Campaign Finance… Visiting congress 30 Mar 201730 Mar 2017 Wednesday, March 29 was a spectacularly beautiful day and my wife Liz and I used it to tramp the halls of Congress as part of a group of about a dozen…
Campaign Finance A Sunday of activism 27 Mar 201727 Mar 2017 The weather was frightfully damp and cold Sunday, March 26, as my wife and I gathered with a small band of volunteers in Wilde Lake to go door to door urging…
Campaign Finance… Leading the Way for Election Reform 27 Mar 201727 Mar 2017 Council Bill 30, which will implement Howard County voters' wishes by creating a new small donation system for electing county council and executives, starting in 2022, is available for reading…
Uncategorized What’s next? 25 Mar 201727 Mar 2017 The stunning failure of President Trump and congressional Republicans to repeal and destroy the Affordable Care Act gives us another chance to move forward. Although the Republicans now say they…
Uncategorized Focus on the Gratitude 22 Mar 2017 There are so many things to be grateful for if I consciously force myself to sit and list them. It has only been three months but it feels like three…
Uncategorized Everything is related to the citizens election fund 21 Mar 201722 Mar 2017 As I sat Monday evening (2/20/2017) in the meeting room of the Central library in Columbia watching a documentary called "Fix It," about the advantages of the single payer system…
Health Care The GOP is bankrupt on health care 16 Mar 201719 Mar 2017 It's now clear just how bereft of ideas the Republicans are when it comes to health care. They campaigned for years on repealing the Affordable Care Act, but now that…
Health Care On health care, pay attention to Republicans’ actions, not words 15 Mar 2017 This Letter to the Editor/Opinion piece was published by the Washington Post, March 15, 2017. It galls me no end that House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and Trump administration…
Campaign Finance Question A in Howard County 14 Mar 201727 Apr 2017 Here is the content of Question A as it appeared on the ballot in November. Question A Amending the Howard County Charter to require the County Council to pass a…