by Dave Patterson | Sep 26, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
It’s time for the annual face-off between fiscal conservatives and free-spending liberals. The specter of a government shutdown is again the progressive bugaboo. This year, the fight is over funding social justice and woke policies or programs that effectively defend...
by James Fite | Sep 30, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
The Senate voted to approve a continuing resolution (CR) Thursday afternoon. The stopgap funding keeps the government running until December 16, and passage through the upper chamber came just a day before the Friday, September 30 deadline, when the already...
by James Fite | Dec 3, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
It’s that time again: Funding for the federal government was set to run out Friday night, December 3 – and with it, the extension on the national debt limit. So once again, Congress put all other concerns aside to wrangle over the federal operating budget, lest the...
by James Fite | Sep 24, 2021 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
Written in 1947 by Merle Travis and made famous in the 50s by Tennessee Ernie Ford, the song “Sixteen Tons” evokes the hopelessness of one stuck in the vicious cycle of brutal labor and crushing debt of the pre-OSHA coal miner. Travis’ father, a coal miner himself,...