Last week, I stopped at 231-237 Pennsylvania Ave. I walked back and forth along the sidewalk. I walked around the back of the building. I crossed the street and looked at it from a different perspective. As I stood there, my heart was stirring. I thought about the history that happened inside ...
Data Centers are coming. Why not in Warren County? We have lots of water for cooling and electricity and gas for power. If we could get a head of the ball and properly regulate the medium size one here we could benefit from the property taxes and jobs the centers would generate. How are we going to make up for the tax revenue we are losing as the appeals are being approved? There are many potential sites. How about the coal fly ash dump next to the former PennElec power plant in Starbrick? If a center was built on this site it would cap the dump and prevent further water pollution. ...
Did you know that information from your medical record may be used to identify you as a potential plaintiff in a lawsuit? Most people understand that their online searches, website visits and clicks can influence the ads they see. Far fewer realize that information from patient health records may also be used to identify people as potential claimants in mass tort cases. Pending federal lawsuits accuse hospitals and companies involved in the exchange of health information of using patient records for commercial purposes, including identifying potential plaintiffs. The possibility alone ...
Members of Congress have many legislative priorities to consider while back home in their districts during their summer legislative recess. One piece of legislation would have the biggest effect on Americans: A bipartisan effort to reduce crushing healthcare costs by requiring systemwide price transparency. The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act, which recently passed a Senate committee, requires hospitals and health insurers to publish their upfront prices, including their negotiated rates by health plan, for all services. Such meaningful price transparency can protect patients from ...
They are thieves. The bigger ones are bandits. What’s more surprising is that they are assisting our housekeeping efforts. I’m talking about the fact that we seem to be hosting a mini traffic jam on our deck in the middle of the night. They are eaters, but so far, the good kind. Two nights ago, as darkness set, Dear Richard was heading inside from our dinner on the deck. Since we had chomped down two luscious cobs of corn each, he was carrying the butter dish along with his dishes. Somehow, between the table and the living room door, he tipped the butter dish and the ...
What is the death count under Donald Trump? We're not talking about loss of life in his war with Iran. We're not talking about natural deaths by aging or unpreventable diseases. We mean Americans who die because they refuse safe vaccines that Trump or his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., questions or discourages. A recent occurrence of death and suffering comes from the refusal by many parents to let doctors give their newborns a vitamin K shot. Infants are naturally deficient in vitamin K, which helps prevent blood clots and internal bleeding, which can be horrific. K is a ...
