Maine's Biggest Newspaper: Victory for Ranked Choice Voting Is Victory for ALL Voters

There is no question that what is happening in Maine with ranked choice voting is historic.

For the first time in US history, a statewide ballot will use ranked choice voting for governor, state legislature, US House, and US Senate.

For the second time in Maine history, voters successfully pushed a people's veto against the actions of the state legislature after politicians delayed the voter-approved ranked choice voting law and set it up for repeal.

Independents Lead Voters In Distrust of "The Deep State"

"A majority of the American public believe that the U.S. government engages in widespread monitoring of its own citizens and worry that the U.S. government could be invading their own privacy," says Monmouth University reporting the results of a recent survey it conducted of 803 U.S. adults earlier this month.

Well we should hope so! The U.S. government does engage in widespread monitoring of its own citizens.

Final Nail in the Coffin? VA Director in Hot Seat after IG Report

A scathing 158-page Inspector General’s report released last week detailed serious problems and “failed leadership” among the VA’s enormous health care system in general and at the Washington D.C. VA Medical Center specifically. This comes on the heels of another investigation that found that the VA director violated ethics policies, and eventually forced the retirement of David Shulkin’s chief of staff, Viveca Wright Simpson.

Walk Out or Walk Up: What Does the Science Say?

Gun control advocates have made it clear in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting that they think reflexively supporting the NRA position on gun safety blocks potential solutions for curtailing mass shootings in America. However, not many people are talking about how reflexively opposing the NRA may also block potential solutions for curtailing mass shootings in America.

Climate Change: How Two Opposing Viewpoints Found Common Ground

Editor's Note: The following article was written by Dr. Lynn S. Kahn and Cindy Peak, president of Cogent Technologies.

 

“That you and I differ in our ideas of the best form of government is well known to us both:  but we have differed as friends should do: respecting the purity of each other’s motives, and confining our difference of opinion to private conversation.”

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, July 17, 1791.

As Housing Crisis Deepens, A Next Generation Development Emerges

The new Lilac Hills Ranch is a transformational community that might just move the San Diego region to a new path that embraces growth.

Last year, at the peak of San Diego County’s housing emergency, housing production actually dropped, according to new data. Demand for new housing was at an all-time high and our homeless crisis was making national headlines, but builders were unable to pull permits.