Articles written by Alan Fahnestock

Alan Fahnestock|Nov 8, 2017

I hope everybody saw Dapper Dan Newhouse’s latest screed, wherein he pats himself on the back for a number of things, not least supporting the new Republican bill to renew CHIP. Give me a break. CHIP never should have lapsed: kids don’t quit getting sick just because the governing party has their collective hair on fire to hand tax cuts to rich folks. That’s just one more indication of the rot we’ve come to expect. But trying to re-up CHIP with a bill that’s loaded with poison pills, then trying to fasten the blame for failure on people wh...