After Wrath: Locals Share Family Dust Bowl Migration Memories
After Wrath: Locals share family Dust Bowl migration memories
My colleague Julian Guthrie has a very good read in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle, interviewing Bay Area-based “Okies” who moved to California during the Dust Bowl agricultural disaster of the 1930s — immortalized in the 1939 John Steinbeck novel …
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Is Your Doctor One of the 340 in Texas to Make More Than $1 Million From …
Is your doctor one of the 340 in Texas to make more than million from …
More than 340 doctors and other care providers in Texas received over $ 1 million each in 2012 under the government's Medicare health insurance program, according to data released Wednesday that provides the public… Continue reading
Conservatives Seek to Lead on Prison Reform
Conservatives seek to lead on prison reform
At first blush, the Midland-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank, might seem an unlikely cheerleader for prison reform. Michael LaFaive, a fiscal analyst for the Mackinac … Does it makes sense to lock up as many people …
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Duke Researchers Uncover New Disease in Mysteriously Sick Child
Duke researchers uncover new disease in mysteriously sick child
April 20 — DURHAM — Their mission, like detectives tackling a stack of cold case files, was to determine the genetic underpinnings of disease in patients who had been undiagnosable, sometimes for years. But the team of Duke researchers — whose… Continue reading
New Medicare Data Reveal Startling $496 Million Wasted on Chiropractors
New Medicare Data Reveal Startling 6 Million Wasted On Chiropractors
A Washington Post story focused on the top 10 Medicare billers, including one ophthalmologist in Florida who was paid $ 20 million by Medicare, mostly to cover Lucentis, a drug for macular degeneration. The Post … To be precise, the… Continue reading
Synanon's Sober Utopia: How a Drug Rehab Program Became a Violent Cult
Synanon's Sober Utopia: How A Drug Rehab Program Became A Violent Cult
… one single act, but with many small changes that would enable the organisation to evolve into something much more dangerous. What was once a small drug rehab facility in sunny Santa Monica would become a violent, abusive… Continue reading