Why We Need ‘Pull-No-Punches Reporting’ That Holds Big Corporations And Moneyed Interests Accountable Wendell Potter, Founder of Tarbell.org (10/25/2017) Huffington Post Nataline Sarkisyan might be alive today had I not been such a team player when she was so sick. Had I not been so focused […]

Why “Centrists” Will Sink the Democrats, If They Haven’t Already The majority of registered Democratic voters view Sanders favorably and support single-payer healthcare. by Richard Eskow (Oct 24, 2017), OurFuture.org (Excerpts – Read complete article here.) No political ideology in modern American history has failed as consistently, […]

Earth to Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon! Nurses never give up and neither will millions of Californians who support Single Payer Healthcare. By now it’s no secret the California Senate passed S.B. 562 on June 1 but it was then blocked from moving forward in the […]

Why business should demand single-payer health care The San Diego Union Tribune (Online Oct 17, 2017) By Eric Leenson & Dan Geiger, co-founders, Business Alliance for a Healthy California The powerhouse of America’s economy — small business — is being sabotaged. Yes, sabotaged — not by […]

From Mad River Union Opinion, October 14, 2017 Kudos to Arcata City Council by Diane Ryerson I wish to recognize and thank Arcata City Council members for voting unanimously to authorize Mayor Ornelas to send a letter of support in concept for SB 562, The Healthy […]

Should Your Boss Dictate Your Family Planning Options? President Trump Thinks So. Georgeanne M. Usova, Washington Legislative Office & Brigitte Amiri, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project OCTOBER 6, 2017 | 4:00 PM (ACLU Blog)   President Donald Trump finally made it clear today. He believes business owners […]

The United States really is exceptional We spend more money per capita on guns, and health care, than any other country on Earth. This represents a failure of public policy of the highest order and a threat to our democracy. Let’s look at the numbers. Americans […]