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Advantage, whom?

Medicare Advantage has enticed seniors to enroll, but the healthcare provided may not pay off with the promises pitched

Op-Ed: Distillery Tax Increment Finance District must account for environmental justice

No added air and water pollution requiring new state or federal permits should be allowed in the Southside through the TIF. Definitely no carbon dioxide pipelines or carbon capture/sequestration equipment should be allowed because those could be a direct health and safety threat to the surrounding low-income and racial-minority neighborhoods.

New WTVP chairman John Wieland says he’s sorry

WCBU reports local businessman says he has a plan to restore ‘trust and enthusiasm’ in public television station. He says 11 board members resigned ‘not because the board didn’t do what they were supposed to do when the misuse was identified. They did the appropriate steps. But the optics were not healthy’