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Rural Public Broadcasting

The government funding for public broadcasting is relatively small in the scheme of things. In total an ~ 1.1 billion.  ~$535 million appropriated for fiscal year 2026 under the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024, and another $535 million under the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act of 2025. It does play a role getting information out to […]

What Causes Food Deserts in Parts of the US?

Been following this issue for a while. Pulled this from an Atlantic article from December 2024. In the 1980s, consumers did more than half of their grocery shopping at independent stores. This included both single-location businesses and small, locally owned chains. This changed in the 1980s. Convinced tough antitrust enforcement was holding back American business, […]

Facts About Immigrants and Medicaid

My opinion? Excluding portions of the population living in the United States from healthcare does not make good logistics or sense for that matter. Even if they are illegal, students, or just touring. Sickly people endanger the rest of the nation. The nation will end up spending more by reducing healthcare to them. It has […]

Immigration and Deportation

The focus of this and past presidencies has been on immigration legal and illegal. The influx of unestablished legal immigrants has been higher than normal. Past presidents have talked to it and taken action. It was not till this presidency that a more personal look by this president has taken the forefront. He deficiently does […]

“We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both.”

Louis Brandeis says it all. Or did he? by Steve Roth Originally posted at Wealth Economics I do so love diligent lifelong scholars (“experts,” in today’s deprecatory usage) sharing with us their excruciatingly detailed research into areas in which I have a deeply curious interest, but where I lack the wherewithal or energy to properly […]

July 16, 2024 Commentary

There is much going on in the United States with a rogue president who clearly is abusing his role as the president to instill greater control over the nation beyond the courts and the legislature as determined in the constitution. Sometime in the not-so-distant future and if Tr__p does not stop the nation will come […]

The R-Words . . . Reasonable or Racial?

If the nation keeps booting people out of the US or locking them up, it will run out of Labor. The costs of which will increase significantly. With a citizen replacement ratio of 1.6 in 2025 as compared to 2.01 in 2006, shortages of Labor are not that distant. Then watch Labor wages increase and […]

The War on Women

Excellent commentary by Joyce Vance. As a subscriber, I am happy I can present this piece on Angry Bear. We do not have many women commenting at Angry Bear. Please if there was never a opportunity for you to comment, maybe you can now. “The War on Women,” Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance When we […]