The Senate recently announced its two-year budget deal. It contains a healthcare provision that many are touting as a victory for American seniors. The reform aims to close the so-called "donut hole" coverage gap in the Medicare Part D drug benefit by shifting more of the program's costs to ...
Today, 19 children will die or receive emergency treatment for a gunshot wound in the U.S. And tomorrow, another 19 will. And then another 19 the next day. In fact, 91 percent of all children who die from firearms in high-income countries across the world come from the United States, and guns ...
Tom Cronin's wake was truly a "happening." It was scheduled to start at 5:30 and I told my friends who were going with me to The Barrel Room in downtown Fort Myers starting at 7 to hear the greatest jazz in town, that we'd leave The Shell Factory after an hour. But once we entered the big tent ...
In the wake of adversity, in the wake of tragedy, in the wake of the very worst that fate or man can throw our way, Americans have always paused and come together, if only briefly, to mourn those lost, to show respect for those sorely affected.Until now.The reaction of far too many in the ...
To the editor:The horrifying shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14 has brought home to us all the vulnerability of our children to gun violence. Cape Coral is no exception.I started running for Congress in Southwest Florida long before this incident but the ...
To the editor:Congressman Rooney's early response to the Parkland school massacre in which 17 students and staff lost their lives, was a sentiment-free meme on Facebook that parroted the overworked "thoughts and prayers" response by which the NRA crowd has responded to every gun tragedy since ...
