Editorials

For three months, the Affordable Care Act has been all about website and enrollment glitches, with the former often the cause of the latter. Make no mistake, these problems haven’t gone away just because the calendar turned to Jan. 1, 2014 — when Obamacare officially became the so-called law of the land. But the new year was supposed to bring a new phase of the law: people actually having health insurance.

The first roadside campaign signs that went up last month were a dead giveaway, but the incumbent judges and attorneys filing for judicial positions makes it official: It’s an election year.

David Silvaggio is a case study in the overreach of the war on drugs and the long overdue common sense that, ever so slowly, finally is changing the course of this costly, counterproductive conflict.