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Opinion

Price controls don’t put America first

Cabinet Editorials

President Trump is reportedly planning his most ambitious executive order yet. It would require pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs to Medicare and Medicaid for the same prices they charge in other developed countries, where medicines are often far cheaper. That might sound like the sort ...

Is it socialism?

Cabinet Letters

The big Republican attack on Democrats is that they are socialists. It’s all over Fox News, echoed by Republican candidates, Breitbart, Donald Trump, radio talk show hosts, etc. The basic definition of socialism is: an economic system advocating that the means of making, moving, and trading ...

Pancreas Education Day

Cabinet Letters

By now you’ve most likely seen on the news the very public battle Alex Trebek is facing with pancreatic cancer. Unfortunately, not as newsworthy, but still a reality, are people in NH diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, pancreatitis or diseases of the pancreas. November is Pancreatic Cancer ...

Oversight of the presidency

Cabinet Letters

I saw Donald Trump’s television ad – can’t call it a campaign ad, though his voice-over “approves of this ad.” He wants his followers to see the impeachment proceedings as “Democrats wanting to undo the last election.” Well, no. That’s not it. The Constitution gives our ...

COLA not cutting it for seniors

Cabinet Editorials

Most Social Security recipients are rightly disappointed in the 1.6 percent cost-of-living increase that they will be receiving in 2020. As in most years of the recent past, they will complain that the “yardstick” for determining if they will receive an increase – and if so, how much ...

Feltes: Why I’m running for governor

Cabinet Editorials

My amazing wife Erin and I live on Hope Avenue in the South End with our two wonderful daughters, Iris and Josie, our two dogs, Franklin and Roosevelt, and, like a lot of working families, a whole bunch of student loan debt. Right out of law school I had the honor of working as a legal aid ...