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• Jolly green mumbo jumbo

  Would be nice to say the omnipresent debate was strictly about ensuring quality, affordable health-care coverage for all Americans. But the whorls of news from Sacramento and DC are laden with spin and pivot, money and political mayhem. And, of course, Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7:53 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: health care reform, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Michael Hiltzik, Frank Luntz

• Slash, but don't burn

  Let's give the LA Times some credit. At a time when newspapers, including the Times, are being written off, are hunkering down and taking safety in the free food of reporting based on public records, the Times produced a decent game plan in an editorial Read More... Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 2:48 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Medi-Cal, Los Angeles Times, California's budget deficit

• Edges of ice

  Shards of ice were still scattered in the midday sun after a furious April storm stunned Fresno and the Central Valley. You could mistake it for patches of snow. It riveted my attention during a week in which the Fresno Bee's front-page headline gave Read More... Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:55 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Susan Anderson, Fresno Bee, Los Angeles Times, Fresno County Board of Supervisors, Community Medical Centers, Hospital Council of Northern and Central California, Lynne Ashbeck, hospital ERs, mentally ill, homeless

• Like "Lost"? Luv California

  Never seen the TV series, "Lost." But understand it's had a complicated plot line over four seasons in which time travel has now been written in tales of the desert-island survivors of a jetliner crash. Must make for one heckuva flow chart to keep track Read More... Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 11:15 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Orange County Register, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, California state budget, "Lost"

• At least this dinosaur can bite

  My dentist of 20 years calls me "his dinosaur." I'm one of only a couple of his patients who gets teeth drilled and filled, crowns implanted -- dang near everything -- without an anesthetic. Anesthetic was never offered to me as a kid. And my Catholic Read More... Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:54 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Medi-Cal, Los Angeles Times, California budget deficits, Dr. Diana Zschaschel, dentists, dinosaurs

• Sanity? Focus on Feb. 14

  I can almost see February 14, touch it, smile at it. As long as I don't let my mind wander, all will be good. But it does wander. What parts of health care will suffer in California's $14 billion budget deficit? Does it make sense to push a $14 billion Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:42 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Kaiser, February 14, Los Angeles Times, baseball, health care spending, Valentine's day