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The recent auction of Dorothy's ruby slippers made me think about the search for home, and how so many of us from around the world have found it here.

State's health care community sounds the alarm about efforts to swiftly wring savings from program that funds long-term care, mental health and other essential services.

Not inputs, nor outputs, but impact. Are people better off because of these investments?

The measles vaccine has prevented about 57 million deaths in the last 20 years -- that's nothing to sneeze at.

The executives will make their moves, but where does the current moral calculus leave a nation regarding capital punishment?

Their status is once again uncertain.

If our 19th-century forebears were to return and examine the criminal justice system of today, they would probably be appalled by our long sentences and the lack of opportunity for mercy.

Thanks, Angela, for a bit of holiday inspiration.

Editorial cartoon: John Darkow on a return to normalcy

But the potential won't be realized without strong bipartisan support from state leaders.