With the Olympic Trials covering miles across areas like Thornton Park, Lake Eola, and the Milk District, businesses throughout the city will get a boost.
Dan Walters: California Democratic leaders take heat from two directions mtdemocrat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mtdemocrat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A major factor in California’s startling evolution from a state with two evenly matched political parties to one utterly dominated by Democrats has been their back-scratching partnership with labor unions.
Democratic politicians have delivered on the unions’ bread-and-butter priorities, from pension
a person. i have been a builder, an urban planner, a developer and a salon owner. i have watched the crooked politicians flying over to mexico, china, japan, and investing money. there is so much going on in this country that people do not understand. host: north carolina on our republican line. caller: i am a first-time caller. i think we need health care for everybody of some sort. host: single-payer system? caller: maybe, i am not sure. i am a disabled nurse. i was diagnosed with a large aneurism. things do happen. host: who covers do now? caller: i have the blue cross, blue shield and have had to keep interest. host: you support single-payer? caller: my entrance iinsurance h my husband. i cannot afford my daughter on the plan. host: we will have to leave it there. we will be back tomorrow. now to the floor of the house of representatives. . [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] the speaker: the hou
decisions to washington a. government takeover of personal health insurance. as a physician, i know that government interference only harms patient access to health care. real positive reform will only be achieved by empowering patients not government and not bureaucrats. positive reform starts with giving ownership of health coverage back to the patient not the government. allowing individuals full control over their coverage will make insurers truly accountability to patients, leading to greater choice, innovation, and responsiveness. secondly we must provide the proper financial incentives so that there is no reason to be uninsured. with tax reform not government mandates we can achieve universal access to care for all americans. mr. speaker, republicans have a positive patient centered prescription for america that doesn t result in a government takeover. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman s time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california ris