| DFLers advance health insurance plan
A bold plan to provide health insurance coverage for all Minnesotans through a government run program was advanced today by DFL legislators, who say they expect to wage a three or four year battle for such a system. The proposed Minnesota Health Plan was touted as the most effective way to transfer savings resulting from lower insurance overhead and other costs to provide coverage for an estimated 400,000 uninsured Minnesotans. The effort is being led largely by new House members, who say they are responding to numerous complaints about health insurance while campaigning in 2006. "Health care was either number one or number two as a primary concern," said Rep. David Bly, DFL-Northfield. The single-payer plan will compete with less dramatic proposals for health coverage reform during the upcoming legislative session.
Clinton camp accuses Obama of plagiarizing lines
He added that he and Patrick agreed not only on many issues but on the language to describe them. "Sen. Obama and I are longtime friends and allies. We often share ideas about politics, policy and language," Patrick said in a statement. "The argument in question, on the value of words in the public square, is one about which he and I have spoken frequently before. Given the recent attacks from Sen. Clinton, I applaud him responding in just the way he did." Obama said Patrick was aware of his use of the governor's verbiage. "I was on the stump. He had suggested that we use these lines, and I thought they were good lines," Obama told reporters Monday on a trip to Ohio before returning to Wisconsin. Further, Obama added, the senator from New York has borrowed from him also, including a couple of his signature phrases.
DFLers advance health insurance plan
A bold plan to provide health insurance coverage for all Minnesotans through a government run program was advanced today by DFL legislators, who say they expect to wage a three or four year battle for such a system. The proposed Minnesota Health Plan was touted as the most effective way to transfer savings resulting from lower insurance overhead and other costs to provide coverage for an estimated 400,000 uninsured Minnesotans. The effort is being led largely by new House members, who say they are responding to numerous complaints about health insurance while campaigning in 2006. "Health care was either number one or number two as a primary concern," said Rep. David Bly, DFL-Northfield. The single-payer plan will compete with less dramatic proposals for health coverage reform during the upcoming legislative session.
LOCAL ECONOMY: Staffing may have soft year Housing recovery's pace ...
Economists and employment consultants are predicting a soft year ahead for hiring in Las Vegas and Nevada, as sustained lethargy in the housing market combines with slow growth in the resort sector to cap expansion ambitions among area businesses. Researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' Center for Business and Economic Research are forecasting 2.1 percent job growth for Southern Nevada in 2008, while analysts at the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation said they expect job formation to clock in at 1.9 percent statewide next year. Those numbers are well below the state's 5 percent and 6 percent job-growth rates of 2005 and 2006, but they're an improvement on the 1 percent pace of recent months. The employment department isn't expecting a dramatic turnaround in job growth because economists there predict new jobs in residential construction will be hard to come by for much of 2008.
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Pudding up with stale bread
Any pastry chef worth his tart can whip up a sumptuous treat using artisanal chocolate or fresh-picked, peak-season berries. But it takes a truly gifted sweetsmith to turn out a tempting masterpiece from a basket of day-old bread. Like most things French, bread pudding was invented as a way to use up baguettes that had seen better days. The dried cubes of bread are tossed with sweetened cream and eggs, then baked to the consistency of a loose, moist cake. It's the dessert-course version of traditional turkey-day stuffing. And like its savory counterpart, flawed renditions run the gamut from mushy gruel to desiccated nothingness. After choking down enough forgettable versions to build a cheap foam mattress, we found two that got everything right: at Grotto in Beacon Hill and Sel de la Terre in Natick.
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