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• What's "less"? And is it better?

  If the boss offered you steeply discounted or free medications for asthma, diabetes, hypertension, depression and other common chronic conditions, would you sign up for that insurance? Would you sign up if it meant you'd have to pay sizable additional Read More... Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:56 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Fresno County, Federal Reserve Board, Evraz Oregon Steel, Tom Berryhill, Kaiser Health News, USA Today

• When zigging, zagging can hurt

  It was one of those weeks. First listening to Mayor Swearengin extol downtown revitalization from my seat behind a pillar at the Grand. Later, behind a palm tree watching Gov. Schwarzenegger hype the advent in years (and billions of dollars) ahead of Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:44 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Wall Street Journal, Fresno County, Community Medical Centers, diabetes, Gov. Schwarzenegger, Mayor Ashley Swearengin

• Do you know your Community?

  When you're noshing with family and friends during the holidays, here are some tidbits to share about Community Medical Centers. We are one of only 13 – Level 1 trauma centers – in California. We are one of only 5 – combined burn and Level 1 trauma centers Read More... Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:23 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Level 1 trauma, Fresno County, Community Medical Centers, Fresno State, Community Regional Medical Center, Reedley, New York Yankees, community benefits, Clovis Community Medical Center, Oakland Athletics, burn center

• UMC's fate: Here's what you think

  When Community returns to Fresno County the total control of the former University Medical Center campus in the next year or so, here are some potential uses that readers of this blog suggested: I'd make the building into a psych care unit because the Read More... Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:36 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Fresno County, Community Medical Centers, University Medical Center

• Recycling smiles

  A cannister sat in the garage. We added to its contents gingerly, wondering if black widows saw nesting possibilities among discarded household batteries. We didn't know quite to expect last weekend when we hauled the batteries, expended fluorescent lights Read More... Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 10:06 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Fresno County, recycling, Earth Day, household hazardous waste

• Jail, and how you look at it

  Been inside jail twice -- best kind of visits -- before one opened in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1970s and before Fresno's "mail jail" opened in 1989. Antiseptic and eerie. Heard one Fresno County supervisor say a few years ago that all jail food should be Read More... Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:16 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Fresno County, mental health, 5150, Dr. George "Bud" Laird

• A 3 to 2 vote vs. reality

  Back in the days of Charles Dickens, people were tossed into prison for unpaid debts. And, illogically, they were forced to stay there until somebody came up with the money. Just how many people do you think are being held in the Fresno County Jail for Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:49 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: SB 1773, Henry R. Perea, Fresno County, Richard Alarcon, Bob Waterston, Judy Case, Phil Larson, Susan Anderson, pediatric trauma