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S.F. officials blast Kaiser for hiking rates for public workers
SAN FRANCISCO — Officials who oversee the healthcare plans of San Francisco public employees and their families excoriated Kaiser executives Thursday for failing to adequately explain a proposed rate increase, but ultimately voted to back it as...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Policies, Government, Politics, Public Employees
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Seminole mulls ban on hiring smokers
Smokers may be passed over for jobs in Seminole County schools. It's just in the earliest stages of discussion now. But the School Board is tossing around the idea of establishing a policy that says if you smoke, you don't get the job. What drove the...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Seminole County, Prices, Health Insurance
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Federal workers get health and fitness programs
For three hours each work week, Bert Rice walks laps around Burba Lake at Fort Meade — part of a mission by the federal government to build a healthier workforce. Rice, 76, a retired Army colonel and former Anne Arundel County councilman working as...Tags: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Environmental Issues, Health and Safety at School, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces
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Letters to the Editor - June 14
Post-stadium strategy: Go with the arts To the editor: Although the multiuse stadium project is appearing less and less likely, Hagerstown should still continue to push forward with regard to a particular cultural direction: the arts. Given that...Tags: Career and Workplace, Music, Demographics, Science and Technology, Technology
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S.F. grudgingly backs Kaiser rate hike for public workers
SAN FRANCISCO — Officials who oversee the healthcare plans that cover San Francisco public employees this week excoriated Kaiser executives for failing to adequately explain a proposed rate increase but ultimately voted to back it. The city's...Tags: Healthcare Policies, Politics, Government, Public Employees, Health and Safety at Work
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Freeman offers public option
HealthAs a Democrat in a Republican-controlled legislature being led by a Republican governor, state Rep. Bob Freeman can file any bill he wants. Getting them into law is a whole 'nother thing. But that didn't stop the reliably liberal Freeman, representing the... -
Taxes up in Meyersdale, steady in Salisbury
Daily American Staff Writer, @daalyssacMeyersdale Area School District and Salisbury-Elk Lick School District adopted final budgets during meetings Wednesday. Taxpayers in Meyersdale will be paying more in taxes while Salisbury officials were able to keep the tax rate there steady....Tags: Budgets and Budgeting
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California insurance chief: Keep Anthem out of small-biz exchange
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, in an unusual move, wants Anthem Blue Cross barred from the state's new health exchange for small businesses because of the company's excessive rate hikes in the past. Thursday, Jones asked Covered...
Tags: Healthcare Laws, Business, Small Businesses, Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Safety at Work
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RPT-EXCLUSIVE-Wal-Mart's everyday hiring strategy: Add more temps
Reuters(Repeats to widen distribution) By Dhanya Skariachan and Jessica Wohl June 13 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc has in recent months been only hiring temporary workers at many of its U.S. stores, the first time the world's largest retailer has done so...Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Markets, Employment, Unemployment, Health and Safety at Work
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Robert Fogel dies at 86; economic historian won Nobel Prize
Robert Fogel, the University of Chicago economic historian awarded a Nobel Prize for his data-driven reconsiderations of how railways and slavery influenced U.S. economic history, has died. He was 86. Fogel died Tuesday at Manor Care Health Services...Tags: Cornell University, Awards and Prizes, Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School, Entertainment Events
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Health care act will spur competition among insurers
I work for a mid-size firm Baltimore, and our health insurance costs will rise only modestly in 2013. However, in talking to friends at local companies, their health insurers are raising rates exorbitantly in anticipation of the state health exchanges...Tags: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Richard Nixon, U.S. Congress, Health Insurance
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Griffin: Seminole needs to use tax hike for $25M in school improvements
SANFORD — Superintendent Walt Griffin has a long list of school needs that he says justifies an additional 1-mill tax on Seminole County property, but he has not convinced the School Board. Replacing leaky roofs and failing air-conditioning...
Tags: Casselberry, Career and Workplace, Advanced Training, Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning
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