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GOP dealing with national illness
Bob Franken
Bob Franken is an Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist. - photo by File photo
Many Republican leaders are leery about having their name attached to the GOP’s replacement for Obamacare, a health care overhaul they have demonized since it was passed seven years ago. But they’re having a devilish time coming up with one of their own that doesn’t make things worse. It’s hard to blame them for preferring not to be identified with their American Health Care Act, which is the official title of their slapped-together replacement.
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Editor's Corner: Summer
Andrea Gutierrez new
In honor of the summer solstice (which was last Saturday, June 21st), here is a poem on the subject of the solstice and the invariable passage of time. Now if you’ll excuse me, I shall reapply my sunscreen for the third time today as I begin to water my mother’s plants in the backyard during this lovely record-breaking heat wave. As they say, blood is thicker than water...and Hawaiian Tropic.
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