As I was talking recently with the founder of a large American corporation, the conversation turned (inevitably) to health care reform. His employees in their 20s, on average, cost the company about $1,500 a year in health bills. Those in their 50s cost at least 10 times more. The effect of proposed health care reform - which limits the ability of insurers to charge higher premiums for older adults - would be, he said, a large shift of America's health care burden to the younger generation. ...more

November 4, 2009

Billy Joe Shannon, a local Democratic activist campaigning for his party's local candidates and presidential ticket, got up about 5:30 a.m. Friday and let "Romeo," his poodle, out into his front yard on Mackerel Drive. ...more

September 28, 2008