USA TODAY: …The Denver Post reports the study by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health found about 1 out of 8 Colorado residents older than 12 had used marijuana in the past month. Only Rhode Island topped Colorado in the percentage of residents who reported using pot as often, according to the study. […]
Month: December 2014
Are Lancaster General Health and U of P following lead of Allegheny Health Network and Johns Hopkins?
The new 10-year master collaboration agreement, which was unveiled Monday, aims to expand patient options for affordable health care, use group purchasing and other initiatives to reduce costs, enable AHN to improve care by tapping the resources of Johns Hopkins’ Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, and let both organizations team up on new electronic record platforms and various research efforts.
Corbett leaves governorship with unsettled legacy
PHILLY.COM / AP: …Corbett cut hundreds of millions of dollars from social service programs, including the elimination of $200 monthly cash payments to poor adults unable to work and subsidized health insurance for low-income adults… Meanwhile, Corbett championed the business community. He cut business taxes every year, reducing payments by hundreds of millions of dollars […]
Patients’ Costs Skyrocket; Specialists’ Incomes Soar
Ms. Little’s seemingly minor medical problem — she had the least dangerous form of skin cancer — racked up big bills because it involved three doctors from specialties that are among the highest compensated in medicine, and it was done on the grounds of a hospital. Many specialists have become particularly adept at the business of medicine by becoming more entrepreneurial, protecting their turf through aggressive lobbying by their medical societies, and most of all, increasing revenues by offering new procedures — or doing more of lucrative ones…
The Importance Of The December 1914 Christmas Truce
In December 1914, an amazing outbreak of peace, though brief, occurred when as many as 100,000 of the million troops, or ten percent, stationed along the 500 mile Western Front in World War I, mutually, and spontaneously, stopped fighting for at least 24-36 hours, December 24-26.
Bigger venues, but John Fry sells the same old ‘snake oil’
The speaker added this would be done without the usual gentrification but rather by bringing jobs to those neighborhoods and allowing current occupants to move to newer and better housing. Wow! Being born and raised in Philadelphia before moving to Lancaster, we were especially eager to learn how this was to be accomplished.
Ban all lawmaker ‘gifts’
No, state Sen. Lloyd Smucker is right on the money with his planned bill to ban nearly all freebies to public officials as well as state and local government employees.
Oil’s Swift Fall Raises Fortunes of U.S. Abroad
he price plunge may also influence Iran’s deliberations over whether to agree to a deal on its nuclear program with the West; force the oil-rich nations of the Middle East to reassess their role in managing global supply; and give a boost to the economies of the biggest oil-consuming nations, notably the United States and China…
No, North Korea Didn’t Hack Sony
DAILY BEAST COLUMN: The news that the satirical movie—which revolves around a plot to murder Kim Jong-Un—will have a Christmas Day release as planned, will prompt renewed scrutiny of whether, as the US authorities have officially claimed, the cyber attack on Sony really was the work of an elite group of North Korean government hackers. […]
“Top 10 Marijuana Victories of 2014”
2014 was either the best or second-best year in 20 years, depending on how you weigh the legalization victories in Colorado and Washington in 2012.
Restored Forests Breathe Life Into Efforts Against Climate Change
In the battle to limit the risks of climate change, it has been clear for decades that focusing on the world’s immense tropical forests — saving the ones that are left, and perhaps letting new ones grow — is the single most promising near-term strategy…
Free speech? Not at PSU, group says
FIRE officials said the language is so encompassing that a single off-color joke or comment could rise to the level of sexual harassment if anyone finds it inappropriate…
Turnpike considers plans to replace tunnels in Somerset County
PITTSBURGH POST – GAZETTE: The turnpike commission is considering six options for abandoning the 6,070-foot-long tunnels, longest on the turnpike mainline. Three would involve building new tunnels and three would carve an open highway through the mountain either to the north or south of the existing tunnels. Preliminary cost estimates for the “cut” options range […]
ISIS Shoots Down Jet From U.S.-Led Coalition, Syrian Monitors Say
If confirmed, the strike and capture would signal the harshest blow yet to the coalition and could affect the resolve of the Arab nations that have joined the United States in its air campaign to weaken the Islamic State — also known as ISIS or ISIL — in Iraq and Syria…