Interest groups take aim at health taxes
WASHINGTON Insurance companies, unions, medical device makers and others in the health care industry are furiously lobbying lawmakers to shift burdens onto someone else anyone else before they find themselves saddled with billions of dollars in...
 5.7K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 1000.0 Harpist uses music to console the dying
SPRINGFIELD In a white-walled hospital room, pancreatic cancer slowly drained all the life that remained in Carolyn. There was nothing more to do for this 62-year-old woman no oxygen or other life support, just a morphine drip to keep her as comf...
6.6K - Jul. 27, 2009; scored 841.0 Ah, the Washington media elite
Court societies invariably expend amazing amounts of time and energy squabbling over arcane matters of order and degree. Decaying aristocracies become obsessed with hierarchical minutia: who outranks whom, and for precisely which reasons? So it is am...
5.0K - Jul. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 Church tries to find new market by advertising
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Shrinking mainline Protestant denominations are turning to marketing to help stem decades of membership losses and stay afloat. The United Methodist Church recently unveiled a $20 million rebranding effort aimed at attrac...
5.1K - May. 30, 2009; scored 841.0 A cue from real life
To Joel Wear, existence seems to have been split into two unbalanced, uneven parts: Life before filmmaking and now. Considering all the jobs the 25-year-old has shouldered in the film industry - director, editor, camera man, gaffer, screenwriter - it...
5.3K - May. 19, 2009; scored 841.0 Distress beacon changes start Sunday
BOSTON (AP) Like callers dialing 911 and getting no answer, boaters could end up stranded or worse if they haven t upgraded their emergency distress beacons by this weekend. But the improved technology will speed rescues and spare agencies from...
4.4K - Jan. 31, 2009; scored 841.0 Public access TV gets an upgrade
NORTH BEND Want to make your own movie, music video or public access show? Don t go out and buy a video camera and lighting equipment. PEG Broadcasting Services Inc. the local public access and government television channels recently added a ne...
4.1K - Dec. 30, 2008; scored 841.0 Unmask the last-minute sugar daddies
Oregon is justifiably proud of its campaign finance system. State law mandates electronic reporting of contributions and expenditures, and the database is searchable by any citizen with Internet access. But the system is not perfect. Loren Parks, the...
2.8K - Nov. 12, 2008; scored 1000.0 | 
