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More Choice for Consumers is Always Healthy

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:46:05 +0000

It is remarkable in the debate over health care reform how policymakers are ignoring the one thing that has been proven to work: consumer-driven health care (full article)

(FSB Magazine) — When John Trupiano and I co-founded our software company Smartlogic Solutions in 2005, we were college students who knew a lot about writing code but nothing about running a tech consulting business. Then a client took advantage of our ignorance, which taught us some valuable – and expensive – lessons.

Bailout Fallout

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:45:05 +0000

The next time he sees President Obama, Mayor Bloomberg should lay out how the White House’s auto-industry bailouts have hit hard at US financial markets — and so hurt New York’s future.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Paul Solarz is a real life Smokey the Bear who knows how to prevent and manage forest fires. And his company, PatRick Environmental, recently landed a contract, backed by stimulus money from the Recovery Act, to do just that.

PatRick won a bid to trim areas of Oregon’s Deschutes & Ochoco National Forest and Crooked River National Grassland. This controlled thinning will promote new growth and cut some trees so that natural wildfires don’t become unmanageable.

The project is just one of thousands being carried out across the U.S., in which stimulus money is being used to shore up the country’s infrastructure and generate much-needed business for local companies.

ABC News Teams Up With Obama White House to Present President’s Health Care Plan

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:43:16 +0000

ABC News will host an hour-long special on health care reform in the U.S. next Wednesday from the White House East Room — a move that ABC is defending but critics are calling a surrender to the Obama administration’s effort to control the debate.

Police found Timothy Murray at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a wooded stretch in the Folsom area of St. Tammany Parish, the release said.

Police returned Murray to the St. Tammany Parish Jail in Covington, north of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Murray, 29, is charged with murder, said Capt. George Bonnett of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office.