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Sept 14 webinar! School-located vaccination clinics strategy
FYI – NACCHO is hosting a second webinar to discuss other strategies for using schools as venues for mass influenza vaccination campaigns. This webinar will be held Monday, September 14… Read more »
‘The time for bickering is over’
Obama urges Congress to overhaul health care, spells out details; Denounces misrepresentations, evokes Kennedy’s moral stance By Lisa Wangsness and Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | September 10, 2009 WASHINGTON –… Read more »
Politics salts the labor breakfast
By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff | September 8, 2009 From little-known city councilor candidates to veteran congressmen, a crush of politicians worked the Back Bay hotel ballroom as if it… Read more »
Rally demands a sweeping change in health system
By Meghan E. Irons, Globe Staff | September 8, 2009 More than 1,000 advocates for a new national health care system rallied on Boston Common yesterday, shouting slogans and holding… Read more »
At a crucial juncture, union leader is retiring
Sweeney exiting amid new optimism By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times | September 8, 2009 LOS ANGELES – He came to power as an insurgent vowing to shake up… Read more »
Health overhaul may ride on tactic
Seldom-used rule could thwart GOP Democrats would need only 51 votes By Lisa Wangsness and Sasha Issenberg, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent | September 2, 2009 With bipartisan efforts to… Read more »
What the end-of-life conversation can bring
By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff | September 2, 2009 PLYMOUTH – Ed and Catherine Pratt are fierce rivals. Their battlefield is a cribbage board, and competition is in full swing… Read more »
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Bold risk for teachers union
THE BOSTON Teachers Union is trying to turn the tables on its critics by opening a pilot school that removes layers of bureaucracy between students and their teachers. Randi Weingarten,… Read more »