For years the northeast corner of 38th Street and Arlington Avenue has brought little but blight to the surrounding community. The Value City that once stood there closed a decade ago, leaving a boarded-up shell and parking lot pocked with potholes in its wake. Two summers ago, a pop-up party drew hundreds and a stray bullet…
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OKLAHOMA CITY – This New Year, Shape Your Future, a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, encourages Oklahomans to build healthy habits through small changes in everyday routines. Instead of setting resolutions without a plan to achieve them, create and maintain healthy lifestyles by changing one habit at a time. “Unrealistic New Year’s goals…
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The Build Back Better Act, H.R. 5376, (BBBA), adopted by the House of Representatives on November 19, 2021 with the support of President Biden, includes a broad package of health, social, climate change and revenue provisions. The total package includes $1.7 trillion in spending, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which also projects that…
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The Build Back Better Act would make a number of changes to the way people get health insurance and how health care is financed, including by temporarily closing the Medicaid coverage gap. Under current law, 2.2 million uninsured people living in the 12 states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)…
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WASHINGTON — Of all the “bitter disappointments” he had as president, Harry Truman once wrote, the “one that has troubled me most, in a personal way,” was the failure to enact a national program that would assure all Americans “a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.” More than 75 years after…
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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Perla Rosalez, an unemployed grandmother in the Rio Grande Valley, stays awake at night worrying about getting sick and leaving the three grandchildren who are under her care. The 50-year-old rations both her medications and…
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