Hard Times Hit Blacks, Latinos First and Worst

Posted by Search for "health insurance" on May 22nd, 2008
The economic slowdown, rising debt, gas and food prices, loss of jobs, and mounting foreclosures have hurt families across the board, but according to a new report Black and Latino families are "hit first and ...

Port Authority, union far apart in contract talks; strike a ‘real possibility’

Posted by Search for "health insurance" on May 22nd, 2008
The union representing 2,400 Port Authority bus-trolley operators, mechanics and other personnel is asking for a four-day work week based on 10-hour days, improved health care and higher pensions and wages.

‘Lean’ budget spares schools

Posted by Search for "health insurance" on May 22nd, 2008
State lawmakers approved a $7 billion spending plan Thursday that cuts most state agencies but also adds new money for K-12 education and health care and a small raise for state employees.

White House

Posted by Search for "health insurance" on May 22nd, 2008
Bush: Congress should pass clean war funding bill President Bush, standing alongside 17,000 paratroopers, urged Congress on Thursday to reach a consensus and pass a war funding bill that does not "tie the ...

We’re listening

Posted by Search for "health insurance" on May 22nd, 2008
Physicians' meeting aimed at evaluating health care Jessica Langdon / Times Record News Friday, May 23, 2008 Dr.

Former Houston doctor sentenced in plot to kill prosecutor

Posted by Search for "health insurance" on May 22nd, 2008
A former doctor serving a decade in federal prison for bilking millions from insurance companies was sentenced Thursday to an additional year after admitting he asked a fellow inmate to arrange to have a ...

Passenger dies as car hits…

Posted by Search for "health insurance" on May 22nd, 2008
A RIVERVALE man was killed in a car crash that injured four other people at Ascot last night.

Weapons cache: Man held over robberies, guns

Posted by Search for "health insurance" on May 22nd, 2008
POLICE investigating armed robberies in Perth's northern suburbs have arrested a man and seized firearms allegedly used in offences.

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Posted by Search for "health insurance" on May 22nd, 2008
A bill that would increase the state cigarette tax for the first time in 31 years is on its way to Gov.

Grant to help cover breast cancer s…..

Posted by Search for "health insurance" on May 22nd, 2008
' A $30,683 grant from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation will allow the Columbiana County Health Department to reach more women with screening mammograms and breast cancer education.