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Could health-care reform loosen ‘job lock’?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

HeraldNet - By Bill Toland - Sep. 06 (News Analysis) - some studies suggest that the quilt-work system of employee-paid health care is discouraging entrepreneurship. That’s because of what’s known as “job lock,” a bit of economics jargon that’s been in vogue since the 1990s, the last time Congress and the president staged a real health reform debate. Basically, “job lock” means that you’re more likely to stay in your current job, which offers health insurance, than take a chance on a startup business, where health expenses would come out of your pocket. So people are “locked” into jobs that they no longer enjoy, where they are economically unproductive, or so the theory goes.

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Soldiers Sue KBR for Chemical Exposure in Iraq

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Kaitlynn Riely - Jul. 12 (News) - Following his yearlong tour of duty that ended in 2004, he coached his son's Little League team, but had to stop because it exhausted him. The 34-year-old, who was able to run two miles in 9:44 before he went to Iraq in 2003, said now he is lucky to finish in 20 minutes.

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10 things Americans should know about World War II

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By Rick Atkinson - May. 24 (Review) - The first thing to know about World War II is that it was a big war, a war that lasted 2,174 days and claimed an average of 27,600 lives every day, or 1,150 an hour, or 19 a minute, or one death every three seconds. One, two, three, snap. One, two, three, snap. In an effort to get our arms around this greatest calamity in human history, let's examine 10 things every American ought to know about the role of the U.S. Army in WWII.

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New African-American history course stretches student minds

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By Joe Smydo - Feb. 06 (News Report) - Pittsburgh Oliver High School teacher Ken Smith doesn't want students to take history; he wants them "doing history." And so the Pittsburgh Public Schools' new African-American history course is designed to stretch students' research, writing and thinking skills while taking them far behind the scenes of a people's struggle for freedom. The district yesterday kicked off Black History Month by gathering civic leaders and school supporters at the Senator John Heinz History Center to introduce the course and a program bringing black artists into three schools. The initiatives are intended to promote achievement among black students who, as a group, trail white students academically. "We have to connect with the kids. We have to be relevant to them," history center President and Chief Executive Officer Andy Masich said.

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After election losses, GOP searching its soul

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By Mackenzie Carpenter - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Calm down -- and start building a bigger tent. That's the bottom-line message Tom Ridge has for hyperventilating Republicans sorting through the wreckage of their defeat at the polls on Nov. 4. "Just take a deep breath and exhale slowly," said Mr. Ridge, former Pennsylvania governor and U.S. homeland security secretary. "Forget about the finger-pointing, and start figuring out the way to a future that makes us relevant not just to our traditional constituency but to independents and independent-thinking Republicans and Democrats."

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Format change will take Cullen off WPTT

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By By Mark Roth - Aug. 19 (News Report) - Even though Serena said politics had nothing to do with the decision, the demise of Cullen's show fits into a larger national picture in which politically liberal talk radio has struggled. As Cullen put it, "You could drive from the East Coast to the West Coast and never hear anything other than a right-wing point of view."

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Comcastic? Fans smell a political rat in moving MSNBC

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By No author listed - Jul. 19 (Editorial) - Hours before a televised presidential debate last December in Portland, Ore., Comcast moved the liberal-leaning MSNBC from basic cable to digital premium. Viewer fury was immediate. Comcast was inundated with complaints from thousands of cable subscribers who would not have been able to switch to the higher-priced package to see the debate on time even if they had wanted to.

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Casey backs Obama

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By James O'Toole - Mar. 29 (News Report) - Sen. Bob Casey's decision to embrace the candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama yesterday was aimed at two very different audiences: the Pennsylvania Democrats who backed him in a landslide victory over former Sen. Rick Santorum two years ago and the party's scores of unpledged superdelegates nationwide, who may be called on to settle the nomination fight....Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., ... in a public radio interview, suggested Mrs. Clinton pull out.

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MBA mystery in Morgantown

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By Patricia Sabatini, Len Boselovic - Dec. 22 (Special Report) - West Virginia University has awarded an MBA degree to Heather Bresch, a politically well-connected top executive at drug giant Mylan Inc., rewriting university records that originally showed she had completed only about half the credits needed to earn the degree. Top officials took the action nearly a decade after she was a student. The revision was sparked by a routine call from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to confirm the academic credentials of Ms. Bresch, daughter of West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, following her Oct. 2 promotion to chief operating officer at Mylan. The Cecil-based company is chaired by Milan Puskar, WVU's largest benefactor.

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Salt water as fuel? Erie man hopes so

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 06:50:01 -0700

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By David Templeton - Sep. 09 (News Report) - John Kanzius, a Washington County native, tried to desalinate seawater with a generator he developed to treat cancer, and it caused a flash in the test tube. Within days, he had the salt water in the test tube burning like a candle, as long as it was exposed to radio frequencies.

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City law firm's immigration video sparks an Internet firestorm

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:23:25 -0700

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By Anya Sostek - Jun. 22 (News Report) - The segment of the video drawing all the attention is one in which lawyers from Cohen & Grigsby's highly regarded immigration practice advocate methods to comply with a law requiring employers prove that they have tried to find qualified American workers before applying for a green card for a foreign worker. The lawyers urge the audience, in so many words, to do exactly the opposite.

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No trouble for Buchanan to stay in line

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:42:56 -0700

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By Paula Reed Ward - Mar. 18 (News Report) - When Mary Beth Buchanan became U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Bush administration had already laid out its priorities for federal prosecutions: Drugs, obscenity and public corruption. In the more than five years she's been in office, Ms. Buchanan has followed that charge with diligence.

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Pa. lacks paper backup to voting electronically

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:26:50 -0800

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By Jerome L. Sherman - Nov. 27 (News Report) - Pennsylvania is one of a shrinking number of states that doesn't require its electronic voting machines to have some type of visible paper backup, a feature that has frustrated scores of voting rights activists and computer experts.

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The myth of universal health care

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:35:20 -0700

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By Doug Moore - Jun. 24 (Opinion) - .... Despite this deliberate overinflation of the facts, it remains a laudable and important goal to reduce the number of uninsured. Tax credits for lower-income individuals, however, are the best method for achieving this goal -- not universal health care.

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