Wait, there was a witness who spoke to Trump? Last I'd heard, Trump just completely fabricated the whole thing. Yes, it's known that an indictment is likely due to the fact that the grand jury offered for him to testify (standard practice at that point in the procedure), but Trump pulled that whole "this Tuesday" thing completely out of his ass, whipped up the media, and congressional Republicans took the bait.

Well no, but you also can't expect people to sit there and take it when vast swaths of our society are unable to afford access to medical care?

Also there have been laws recently which overhaul if and how medical billing can affect your credit report. If a medical collection does end up on your credit report, it must be completely removed and your credit score completely restored as soon as it's paid off. So there's basically no reason to ever pay any medical bill unless it's in collections. My strategy is to ignore any and all medical bills and use my credit report as a "master medical bill" and only pay those in collections (and even then, only the ones which are "fair and square," so to speak).

> going forward, use “taxpayer funded” if you prize honesty and accuracy

You can't truly expect the general population to integrate conservative talking points into their everyday speech. It's widely understood that "free" in the context of government services does indeed refer to taxpayer-funded. This whole "it's not free it's taxpayer-funded" thing isn't the "gotcha" that you think it is.

Honestly the teachers could use this as well.

This is still achievable, given that voting is a secret ballot. There's no way of telling if the 142,000 people telling him to resign did indeed vote for him--in practice it would just have to be 142,000 registered voters from his district, which is achievable (if, for example, the Nassau County GOP called his bluff and organized an "official" "election"/pull).

But that's beside the point--even if that happened, he still wouldn't resign.

Channel this anger you're feeling towards hospital administrators and write them a letter or something demanding that they put an end to the strike by negotiating in good faith with the nurses. You're absolutely right: It's disgusting that hospital administration would put people's health at risk like this.

Because it's trying to draw conclusions by comparing one anecdote to another anecdote. The scaffolded review assignment shown in the article is one data point. This person's kid's class is another data point. Two data points, in two completely different contexts, amongst the millions of assignments being completed in thousands of classrooms throughout the city. It's an incredibly misleading and useless way to try to understand an issue as complex and nuanced as education.

I think to a certain degree you're right, but on the other hand, what choice do we have? We all know that drivers come nowhere close to covering the cost of the infrastructure and services they use. Every single proposal to fix that is met with petulant whining, whether it be paid parking permits, congestion pricing, tolls, higher gas taxes, etc. So we need to get a little creative in getting these people to cover the cost of the infrastructure and services they use, and parking tickets are part of that solution.