Monthly Archives: September 2010
NC receives over $2.7M to help people navigate health, long-term care options
Editorial: Blue Ridge Forever saving our heritage, culture and economy
Editorial: Steps closer to equitable health system
Cape Fear Valley gets $38 million loan for Hoke outpatient clinic
Bragg PTSD diagnoses low, but anti-depressant use up
The immigration debate this election season
The health care reform achievement
Last week marked the six month anniversary of the passage of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (aka the “health care reform law”). Now, as we look back on that incredibly difficult debate and begin to see some of the new consumer protections take effect, it’s increasingly clear that national leaders did the right thing. Despite its many imperfections and all of the politically motivated distortions propagated by politicians and ideologues on the far right, the new law takes several critical steps in the right direction to improve the lives of average Americans. [Continue Reading...]
Not a specific in sight
If you want a perfect illustration of how absurd the state legislative campaigns have become, consider a report by a conservative think tank on the race in House District 88 which covers Alexander County. [Continue Reading...]
