When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was named as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Calley Means, a former Republican lobbyist, expressed a common misconception: "The public health expert class has given us a public health collapse. We are on the verge of, at best, a health crisis and, at worst, a ...
Thank you to the APS Board for finally bringing some accountability and common sense back to our schools. First, thank you for hiring Goodrich — a reliable, local business that actually gets the job done. It’s about time we supported people who live, work, and invest in our own community, ...
The economy can be both very complex and very simple. In simplified terms, consider two buckets. One is the public sector, and one is the private sector. As more money flows into the bucket of the public sector and fills it up, the private sector bucket does not fill up. However, the private ...
As a tax paying member of this community, I’m deeply alarmed by the relentless attacks on our public schools and on programs like Medicaid that help children thrive. Right now, Republicans in Congress are slashing school funding, censoring curriculum, and gutting Medicaid and SNAP programs ...
In May, my son and I gathered with hundreds of our neighbors at a community meeting to protest a pickleball and tennis complex planned for our local park. We're not against the sports. My son likes to play tennis with his dad. What we objected to was clearing trees and utilizing green space for ...
President Donald Trump argued last week that as a result of the federal enhancement of police work in Washington, D.C., the city has gone in four days from being the most dangerous in America to being the safest. He cited no evidence but relied apparently on his own observations and anecdotal ...