Author: Jonathan P. Baird

The 30-year wait for a new facility represents a moral failure by the Legislature

Since the Republican Senate health care bill was released, there has been much discussion about its worst aspects. Is it the cutting 22 million people off health insurance? Is it doing away with pre-existing condition protections? Or is it the…

Social science research does not often make news. One exception was the study by two Princeton University researchers, Anna Case and Angus Deaton, that showed that middle-aged white Americans were dying younger. Suicide, alcoholism and drug overdoses are an increasing…

Democrats need to abandon Clinton’s brand of centrism and embrace the Sanders wing

It results in better outcomes for parents, children and businesses

Probably no word in political vocabulary is more misused than fascist. It is used all the time as an insult or as a way to tag a political opponent. It may just be used as a form of name-calling to…

Those who wish to restrict immigration are misinterpreting the 14th Amendment

Late president showed great courage and wisdom during Cuban missile crisis

Since the shootings at Aurora and Newtown, the irrationality, bordering on hysteria, of the pro-gun, no-regulation folks has been on display