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Fighting for single-payer healthcare: Dr. Milstein vs. the naked emperor

When it comes to the current health care system here in America, Dr. Jerrold Milstein relishes repeating his mantra, “The emperor has no clothes!” A strong supporter of the Affordable Health Care Act, or “ObamaCare” as right-wing conservatives derisively call it, Dr. Milstein is convinced that “once people realize they’ll be getting better care…resistance will […]

Public schools win internationally: part 1

Conservatives are eager to destroy public education, to complete their plan to dismantle the New Deal and to further enrich the 1%.  Their favorite stratagem is to blame public schools for failures of education in poor communities. But let’s look at the facts. Internationally, do the nations with the best school systems have public schools […]

King County Bus Riders, Brace Yourselves

By Jennifer Langston What will losing 17 percent of transit service feel like? Oran Viriyincy, flickr In blocking a vote on a transportation package before the Washington State Legislature adjourned this weekend, Senate Republicans led by Rodney Tom utterly failed anyone who rides the bus—or drives through or around—King County. There was plenty not to […]