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Montana health officials are proposing to monitor and set standards for the charitable contributions that nonprofit hospitals make to justify their access to millions of dollars in tax breaks each …
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Peggy Dolla is as surprised as she is relieved. The 55-year-old resident of St. Charles, Illinois, had been fighting a $2,700 ambulance bill for nearly a year. Now, the amount …
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Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact and Jeff Cercone, PolitiFact promise: “I’m never going to raise the white flag and surrender. We’re going to beat this virus. We’re going to get it under …
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Suzanne Kennedy smokes marijuana, and says her Wisconsin roots mean she can handle alcohol, so earlier this year when a bartender in St. Paul, Minnesota, discovered the cannabinoid delta-8 THC. …
Hemp-derived Delta 8 skirts growing marijuana laws and health concerns. Read More
Jackson, Miss. In mid-September, Howard Sanders drove through potholed streets in a white Cadillac weighed down with water bottles on his way to a house in Ward 3, a neglected …
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