Tag: popular vote
Elect president by popular vote: Maine joins movement to give Electoral...
"The bill ensures that every vote, in every state, will matter in every presidential election."
Unheralded national popular vote push to remedy ‘elitist’ Electoral College
You’d think today’s majority, rebuffed twice in 16 years with two wingnut, minority presidents, would rage against the non-democratic, distortion-laden Electoral College. You’d think that hapless, vision-less Democrats would crusade against what put dim Dubya, then crazed, scatter-gun Trump in power.
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
F is for Failure and Fascism
On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.
Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building
A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.