Letter to the Editor for April 12, 2019

Green New Deal is a start to addressing U.S. issues

I see two pivotal issues confronting our dear country. We face extreme wealth inequality that has produced widespread poverty (over 40 percent of working families in Baker County cannot make ends meet) and a withering infrastructure. We face global warming that has gone from scientific prediction to in-your-face disasters. Additionally, we are afflicted by a dysfunctional, topsy-turvy health insurance “system.”

There are rational, straightforward answers to these major challenges, but they have been largely papered over. Anti-government dogma and unlimited campaign contributions have stifled our Constitution’s promise to “promote the […]

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