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Tuesday
November 25, 2003
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Bar Harbor flat ramps photographed at high tide, 19.5 feet... Front page photo by Chris Wilhelm
Tuesday, November 25, 2003 - 12:45 am National: Senate
set to approve Medicare overhaul; Democrats fail in last-minute
efforts to block $400 billion plan - The Senate was expected
to approve Tuesday morning a contentious $400 billion plan to
overhaul Medicare, after opponents of the bill spent most of
Monday afternoon and evening voicing their displeasure with the
measure. Alaska: Medicare Bill Is Vital to Alaskans Says Sen. Murkowski - Saying that the Medicare bill now before the Senate will provide good drug coverage for senior citizens, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski urged Senate approval of the most major reform in Medicare in 38 years - the creation of a voluntary prescription drug benefit for all senior citizens. She also supported the bill because it will provide more aid to Alaska physicians to make it easier for Medicare patients to find and keep good doctors. "Many of my colleagues
on the other side of the aisle would like Americans to believe
that this bill is designed to kill the health care promises for
seniors made back in 1965. I'm here to tell you that Americans
deserve more than rhetoric and scare tactics. Americans deserve
a good drug prescription plan. They deserve to be able to get
prescription drug coverage without being forced to join an HMO.
And this bill does just that. It is designed to provide choice,
not coercion," said Murkowski, during the debates over Medicare
reform. - Read
more... Ketchikan: Assembly Takes Action After 8 Hour Work Session
- The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly on Saturday voted
to seek a $2.1 million bond to complete the Schoenbar Middle
School renovation. - Read more... |
Ketchikan: 
Kanayama, Japan: Sister
City Gift - Penny Hamlin, visiting Kanayama, Japan, presents
Dave Rubin's famous "Tunnel Print" to Kanayama's Superintendent
of Schools, Mr. Osamu Shimizu, on the occasion of his upcoming
retirement, March 1st, 2004. - Read
more...
Ketchikan: PeaceHealth
Welcomes Wilson Clinic - Beginning December 1, 2003, The
Wilson Clinic will become part of the PeaceHealth team. Peter
Rice, MD and Gena McKinley, MD will become PeaceHealth employed
physicians. They are in the process of recruiting a third Internal
Medicine Specialist to join their practice. David Hoeft, MD,
continues to provide services, locum tenens, approximately one
to two weeks per month while a permanent physician is sought.
Beginning March 1, 2004, Stacy Schulz, MD, will join William
Anthes, MD, in the Anthes Clinic. - Read
more... |
Alaska:
People of Ketchikan: Houghtaling
Teachers Carry On Tradition - Carrying on the 'Family Traditions'
of Houghtaling first graders entertaining the Pioneers, first
grade teachers Lee Skidmore, Joan Mogen, Mark O'Brien, and Jan
Haynes walked with their classes to the Pioneer's Home on Thursday,
November 20th, where the students performed some of their favorite
songs. - Read
more...
Medical: A new technique detects earliest signs of Alzheimer's in healthy people - Brain researchers would dearly love to reliably identify changes in brain structure and metabolism associated with early Alzheimer's disease -- before symptoms emerge. Such information would buy
precious time and perhaps permit potential therapies to delay
or even prevent the memory-robbing disease. Now, a new study
by NYU School of Medicine researchers brings this goal one step
closer to being realized. - Read
more...
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