This is why we need single-payor, universal health coverage. Businesses are not in the business of providing health care, and should not be carrying the burden. Even before obamacare, businesses were cutting hours, wages, and benefits to increase profits. Yet working people need health care in order to be able to conti...more

She doesn't need a fine, she just needs to pay the dog's vet bill; it's gonna be a whopper.

Neighborhood revitalization is great while it is individuals working on their own homes to make things nicer, and the prices aren't pushing long-time lower-income residents out. Once the "developers" move in, it's a different story: fancy up the facade, jack up the prices, and push folks who live there already out, not...more

Check out landsofamerica.com you can search all over the US by price, acreage, type of realty. The cheapest prices for the most land is in Texas south of Alpine, in the Terlingua area. Of course, there is no water or electricity, but catchment and solar make it all good ;-).  The biggest drawback is that once you find ...more

Lemme get this straight: adultery, sodomy between consenting adults, serial polygamy (multiple spouses and divorces), unwed parents, single parents, same sex parents- this is legal. A stable home with multiple parents who are all informed, consenting adults is a problem? I had two sets of parents/step-parents and shutt...more