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Ethics cesspool: No wonder the state Legislature is a rogue’s gallery
Start with more detailed reporting. The public needs to know how much money lawmakers are getting paid from businesses and organizations.
AG Kane files for divorce from husband of 14 years
This has already been a tough year for the 48-year-old [Kathleen] Kane.
One possible health benefit from a U of P / LGH hook up
One of the prime goals of the Affordable Care Act is to reduce the long standing problem of the spread of disease. In this respect, hospitals are very dangerous places.
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.
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…
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…
“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…
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…
Hungarian Prosecutors ask foreign ministry to lift U. S. Embassy Chargé d’affaires immunity from prosecution
Like a bad episode from the Twilight Zone, Hungarian prosecutors today asked the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade to lift US Embassy Chargé d’affaires André Goodfriend’s immunity from prosecution so that he can be tried in Hungary for defamation.