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It's A Gray Area: Government is meddling in health care
Since my last column about health care appeared in this space, the system has continued to gallop toward disaster. Today, under the federal government's "leadership," we often pay several times more in the United States for the same prescription drugs...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Navy, Insurance, Prescription Drugs
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Robin Kelly wins 2nd Congressional District seat
Following Tuesday's special election victory, Democrat Robin Kelly will start a new job in Congress as the least senior member of a House dominated by Republicans. That political reality is not lost on Kelly, who said her first task is to restore...
Tags: Alexi Giannoulias, Primaries, Barack Obama, Toni Preckwinkle, Personal Weapon Control
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Bolivia, angered by Kerry, says it is ejecting U.S. aid agency
This post has been updated. Please see the notes below for details. Bolivian President Evo Morales declared Wednesday he was expelling the U.S. Agency for International Development from the country, accusing the aid agency of conspiring against his...
Tags: John Kerry, Los Angeles Times, National Government, Politics, U.S. Embassy
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Richland hires Rick Schulte to be next superintendent
Tri-City HeraldRick Schulte, who has spent 20 years leading the Oak Harbor School District, has agreed to be the next superintendent for the Richland School District. Richland School Board members met in a closed-door executive session for nearly four hours Monday... -
Divorced couple reunite, plan new future together after accident
The Santa Fe New MexicanThe stress of modern-day life tore their marriage apart. Tragedy brought them back together. Now this Santa Fe couple and their daughters are working to rebuild their lives after an accident forced them to examine what's really important. Boy meets,...Tags: Coma, Colleges and Universities, The Happiest News!, State University of New York, Disasters and Accidents
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Red-hot Truckers collect win No. 16
Norwalk Reflector, OhioThe Norwalk baseball team made it three straight at All Pro Freight Stadium on Friday afternoon, winning its 12th straight game this spring with a 10-2 victory over Clyde. The win moves the state's eighth-ranked Div. I team to 16-2 overall. Clyde...Tags: Social Issues, Baseball, Sports
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S-C grad Dustin Bales on a mission in Uganda
The Sedalia Democrat, Sedalia, Mo.Dustin Bales plans to combine his love of humanitarian work and engineering during a two-year stint with the Peace Corps in Uganda. Bales, 24, a 2007 graduate of Smith-Cotton High School, arrived in the east African nation of 36 million this week, where...Tags: Uganda, Science and Technology, Water Supply, Engineering, Trips and Vacations
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South Berwick woman receives Red Cross award
Foster's Daily Democrat, Dover, N.H.SOUTH BERWICK, Maine -- Amy Miller, a local writer and activist, has changed one little corner of the world. She recently received an American Red Cross of Maine award for her years advocating for a schoolhouse in Haiti. By spreading the word and...Tags: Music Industry, American Red Cross, Entertainment, Long Island, Haiti Earthquake (2010)
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Organization's ESOL, GED classes empower students, create family
Richmond Times-DispatchIt took Felix Chanquin less than six years to go from knowing no English to teaching an English for Speakers of Other Languages class twice a week at Ramsey Memorial United Methodist Church. His instructor, VCU student Kayla Berry, noticed his...Tags: Human Interest, Teaching and Learning, Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy, Students
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New CEO to lead change microloan non-profit
Inside the John Hancock Center, 13 floors up, Vicki Escarra gazes into a large camera lens. She eschews a word-for-word script, speaking instead from an outline that allows for more spontaneity. "You know, women are the largest untapped lever in the...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Travel, Small Businesses, ABC (tv network), River North
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In Theory: How ready for isolation are you?
Do you like ocean views, peace, quiet and solitude, and a captive congregation? Then the island of Tristan da Cunha could be perfect. It's advertising for a new parish priest — the previous incumbent left in 2010. There are some catches, though,...Tags: Caves and Caverns, Entertainment, Judaism, Landforms, Margaret Thatcher
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Nibbling, sipping part of Gramercy Mansion's 'Spring Has Sprung' tour
They came. They sniffed. They smiled. They sipped. They left — still smiling. That pretty much describes the behavior of guests at last weekend's Spring Has Sprung Tea and Garden Tour at Gramercy Mansion in Stevenson. The nearly 50...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Travel
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