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Sheriff pushing budget boost
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsAs Palm Beach County faces another budget shortfall, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw proposes boosting his department costs by $4 million. Bradshaw on Tuesday released a $471 million budget proposal. That would just be about a 1 percent increase from this year,........Tags: Property Tax, Ric Bradshaw, Budgets and Budgeting
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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: George W. Bush, Social Security, Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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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: Heart Disease, Diseases and Illnesses, Health Organizations, Michael Bloomberg, Flu
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A health plan prescribed by 'Doc' Bowen
Instead of Obamacare, still so contentious and with all the pieces not yet in place, we could have had Bowencare, with the key piece put in place on July 1, 1988, by Ronald Reagan. It would be named for Dr. Otis R. Bowen, about whom there were many...
Tags: AIDS, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Medicare, Parties and Movements
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Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?
It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...
Tags: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Tylenol (drug), Prices, Hospitals and Clinics, Medicare
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Labor has helped L.A., but tweaks are still needed
I think it's fair to say that the men sitting across the table from me Monday afternoon were not terribly happy with my recent work. Bob Schoonover, president of Service Employees International Union, Local 721, and Art Sweatman, a shop steward and tree...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Antonio Villaraigosa, Public Officials, Public Employees
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Karanbir Gill: Deregulation would hurt state's trauma centers
In large states such as Florida, it is essential to carefully develop a statewide trauma care network that ensures our citizens have access to timely, life-saving care delivered by highly-trained specialists. Over the past 30 years, Florida has built a...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, National Government, Florida Legislature, Litigation and Regulation, Government
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The trainwreck called Obamacare
Paul Greenberg"I just see a huge trainwreck coming down." That's not a quote from one of our old editorials or from any of the other critics of what has become known as Obamacare. It's a quote from one of its key backers, one of its designers, one of its advocates...Tags: Kathleen Sebelius, Small Businesses, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Business, U.S. Senate
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Postmodern prudes
Victor Davis HansonMore than 500 people were murdered in Chicago last year. Yet Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel still found time to berate the fast food franchise Chick-fil-A for not sharing "Chicago values" -- apparently because its founder does not approve of gay marriage....Tags: Paula Broadwell, Judges, Sex Crimes, John Allen, Religion and Belief
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New Cultural Plan a nice wish list, but city should focus on must-haves
Give the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events this much: It listened to what Chicagoans said they wanted in a Cultural Plan and wrote it down. And then wrote some more. And more. Released Monday, the Cultural Plan's 48 pages...
Tags: Conservation, Daniel Burnham, DuSable Museum of African-American History, Culture, Chicago Loop
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A lazy budget
WASHINGTON -- There is something profoundly timid about President Obama's proposed $3.778 trillion budget for 2014. Stripped of boasts about "investments" for the future and a responsible "balance" between deficit reduction and economic growth, the budget...
Tags: Social Security, Consumer Confidence, Interior Policy, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control
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Utter arrogance of Obamacare
With (the president) promising that every American will be covered by health insurance, it's fair to ask if you and I should be required to pay for fools who put themselves in the hospital by taking stupid chances. Like motorcycle riders who suffer...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Hillary Clinton, Crime, Law and Justice, AIDS, Barack Obama
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