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Ten for Thursday: Spitzer goes literary
Spin CycleSorry for the late start today: The MTA unveils its plan today to get more money from employers, fares and bridge tolls to close a deficit. Eliot Spitzer begins his new career as a columnist for Slate with a......Tags: Crimes, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Rahm Emanuel , Long Island, Eliot Spitzer
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Vernon Takes Steps To Handle Possible Revenue Shortage
— The town is facing a projected $423,000 revenue shortage, but officials have trimmed costs to account for it, Mayor Jason McCoy said. The town has not gone over budget, but may face a shortfall because of projected decreases of $156,000 in...Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Vehicles, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Employees, Private Health Care
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In this together
Take a number. If you want to lean on state or local officials, to try to convince them to do their budgetary magic without pulling your pet cause out of the hat, the line forms to the right. It's a long one, as every cause and constituency tries to...Tags: Civil and Public Service, Retirement, Medical Services, Employees, Private Health Care
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Insurers group proposed centralized health care
Washington BureauWASHINGTON—Sharpening the emerging debate over how to reshape the country's health-care system, the major group representing insurers unveiled a proposal this week for covering all Americans in a more centralized insurance market. The plan...Tags: Barack Obama, Max Baucus, Insurance, Medical Specialization, Government
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Ill. to borrow $1.4 billion to pay bills
Associated Press WriterThe state wants to borrow up to $1.4 billion to help pay unpaid bills, even as the federal government approved sending more than $775 million a year over the next five years to help care for Medicaid patients. The short-term borrowing means businesses...Tags: Rod Blagojevich, John O'Connor, Medicaid, Health Insurance, State Budgets
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Michigan Senate waiting on governor's budget plan
Associated Press WriterThe Michigan Legislature's top Republican said Thursday his chamber won't vote on other issues until Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm submits an executive order to start dealing with a brewing state budget problem. Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop,...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Government Debt, Michigan, Laws, Upper House
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Marie Cocco: Don't be timid in proposals to fix health care
Here is a number easily understood by even the math-phobic: Every 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate leads to another 1.1 million Americans becoming uninsured -- and causes still another million more children and adults to become eligible for...Tags: Barack Obama, Employees, Insurance, Political Systems, Medical Specialization
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Letters to the editor
Put education first Re “Bid to oust Brewer falls apart,” Dec. 3 It was disheartening to read about the bureaucratic machinations surrounding the failed effort to remove Los Angeles Unified Supt. David L. Brewer. My disappointment was...Tags: Healthcare Policies, Patrick O'Brien, Human Rights, Explosions, Maryland
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Feds OK $775 million a year to Ill. for Medicaid
The federal government has approved sending more than $775 million a year over the next five years to Illinois hospitals and other medical providers to help care for Medicaid patients. Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced Thursday that the federal Centers for...Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Illinois
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AG settles Medicaid lawsuit with Urbana clinic
Associated Press WriterThe Illinois attorney general's office said Thursday it has reached a tentative settlement with one of two Champaign County clinics that allegedly denied primary care to new patients covered by Medicaid. The medical clinics agreed to funnel Medicaid...Tags: Justice System, Trials, Lawyers, Personal Income, Lisa Madigan
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Astatula ponders future after sharp cutbacks by largest employer
Sentinel Staff WriterASTATULA Vickie McCormick and her husband, Michael, are not looking forward to Dec. 22. That's the day Florida Made Door Co. will begin suspending operations at its plant next to the couple's My Hero Sub Shop and lay off up to 80 employees. The...Tags: Tampa, Homes, Employees, Lake County (Florida), Economic Policy
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Henry 'Jim' Koellein
Henry "Jim" Koellein Jr., former state commissioner of labor and industry and a highly regarded labor activist, died Sunday of a massive heart attack at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 82. Mr. Koellein, who was called "Jim" all of his...Tags: William Donald Schaefer, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Maryland, Employees, Football
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