All across the country, nonprofit hospital chains are literally upping their game. These corporate entities receive special tax exemptions because they provide some free and reduced-cost medical services to poor families....
My life goals have never included making a lot of money… and I’ve certainly succeeded in that regard. Yet, I do consider myself rich. Not like the Wall Street “richie-rich,” but in the modest sense...
Nearly all Americans agree that Congress has become a sad joke – a blight of irritating gnats. How exciting, then, that a consultant to top Republican lawmakers has figured out how to make Congress better....
Some days I don’t know whether to rage in fury, weep quietly, or just throw up. This, however, is definitely a throw-up day. That’s because our US Secretary of State (a once-honorable position that advocated...
Bobby Kennedy, Jr. seemed on the right track when he launched his “Make America Healthy Again” campaign. Well, not the wacky-quacky part of that agenda, where he teeters off into the prickly thicket of medical...
At about 12 years of age, I began working for my father, loading bundles into the two delivery trucks used in his small business. This required that, first, I back the trucks down an alley...
In a 2006 documentary, I assailed Texas Republican lawmakers for ramming a brutish gerrymandering scheme into law, doing my report from a street sign in central Austin. That sign was the exact location the GOP...
Is Elon Musk OK? Just a few months ago, the prancing right-winger was constantly in the news. Today, though – Poof! – he has vanished from media coverage....
A gaggle of self-righteous multimillionaires are now in charge of America’s poverty agencies and policies, and they’ve been flaunting their deeply-held ignorance about poor families – almost none of whom they actually know....
Will Rogers joked that when thousands of rural Oklahomans fled the 1930s Dust Bowl and migrated to California: “It raised the intellectual level of both states.” Following that line of reasoning, it occurred to me...