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Highmark, UPMC expect to dominate exchange
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewThe two biggest health care organizations in Western Pennsylvania are likely to dominate the virtual marketplace where individual health insurance buyers will begin shopping for coverage later this year. Highmark and UPMC, which are competing head to...Tags: Aetna Inc., Health Insurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, National Government, Cigna Corporation
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Hospital profit margins decline
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewProfit margins at hospitals across the Pittsburgh region are falling as they face cuts in government reimbursements and declining patient volume. The average margin on hospital operations last year was 5 percent, down from 6.1 percent the year before,...Tags: Health Insurance, Hospitals and Clinics, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania)
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BRIEF: Tribune-Review owner to sell stake in KQV-AM 1410
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewTribune-Review owner and publisher Richard Scaife has agreed to sell his majority interest in KQV-AM 1410 to family members of Pittsburgh's all-news station's late general manager Robert Dickey Sr. Scaife's attorney, Yale Gutnick, said Scaife decided to...Tags: Federal Communications Commission
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OPINION: Liquor proposal ripped in hearing
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewThousands of people would lose their jobs and consumers would have less selection and pay higher prices for beer under liquor privatization proposals, an association for beer distributors told a Senate panel on Tuesday. Officials from the Malt...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Lebanon, Google Inc., Consumers, Mike Turzai
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Small lakes offer good fishing opportunities
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewYou wouldn't necessarily want to fish Filbert Pond, any of the three Deer Lakes or Marshall Lake if your goal is to catch lots of big fish. But all three can provide varying levels of sport. Biologists from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission...Tags: Lakes and Ponds, Science and Technology, Biology, Lifestyle and Leisure, Fayette County
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Pitt coach Chryst holds players to high standards on, off field
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewAMELIA ISLAND, Fla. -- When Pitt players are arrested, break team rules or get frustrated enough to leave school, coach Paul Chryst's emotions boil over into anger, disappointment and confusion. Some of those feelings are directed at the student-...Tags: Prosecution, Atlantic Coast Conference, College Sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Incubator shows off fledgling firms
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewMatthew Pegula had a dream job, working as the director of technology at a major Pittsburgh tech company. "The only way I would leave that job would be to do my own thing, which I did," said Pegula, who with a friend, Dimitry Bentsionov, co-founded tech...Tags: New Products, Weddings, Arts and Culture, Auto Trends, Arts
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Jolie's surgery a model decision
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewActress Angelina Jolie told the world on Tuesday that she prefers life over breasts, announcing a voluntary double mastectomy that dropped her inherited cancer risk from 87 percent to 5 percent. Women across Western Pennsylvania are way ahead of her....Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Breast Cancer, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Hospitals and Clinics, Angelina Jolie
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Jim Thorpe ruling portends disturbing questions about Ira Hayes
There cannot be anything less dignified than a bunch of lawyers fighting over the corpse of a hero who deserves to be honored and to rest in peace. Today, the battle is over Jim Thorpe. Tomorrow, maybe it will be over Ira Hayes. Thorpe won 1912...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Lifestyle and Leisure, Whitehall, Entertainment Events, Fines
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Bethlehem mayoral candidates each raise more than $55,000
Democrats J. William Reynolds and Robert Donchez raised nearly the same amount of money this year for the Bethlehem mayoral contest, but Donchez's early fundraising efforts from last year were too large to surpass. Donchez had $167,600 to spend on the...Tags: Allentown, Pen Argyl, Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Primaries
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Valley News Dispatch wins big in Golden Quill awards
The Valley News-Dispatch, Tarentum, Pa.Valley News Dispatch staff won five Golden Quill Awards on Monday from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, the most of any newspaper in its circulation category. Nine VND articles and three photographs published in 2012 were finalists in the club'...Tags: Media Industry, Arts and Culture, The Pennsylvania State University, Arts, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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BRIEF: Pittsburgh homeowners would see taxes decrease under new plan
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewPittsburgh Councilman Ricky Burgess introduced legislation on Tuesday to use $7.5 million in state funding available in 2015 to reduce taxes for about 14,000 homeowners. State law provides about $7.5 million annually for property tax relief, but the...
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