November 11, 2015
University of Buffalo 11/10/15 by Christine Vidal The University at Buffalo Law School’s Buffalo Human Rights Center will sponsor a panel discussion on the growing people’s movement for a universal health care system that is equitably financed and provides health care as a public good, not a commodity, from 4:30-6 …
December 17, 2014
MyEasternShoreMD.com December 14, 2014 by Liza Field Food connects. Person to person, people to planet. Everyone eats, no matter of what political persuasion, religion, race or old codified dispute. Food offers one thing even squabbling humans can exchange agreeably. That’s borderline miraculous, in these contentious times. “No politics or religion,” …
May 13, 2013
By Vicki Shabo. Published on May 10, 2013 Last month, I wrote about a disturbing trend: States are passing “preemption” laws that prohibit a growing number of cities and counties from adopting their own paid sick days standards. Sadly, these misguided attacks on local democracy have been spreading rapidly, as legislators put the interests of …
June 4, 2010
Business Insurance, June 2, 2010 WASHINGTON—The Obama administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to review a 2008 appeals court ruling that upheld San Francisco’s controversial health care spending law. The San Francisco law, which took effect in 2008, requires companies with at least 100 employees to spend at …