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• When monogamy's bad

  Maybe it's because the New York Times has downsized, or because it's butting heads with the rough-and-tumble owner of the New York Post and Wall Street Journal. But, really, did it have to describe readers who visit just one online site for their news Read More... Posted Monday, March 15, 2010 1:37 PM by jtaylor | 1 Comments Filed under: health care reporting, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, N.Y. Post, Pew Research Center

• Reform and radioactive rabbits

  If ever an issue were "radioactive" -- too hot to easily handle -- it is national health care reform. That leaped to mind as I read about researchers in Hanford, Wash., trying to track the spread of radioactive material from the plutonium there used for Read More... Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 1:34 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hanford, New York Times, nuclear weapons, national health care reform, radioactive, Wash., gamma rays

• 4 quotes = villain, regular Joe?

  "We believe there's a better way to control costs by controlling utilization and getting people involved in their health care." "You're not having a good day when you're talking to us, unfortunately." "Our industry has not done a great job of improving Read More... Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 1:26 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: New York Times, Humana

• The language of insanity

  I came to California in 1981 and immediately fell in love with the still-blushing Proposition 13. Where else could you buy a $96,000 house and pay less taxes than on the $40,000 house you owned in Milwaukee? Alas, the romance has withered. From New York Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:46 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Fresno Bee, Sacramento Bee, New York Times, Donald Munro, Claim Jumper

• Not stupid, just California

  Cheap-shot artists, elitists and deep thinkers have put a serious case of "whoop fanny" on California lately. The July 5 Sunday New York Times magazine, profiling "The Gavinator?!?!" (SF Mayor Gavin Newsom) and other would-be state leaders: "Going to Read More... Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 10:46 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: UC Merced, health care reform, UCLA Center of Health Policy Research, New York Times, Gov. Schwarzenegger, Economist, Gavin Newsom

• 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

• Paper trained

  It's been a monthlong experiment. Going cold turkey, no home-delivered newspapers. First time in my adult life. No Wall Street Journal. No New York Times. No wafer-thin Fresno Bee. I canceled them all. But I'm surrendering. I can't blame the bird. She Read More... Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 3:43 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Facebook, Twitter, Fresnosn

• The squeaky-clean Yankees

  Quicker than you can say methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, we've come to know both the importance of repeated hand-washing and that key incubators of germs include computer keyboards, public rest rooms, cell phones and doctors' neckties. So, Read More... Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 9:24 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: New York Times, New York Yankees, FabricAide, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, Bazooka bubble gum, SportsAide1000, Yankees Sod, Yankees Grass Seed