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Keep Your Title. It’s Too Expensive
Feb 26, 2019
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As voters wake up to the high cost of universal health care and what it may mean to their current coverage, it’s time to take a hard look at the plight of the superrich. They may not worry about healthcare but they have money woes, too. Americans may not realize it, but British
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Ocasio-Cortez: A Star Is Born
Feb 25, 2019
No doubt about it, a star is born. Recently, during a Congressional hearing, Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez “played a game,” with leaders of agencies that serve as government watchdogs. Common Cause was among them. The topic was about elected officials and the numb
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The Money Magic Trick Known As MMT
Feb 22, 2019
If voters are to understand the Democratic debates in the next election, they will need to understand a “new economics” that is beloved by the political left: Modern Monetary Theory, affectionately known as MMT. I think of it as Money Magic Trick. And it isn’t new. The the
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Ending Homelessness. Does San Francisco Have An Answer?
Feb 21, 2019
Like healthcare, homelessness is one of the intractable problems facing our society and it keeps growing. Local governments have the desire to solve the problem and, to some degree, they have the finances. What they don’t have is the trust of the client population, people who ha
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Demolition Or A Patch For Obamacare?
Feb 20, 2019
One institution noted for providing quality health care to the poor in this country is the criminal justice system. A recent footnote in The Week tells the story of a man who robbed a bank precisely because he needed urgent care. (“Medicare for All,” The Week, Feb/ 15. 2019, pg. 6
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Ruminations On Money And How To Keep It
Feb 19, 2019
I was wandering around the cosmetic section at Macy’s the other day, looking for an eyeliner. I’d just seen a test edition of a new series of “Just Read It” and noted I looked as pale as a curtain sheer. After 4 years of co-hosting the 10 minute book review program on YouT
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Seeing The Planet With Fresh Eyes
Feb 18, 2019
In the opening scene of the film, The Graduate, the operative word was “plastics.” Today, Dustin Hoffman is all grown up, though that scene remains a movie classic. For billionaire Jeremy Grantham the new word for this era is “topsoil.” Necessary to feed a burgeoning glo
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A Moveable Feast
Feb 15, 2019
Technology is changing the way we do business, but it is also changing our daily habits. Eating lunch is one example. In the good old days, if we were swamped with work, we might remain at our desks and nibble tuna fish sandwiches from a paper bag. Later, when food carts took
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What’s In A Label?
Feb 14, 2019
Recently, a reader referred me to an article by The New York Times columnist, David Leonhardt. In it, the writer cites Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post. She accuses reporters of being too centrist: “walking down the center line with a blindfold on.” According to he
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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.
Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015
Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.
Caroline has published five novels
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