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IID, union agree on terms
Staff WriterThe nearly 1,000 rank-and-file Imperial Irrigation District employees can expect a $900 lump-sum payment and 2 percent salary increase. The terms are part of a memorandum of understanding between the IID and the International Brotherhood of Electrical...Tags: Board of Directors
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Less than half of state road fund money went for construction
Less than half of the money that the state has spent from its road fund in the last two years actually went to pay for direct construction costs, according to a report issued Tuesday. The majority of payments in fiscal 2012 and 2011 went to cover...
Tags: Pat Quinn, Illinois Governor, Science and Technology, Accounting and Auditing, Construction
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Doctoring in a family way
Jennifer was one of my first patients as a new doctor, and she came to see me about an unintended pregnancy. A single mom to a rambunctious 5-year-old girl, Jennifer was struggling economically and battling depression. We talked about the options...
Tags: Social Issues, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Treatments, Birth Control
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CEOs' bottom states are actually the top
Big business and anti-tax groups have been making hay out of a story in CEO Magazine that ranked Maryland 41st in business climate. But look closely: a lot of the things that CEO Magazine says are holding states back are actually things you would want for...Tags: Productivity, Corporate Officers, Newspaper and Magazine, Business Enterprises, Periodicals
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McDonald's looks at tinkering with aspects of Dollar Menu
Faced with rising costs and unrelenting pressure to improve its performance, McDonald's is tinkering with aspects of its vaunted Dollar Menu, testing a price increase for its McDouble sandwich and add-on options like bacon on the McChicken sandwich for an...
Tags: Sandwiches, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Bacon, Medical Procedures and Tests, McDonald's
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Obama's budget puts the onus on Ryan
WASHINGTON — When it comes to deficit reduction, President Barack Obama may have correctly taken the measure of Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and U.S. corporate leaders; that's a reason why any deficit deal is more remote than ever. Two and a...Tags: Government Health Care, Republican Party, Alan Greenspan, Politics, John Boehner
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LETTER: Keep Parents On HUSKY Plan
Though there are some signs that the economy is improving, once again the needs of the poor are being ignored. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has proposed to eliminate HUSKY health insurance for parents whose incomes fall between 133% and 185% of the federal...Tags: Dannel P. Malloy , Health Insurance, Private Health Care, Family
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Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD
If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for just about everything from mosquitoes (West Nile carriers) to hygiene (wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing...
Tags: Media Industry, Measles, Preventative Medicine, FBI, HIV
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Mayo: Hypocritical Fla. House gets cheap health insurance
Sun SentinelFlorida House, hypocrisy is thy name. At least when it comes to the health care debate. Today's outrage story of the day comes courtesy of Tia Mitchell of the Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee bureau, who reports that Florida House members...Tags: Government Health Care, Politics, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance
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HealthyCT Is First Connecticut Insurer To File Rate Requests For Public Exchange
The Hartford CourantThe first Connecticut health insurer to file proposed rates for health plans that will be sold on a public exchange, HealthyCT Inc. is requesting monthly rates ranging from $156 to $1,501 per person for small-group plans, according to regulatory...Tags: Government Health Care, Insurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance
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High health care costs are killing America
The health care industry — doctors, hospitals, medical facilities and pharmaceuticals — will do this country in and only the rich will survive ("Costs vary for same treatment," May 9). It does not make sense for hospitals to charge varying...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests
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Labor official brings minimum-wage push to Baltimore
The fight over the federal minimum wage is coming to Baltimore. The head of the U.S. Department of Labor plans to swing into town Tuesday to talk to low-wage workers about how they make — or don't make — ends meet. Seth D. Harris, the agency'...
Tags: Social Issues, Breads, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
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|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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|Story| Hartford Courant
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|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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|Story| Hartford Courant
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