Tag Archives: board

Now is the Time to Finally Get Rid of IPAB

Despite the recent display of bipartisanship between the Trump administration and Congressional Democratic leaders in regard to a new debt ceiling agreement, health care remains one of the most divisive issues on Capitol Hill. After multiple failed attempts to repeal…

Profs say US history guidelines would shortchange college-bound seniors

Neither Ben Franklin nor Martin Luther King Jr. make an appearance in the College Board’s AP US History guidelines. Dozens of historians have sent the influential College Board back to the drawing board, after determining that its U.S. history exam…

Advice for millennials: What I learned from my quarter-life crisis. (Yes, I had one)

I had a quarter-life crisis at 25. I was racked with anxiety, filled with fear, and totally confused about what I was going to do with my life. I felt like everything I’d visualized for my early adulthood wasn’t coming…

Cannabis moderately impairs driving

FILE: Nov. 8, 2012: Marijuana plants flourish under the lights at a grow house in Denver. (AP) With legalization of recreational cannabis now in three states and the District of Columbia, and with medical marijuana laws passed in 23 states,…

Flag flap: Indiana veteran, wife battle homeowners association over Old Glory

Bob Willits, 82, of Greenfield, Ind., insists he’ll fight a local homeowners Association over the American and POW/MIA flags outside his home. (FOX59.com) An elderly veteran and his wife say there’s “absolutely no way” the flagpole outside their Indiana home…

Reframing The Health Care Debate Is A Long-Term Political Must

With the Syria crisis entering a new phase, the focus among Washington policymakers has shifted to the debate over the debt ceiling and efforts by far-right Republicans to try and defund the Affordable Care Act. While it makes for good…

Keeton throws 5 TDs as Utah St. stomps Weber St. 70-6

LOGAN,Utah – Chuckie Keeton threw 19 of 25 for 249 yards and five touchdowns to lead Utah State to a 70-6 stomping of Weber State Saturday night. Keeton and the Aggies (2-1) had 587 yards in total offense and 49…

NSA Oversteps (Again)

Let me be clear, Edward Snowden will never be a hero or a patriot in my eyes. I will not argue that he is traitor, though he is certainly a criminal. And no amount of revelations as to how the…

Bulger parents speak of pain over Venables release

Denise Fergus stands with her husband Stuart as she speaks to the press after addressing a parole hearing for Jon Venables by video link from Crosby on May 22, 2013. The parents of the murdered two-year-old toddler expressed their anguish…

Is your retirement account safe from our government?

Is the same federal government that has Social Security headed for bankruptcy looking to mess with your 401(k) or IRA? Yes, according to a recent interview with Richard Cordray, the director of the so-called Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Cordray…