One of the interesting things about the way politicians work is that once you have sent them an email, even one that was protesting a stand of theirs, they feel the need to add you to their email newsletter list. For this reason, I am always intrigued by the way…
I think I posted this once before over on Coffee Muses...But it says a lot so let's spread it around some more...
At least 69 people have become violently ill — 34 of them hospitalized — after eating uncooked Nestlé’s Toll House cookie dough. At least nine of those victims suffered kidney failure, as a result of a virulent form of E. coli. Nestlé USA has recalled more than 300,000 cases of…
Just more fuel for the reform fire... As health care reform moves forward, Congress must impose tighter regulation of companies that clearly are not doing enough to regulate themselves. Creating a public plan could also help restrain the worst practices, by providing competition and an alternative. A House oversight subcommittee…
Health care in 1960 was between you and your doctor. Just what conservatives say they want to preserve. Everyone had a doctor patient relationship...It was usually something you grew up with. And the uninsured office visit cost about $15...And almost all of America was uninsured.
This is the most important subject on the President's agenda. The economic crisis is important, but health care is the problem that is affecting everyone's lives... Nowhere else in the world is so much money spent with such poor results. On that point there is rare unanimity among Washington decision…
Is eating locally produced food a civic duty?The folks at Kitchen Gardeners International might not call it a duty, exactly. But the group -- one of the organizations whose efforts led to the planting of a kitchen garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. this spring -- argues that buying and eating…
This was to be the start of my last year at my former employment. A couple of years ago or so, I thought the 30th anniversary of Earth Day would be an auspicious time to start a new phase of my life...Then the knee jerk reaction to the economic picture…
