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Wos readying for questions from NC legislature
After months of outside scrutiny on how they've operated two new computer systems and hired high-priced contract workers, North Carolina health agency leaders prepared for tough questions from the people who give them their money to spend. Two General Assembly oversight committees scheduled public meetings Tuesday to hear from Health ...
Ohio abortion foes back $10K adoption tax credit
Ohio's largest anti-abortion group is pushing a proposal to reduce wait times and increase tax credits for adoptive families. Ohio Right to Life president Mike Gonidakis (gawn-ih-DAW'-kis) tells The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/17f7IGL) that making adoptions cheaper and faster will further his organization's goal of reducing Ohio's abortion rate. Republican state ...
Southern Missouri river towns struck by shutdown
Many of the people who live amid the hills and hollows around this southern Missouri town aren't comfortable with the government telling them they have to do anything, let alone buy health insurance. In 2010, voters here overwhelmingly supported a statewide ballot measure that opposed a federal mandate calling for ...
Michigan may require all schools to have EpiPens
Moms whose kids have severe food allergies are spurring lawmakers to consider stocking every public school in Michigan with special injectors to treat life-threatening allergic reactions. Bills moving forward in the House would require the schools to have two epinephrine device, or EpiPens, and to train one or two employees ...
Wisconsin lawmakers cool to DNR pet deer plan
Wisconsin wildlife officials' proposal to let people keep wild deer if they pay a fine is getting a cool reception from lawmakers, who say it amounts to selling off a public resource. Republican Gov. Scott Walker told the Department of Natural Resources to find less controversial ways of handling captive ...
Michigan may require all schools to have EpiPens
Moms whose kids have severe food allergies are spurring lawmakers to consider stocking every public school in Michigan with special injectors to treat life-threatening allergic reactions. Bills moving forward in the House would require the schools to have two epinephrine device, or EpiPens, and to train one or two employees ...
Michigan may require all schools to have EpiPens
Moms whose kids have severe food allergies are spurring lawmakers to consider stocking every public school in Michigan with special injectors to treat life-threatening allergic reactions. Bills moving forward in the state House require schools to have two epinephrine devices, or EpiPens, and to train some employees to administer the ...
Wis. lawmaker introduces anti-heroin legislation
A northeastern Wisconsin lawmaker whose daughter is struggling with a heroin addiction introduced a package of bills Friday designed to combat the drug. Press-Gazette Media reported that Rep. John Nygren, a Marinette Republican, announced the bills during a news conference Friday at the Brown County Sheriff's Department. Nygren's 24-year-old daughter, ...
Petition would restrict Mich. abortion coverage
Michigan abortion foes on Friday moved to the brink of banning abortion coverage from health plans unless a woman purchases a separate policy by submitting more than the required number of signatures to get the proposal before a receptive Legislature. If the secretary of state deems enough of the 315,477 ...
California gives immigrants driver's licenses
California on Thursday joined the growing list of states that allow immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally to obtain driver's licenses — a measure supported not only by Latino activists but by police chiefs and insurance authorities. Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill in front of a cheering ...
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