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June is the month that tests my schedule and patience as we await the start of wheat harvest. For years my replies to a variety of invitations and requests have always defaulted to something to the effect of, “That’s June, so if we’re harvesting wheat we won’t be able to.”
June is the one month out of the entire year where I fully exercise being noncommittal.
Just before President Trump pushed her out at the behest of his corporate donors, former Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Lina Khan released a damning report about the most rapacious and anti-competitive actors in the entire healthcare system: pharmacy benefit managers.
These middlemen in the drug supply chain don't discover new medicines. They don't manufacture them. They don't even physically dispense most prescriptions. Yet they rake in tens of billions of dollars each year by driving up costs for everyone else -- especially patients battling cancer, HIV, heart disease, and autoimmune conditions.
I assumed you would want your newspaper to fairly report a story. Your recent article misrepresented those who took part in the largest protest against a president in our nation’s history, No Kings Day.
You said our group supported “open borders and men dressed as women competing against biological women.” No one supports wide open borders, and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t support border security. I don’t think I know of one single person in our crowd who gave much thought to the issues of transgenders that day. I didn’t see you interviewing anyone.
I just returned from Starley’s fantastic brunch that looked equal, if not better, than the one my son was served at his friend’s home in France recently. What’s for supper?
Down to serious business now.
I appreciate Sheryl Hall writing in to share why she believes in the No More Kings movement. It’s important that people who disagree politically can share their different views. It is healthy to be able to respond and react, and I encourage anyone who disagrees with a column to feel free to write a letter to the editor.
There are some areas where I would like to clarify some of Ms.Hall’s statements.
Hall states my “article misrepresented” those who took part in the protest.
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