Commentary
Commentary
Kids’ Obesity Rates Leveling Off
Weight Loss Tips Blog, August 27, 2008 Childhood obesity rates in the United States have leveled off after decades of increases, according to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Analysts say the study, which found no significant increases in the prevalence of high body ...
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Mixing Oil and Water
On Aug. 6, the California Coastal Commission approved a desalination plant at Carlsbad in San Diego County, a region with severe water needs in normal times and hard hit by the current drought. The $300-million for-profit venture by the Poseidon Resources Corporation aims to produce as much as 50 million ...
Business & Economics
Don’t undermine advance in reform of medical malpractice
It is mind-boggling that the Illinois Supreme Court might nix the successful medical malpractice reforms enacted in 2005 — just as the Metro East area begins recovering from the damage inflicted by years of crippling tort judgments (“Illinois’ med mal law on trial,” Aug. 18). Thanks to these reforms, Madison ...
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Court Re-Connects with Reality in Homeschool Reversal
SACRAMENTO – Earlier this year, California’s Second District Court of Appeal shocked parents and lawmakers by effectively banning the homeschooling of children. In my column “Court Out of Touch with Reality in Homeschool Decision ,” I pointed out that the court had ignored a longtime state practice that gave approval ...
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Multilingual Mandate Madness
By July 1, California health plans had to complete a key phase in their compliance with SB-853, which compels them to provide translation services in whatever languages its members demand. California is still in the United States, so I’ll go out on a limb and guess that the majority of ...
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It’s the Outcomes, Silly
Well-meaning but ignorant folks from the AMA to AARP [ed: sorry, couldn’t find any Z org’s that fit the bill] have long touted gummint-run healthcare, a la Medicare, as the ideal solution to a system they consider “broken.” Nationalized health care, they argue, provides the most fair and efficient means ...
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‘RomneyCare’ should keep Mitt off McCain ticket
Scripps News Service, August 26, 2008 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 26, 2008 Socialized Medicine Blog (Australia), September 2, 2008 Just as most folks maintain a healthy distance from those with contagious diseases, John McCain would be wise to keep Willard Mitt Romney at arm’s length. Choosing him for vice president would ...
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The governor’s war on health insurance choice
Ever since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ABX1 1 stumbled just short of the finish line last January, he and his Democratic allies in the Legislature have been looking to move bits and pieces of the failed health reform plan forward. Amazingly, one that he favors is sponsored by the legislator who ...
Business & Economics
Labor reform debate needed
It’s no surprise that the labor movement is behind the Democratic Party and presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama. The union movement has normally maintained cordial, if not intimate, ties with Democrats. Some estimate that unions will spend nearly $1 billion this election cycle in support of Democrats. What’s different this ...
Commentary
Wind Power Pollution
Cohoton Wind Watch (New York), August 25, 2008 They say let us clear the air together, do they mean let us befoul the North Country? The wind industry’s development of a giant industrial complex aka a “wind farm” produces large amounts of greenhouse gases as well as significant mercury pollution. ...
Kids’ Obesity Rates Leveling Off
Weight Loss Tips Blog, August 27, 2008 Childhood obesity rates in the United States have leveled off after decades of increases, according to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Analysts say the study, which found no significant increases in the prevalence of high body ...
Mixing Oil and Water
On Aug. 6, the California Coastal Commission approved a desalination plant at Carlsbad in San Diego County, a region with severe water needs in normal times and hard hit by the current drought. The $300-million for-profit venture by the Poseidon Resources Corporation aims to produce as much as 50 million ...
Don’t undermine advance in reform of medical malpractice
It is mind-boggling that the Illinois Supreme Court might nix the successful medical malpractice reforms enacted in 2005 — just as the Metro East area begins recovering from the damage inflicted by years of crippling tort judgments (“Illinois’ med mal law on trial,” Aug. 18). Thanks to these reforms, Madison ...
Court Re-Connects with Reality in Homeschool Reversal
SACRAMENTO – Earlier this year, California’s Second District Court of Appeal shocked parents and lawmakers by effectively banning the homeschooling of children. In my column “Court Out of Touch with Reality in Homeschool Decision ,” I pointed out that the court had ignored a longtime state practice that gave approval ...
Multilingual Mandate Madness
By July 1, California health plans had to complete a key phase in their compliance with SB-853, which compels them to provide translation services in whatever languages its members demand. California is still in the United States, so I’ll go out on a limb and guess that the majority of ...
It’s the Outcomes, Silly
Well-meaning but ignorant folks from the AMA to AARP [ed: sorry, couldn’t find any Z org’s that fit the bill] have long touted gummint-run healthcare, a la Medicare, as the ideal solution to a system they consider “broken.” Nationalized health care, they argue, provides the most fair and efficient means ...
‘RomneyCare’ should keep Mitt off McCain ticket
Scripps News Service, August 26, 2008 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 26, 2008 Socialized Medicine Blog (Australia), September 2, 2008 Just as most folks maintain a healthy distance from those with contagious diseases, John McCain would be wise to keep Willard Mitt Romney at arm’s length. Choosing him for vice president would ...
The governor’s war on health insurance choice
Ever since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ABX1 1 stumbled just short of the finish line last January, he and his Democratic allies in the Legislature have been looking to move bits and pieces of the failed health reform plan forward. Amazingly, one that he favors is sponsored by the legislator who ...
Labor reform debate needed
It’s no surprise that the labor movement is behind the Democratic Party and presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama. The union movement has normally maintained cordial, if not intimate, ties with Democrats. Some estimate that unions will spend nearly $1 billion this election cycle in support of Democrats. What’s different this ...
Wind Power Pollution
Cohoton Wind Watch (New York), August 25, 2008 They say let us clear the air together, do they mean let us befoul the North Country? The wind industry’s development of a giant industrial complex aka a “wind farm” produces large amounts of greenhouse gases as well as significant mercury pollution. ...
