To the editor: I keep seeing Elon Musk and Donald Trump in the news doing their best to dismantle the functions of the federal government by cutting and freezing funding for the services that everyday Americans rely on. These billionaires and the ruling class want a small government not ...

To the editor: In my letter published by The Independent on Wednesday (Feb. 19), I wrote “The Founders who wrote the U.S. Constitution had just liberated the Thirteen Colonies from the arbitrary acts of an unelected king and set up important checks on the chief executive to prevent a ...

To the editor: The US isn’t in debt because working-class people have Social Security and Medicare. It is because billionaires are not paying their fair share. When the MAGA party (growing because of Republican silence) proposes a budget that cuts: $230 billion from SNAP/nutrition programs, ...

To the editor: Have you ever considered what one trillion dollars might look like? It would be a stack of $100 bills that would cover a football field...end zone to end zone....to a depth of almost 8 feet high. When I graduated from High School in 1965 the Federal debt was $317 billion ...

To the editor: All government agencies, federal, state or local are supposed to be audited each year. So how do we end up with surprises from wasteful, if not outright illegal, spending by USAID? Should we expect more disgusting results from other government organizations? Once again though, ...

To the editor: Re: Real story behind 14th Amendment Feb. 11 He is referencing “rulings” on specific cases that resolve that case “specifically.” It has no, repeat, no lawful enforceable extension of authority beyond that specific case, although it can be “referenced” in ...