(Community Matters) Politico Playbook: “Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System,” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D ., chair of medical ethics and health policy at UPenn; White House special adviser on health reform from ’09 to ’11; son of a pediatrician; older brother to Rahm and Ari (published this week by PublicAffairs): “In the short term the ACA has been a political disaster for President Obama and the Democrats. … And it has left the Obama administration in a perpetually defensive stance, depleted of the political capital needed to achieve progress in other important policy areas such as immigration and the federal budget. …
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It's about community, entrepreneurs, politics, art . . and sometimes just silly fun . . . a slightly gay blog.Eugene Sepulveda
Love big West Texas skies, Austin and my husband, Dr. Steven Robert Tomlinson, with whom I’ve spent the last 18 years – thirteen years since we were married on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. Then, married again at St. James Episcopal Church in Austin, TX on June 27, 2015.
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- RT @ByMikeBaker: I have spent the past few days researching the training of Uvalde officers, including the tactics they were expected to us… 5 hours ago
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- RT @JoaquinCastrotx: This morning, I met with the @FBI about its investigation into the Uvalde shooting. Here’s what I learned: 22 hours ago
- Amer students shd walkout, protest our failure as "responsible" adults...our failure to keep kids safe, guns the le… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- RT @clockwerks: what the @yankees and @RaysBaseball are doing with their twitter accounts tonight is incredible, would love to know the sto… 1 day ago
- Tonight, 7:30, an interfaith vigil for the victims of the Uvalde mass murder - iAct & St James Episcopal at St Jam… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- @HCookAustin Well, except for the fact of the direct correlation between gun laws and gun violence around the world . . . 1 day ago
- RT @Ernie_Zuniga: Joe Garcia, the husband of Irma Garcia, one of two teachers shot and killed in Uvalde, TX on Tuesday, has reportedly suff… 1 day ago
- RT @statesman: Beto O'Rourke: "Somebody needs to stand up for the children of this state or they will continue to be killed just like they… 2 days ago
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- RT @culturatisummit: We are devastated by the news of the school shooting in Uvalde. Today, we encourage our Culturati members and the wide… 2 days ago
- In case you are searching for a way to help . . . Steven and I are contributing to one of the verified GoFundMe cam… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago
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- RT @BarackObama: Across the country, parents are putting their children to bed, reading stories, singing lullabies—and in the back of their… 3 days ago
- @tplohetski @statesman Geez. Everyone got along on Fri and Sat nites at the uvalde dance hall when we were growing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 days ago
- @cltomlinson I guess his position could be genuine, but he sounds too smart for that. Imagine it’s self interest. 3 days ago
- @kyledcheney We’d barely be able to call a quorum in the House, not to mention a couple to three senators. 3 days ago
- RT @culturatisummit: "Progress worth celebrating, but it still means that just 44 out of 500 companies, or 8.8%, are women-led." via @_emma… 4 days ago
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- @matthewjdowd same people saying Ds have moved way left, that Ds were the "kind" party but now the party of divisio… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago
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