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Is Prime Healthcare settling scores with union?
In recent years, Prime Healthcare has built a reputation as a take-no-prisoners company willing to run roughshod over patients and employees alike in its quest for profits — $283 million on revenue of $1.6 billion in 2010, according to a financial...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Politics, Marketing, Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Contract Issues
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From pride to disillusionment: a black leader sours on Obama
I can hear 'em now. "He's a good guy"; "He's a family man"; "He'll govern like a moderate"; "It will be so good for the country"; "He's post-partisan." That the election of a mixed-race candidate for president sent positive messages about America around...
Tags: Unemployment, Politics, Credit Ratings, Philosophy, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Obama Debases Trust In Government
The Hartford CourantLast week was amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government's large capacity for misbehavior. And, entertainingly, the answer to the question "Will Barack Obama's scandals...Tags: Benghazi, Politics, Internal Revenue Service, Nicaragua, Global Warming
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Court refs intervene in superbrawl
To borrow a football metaphor, a federal appeals court threw the flag last week against the president of the United States for unsportsmanlike conduct. Specifically, a three-judge panel in the Washington, D.C., circuit ruled that President Barack Obama'...Tags: Politics, George H.W. Bush, Washington, DC, Bill Clinton, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Kingsley Guy: County name change makes sense
"What's in a name?" inquired Shakespeare's Juliet. A good question. After all, Broward County by any other name would still be Broward County. Yet, there's a certain logic in changing Broward to Fort Lauderdale County in order to give the area greater...Tags: Port Canaveral, Miami Hotels, New York Yankees, Spring Training, Port Everglades
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Right-to-Work Battle Inches Toward Connecticut
The Hartford CourantConnecticut in some ways resembles Michigan, a high-wage industrial state with about the same proportion of union membership as of 2011 -- 17.7 percent here, 18.3 percent there, compared with 11.8 percent for the nation. A year ago, heck, six weeks ago,...Tags: Unions, Detroit Free Press, United Auto Workers, Politics, Connecticut Economic Development
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The Top 10 Connecticut Business Stories of 2012
The Hartford CourantIn some ways, 2012 was a carryover year from news of 2011, as the governor continued his aggressive economic development spending, United Technologies Corp. consummated a deal it announced in 2011, and the year's nastiest labor strike grew out of a 2011...Tags: Unemployment, Politics, Connecticut Economic Development, Antitrust Issues, Unemployment Benefits
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Databases Analyzed To Detect Ineligible Recipients Of State Health Coverage
The Hartford CourantState officials have been using computer databases to detect whether government employees are improperly keeping ineligible people on their health insurance plans as dependents — including ex-spouses after divorces, or even spouses after legal...Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Politics, Health and Safety at Work, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Public Employees
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NFL follows corporate America's game plan in referees dispute
The one thing about the National Football League on which almost everyone agrees is that it takes its job of providing first-rate entertainment very seriously. That could be one explanation for the league's effort to supplement the pleasure of watching...
Tags: Roger Goodell, Baseball, Anti Trust Crime, Entertainment, Employment Opportunities
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Nervous Obama takes refuge in his base
One of the first rules of politics is to re-energize the base when in trouble. Rarely have we observed such adherence to the rule as in the case of President Barack Obama. Economic growth is anemic. The high expectations (and optimistic predictions) that...
Tags: Voting, Judges, Politics, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice
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Bring farmworkers' plight into the sunlight
FRESNO — It was around 2 o'clock, temperatures rising under an arcing sun, when I met two workers on a peach farm near here recently. One had first entered the country illegally nearly 40 years ago but later became a U.S. citizen at a time when the...
Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Parties and Movements, Migration, Politics, Dianne Feinstein
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Message to symphony orchestras in troubled times: Think positive
Fifty years ago, a group of 30 musicians from a dozen different orchestras in the U.S. and Canada met at Roosevelt University here to discuss how they could save their beleaguered profession. It was a terrible time for symphony players. In 1962, most...
Tags: Wage Contract Issues, Politics, Raleigh, Chicago Mayor, Battles (music group)
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