Affordable Care Act at 3: Holding Insurance Companies Accountable

By Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services Enacted three years ago, the health care law is making the insurance market work better for you by prohibiting some of the worst insurance industry practices that have kept affordable health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.
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Disabled Liberian Writes President Sirleaf

To The President of Liberia Her Excellence Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Executive Mansion Monrovia, Liberia C/O Dr. Edward B. McClain, Jr. Minister of State & Chief of Staff And/or Mr. Beyan Koto, NCD Dear Madam President,
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Where is the vision and Roadmap

By Isaac Vah Tukpah, Jr. Madam President, before your speech in Gbarnga, you paused to honor those who passed but neglected to mention the death of Morris Kromah, the young man who died on November 7, 2011 as a result of your Justice Minister and Director of Police giving the police the order to use deadly force to suppress or vanquish disgruntled Liberians expressing their objection to an election fraught…
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Blowing Whose Horn?

Rejoinder to Rosemarie James’ “Response to Cllr James Verdier (SIC), Acarous Gray am Leymah Gbowee in Defense of The President” By John H. T. Stewart I am moved to address myself to the issues raised in Rosemarie James article of October 20, 2012, titled, Response to Cllr. James Verdier, Acarous Gray and Leymah Gbowee In Defense Of The President” in which she claims to be an objective bystander moved by…
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Lone Stars Need Foreign Coach

By Ralph Geeplay Recently the Liberian national team suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Nigerian Super Eagles, with a 6-1 deficit in Calabar Nigeria, exposing Kaetu Smith who has described himself as a “good coach.” The Liberian national team, the Lone star, must hire a foreign coach, appoint Kaetu Smith as the under 23 care taker, and let him coach also in the domestic league.
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Liberia MUST END CONSTITUTIONAL RACISM

By Rima Merhi Founded in 1822 to free the black slaves of America, the Liberian constitution makes it mandatory for citizens of Liberia to be black of African descent. I am one of many white children born in Liberia to non-African parents and denied nationality and citizenship rights due to the color of my skin and roots.
Read more...President Sirleaf, Speaker Tyler, & President Pro Tempore Findley lead Hot-Sun Robbery

By Isaac Vah Tukpah, Jr., Liberian Patriot Somebody wake me up from this nightmare. The Legislature has just betrayed the public’s trust by passing an abhorrent budget bill and the president was complicit by signing it into law. The president, Legislature, and all officials who worked on this budget, especially the president’s surrogate, Minister Konneh and his budget officials must account for why such an egregious law was passed. While…
Read more...Liberia Needs Library Board

By Nathan N. Mulbah It is often said that food and exercise is to the body what reading is to the mind. A widely read individual is certainly a prepared figure ready to meet the challenges of life head-on. The concept of reading substantively is introduced to all students at an early stage in their academic sojourn.
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Flood Victims in Nigeria Need Our Help

By Paul I. Adujie Esq. The world is aware of the devastation of Nigeria and Nigerians by flood since the beginning of October.
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Liberian Journalists Still Hounded

By Ralph Geeplay Liberian journalists today are still facing the heavy hand of the law from the Liberian government in an era when press freedom is a heavily touted word in post war Liberia. The Press Union of Liberia (PUL) recently was forced to decry the manner in which a journalist was battered without due process, and incarcerated while another was languishing in jail.
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