by magix | Feb 27, 2025 | Politics
The idea that government should operate like a business is a longstanding myth, one that ignores the fundamental purpose of governance. But in recent years, a more dangerous variation of this myth has taken hold: the belief that billionaires, particularly tech...
by magix | Feb 27, 2025 | Politics
The Truth About Taxes: How Government Spending Reinvests in Communities How Taxes Work: Repatriating Wealth to Communities A significant imbalance exists in how federal tax dollars are collected and redistributed. States with larger urban economies, often blue states,...
by magix | Feb 26, 2025 | Politics
by Jesse Coburn ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has gained access to a U.S. Department of Housing and...
by magix | Feb 24, 2025 | Politics
In the depths of the Great Depression, as millions of Americans struggled to survive, a group of desperate men—the very soldiers who had fought and bled for their country—marched on Washington, D.C. They were the Bonus Army, World War I veterans demanding early...
by magix | Feb 20, 2025 | Politics
On February 12, 2025, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) reintroduced the National Right-to-Work Act in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, respectively. This legislation seeks to eliminate provisions in federal law that allow...
by magix | Feb 19, 2025 | Coos County, Politics
On January 6, 2021, Coos County Commissioner Rod Taylor stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, not as a defender of democracy, but as a participant in an attempted coup. A self-described devout Christian, Taylor prays regularly and professes to seek God’s guidance in...
