Vaccine exemption bill exempt from common sense
“Frankly, I think this hearkens back [to] Nazi Germany.” The above quote came from West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair, R-Berkeley, as he spoke in favor of the bill allowing COVID vaccine ...
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What else is in the Build Back Better Act?
by Michael Hiltzik EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is continued from “People talk about the cost of that big federal bill ...,” published yesterday, Oct. 18. Child care and families The Build Back Better Act would significantly expand government assistance to families with ...
People talk about the cost of that big federal bill but don’t know what’s in it
by Michael Hiltzik The most glaring flaw in media coverage of Washington is that it focuses heavily on process and seldom on substance. That’s certainly been the case with coverage of the Build Back Better Act, the comprehensive reform package now being dickered over on Capitol ...
W.Va. shouldn’t deny transgender people health care
Last week, Lambda Legal added two more plaintiffs to its lawsuit, Fain v. Crouch, challenging West Virginia’s new law denying gender-confirming health care for transgender individuals who have government-issued insurance. The two of the three original plaintiffs are transgender men (the ...
What Manchin gets right — and wrong — about $3.5T bill
In his op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Joe Manchin proclaimed that he won’t vote for a reconciliation package carrying a $3.5 trillion price tag.* *What he actually says, if you can make it around the paywall, is he won’t vote for it “without greater clarity about why ...
Masks, mandates & individual choices
Sign-wielders on Patteson Drive. Angry parents at school board meetings. “Karens” berating store employees, as seen on social media or in real life. They all have something in common: Cries of “individual choice.” And they’re right: They do have a choice. However, the people ...