money radical … Read more
Democratic Legislator Mariano Samaniego Helped Build Early Tucson
March 31, 2021
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In this third installment of Democratic Heroes of Tucson, we focus on pioneer and Tucson developer Mariano Samaniego. He was a proponent of higher education and served as a member of the Board of Regents for the University of Arizona. An active Democrat, he also participated in politics, becoming the first Pima County Assessor and … Read more
President Joe Biden Begins To Diversify The Federal Judiciary
March 30, 2021
Above: U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Donald Trump and “Moscow Mitch” McConnell packed the federal courts with privileged white males, many of whom were corporate lawyers who had never even tried a case in court, let alone had any judicial experience, and were rated “unqualified” by the American Bar Association based upon their lack of … Read more
‘Consequences Culture’: Corporate Accountability For Failing To Defend Voting Rights
March 30, 2021
Among Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s many compelling words are these, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” The John Roberts Supreme Court, and then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney, have pointedly asserted that “corporations are people, my friend.” If so, corporations cannot be allowed to … Read more
