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Artists with disabilities to showcase their work later this year in Phoenix
Photographers with disabilities will get an opportunity to showcase their work in downtown Phoenix this year in the ninth annual art competition as part of the city’s efforts to promote disability awareness.The competition will take place on Nov. 7 at…
Medicare paid millions to prisoners
Food stamps. Free meals. Cable TV. Unemployment and disability benefits. And now prescription drugs. It’s a good time to be in prison, where inmates are mistakenly receiving tens of millions of dollars in benefits at taxpayer expense. The latest folly comes compliments…
US says Social Security computer outage to affect HealthCare.gov
The Obama administration on Monday said people hoping to enroll in health coverage for March 1 may have trouble applying by Saturday’s deadline because of a planned 62-hour maintenance shutdown of a Social Security Administration computer system. The U.S. Centers for…
ALERT! Now Social Security Is Also Shutting Down On February 15th-18th!
Still thinking about applying for obamacare? You may have trouble making the March 1 deadline. The Social Security 4-day shutdown will affest the health”care” enrollment page. Not to mention that this is incredibale timing. Banks are supposed to do a viral…
Olympians of Social Security; Feb. 11 is Safer Internet Day
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — While the eyes of the world focus on the XXII Winter Olympics in the resort town of Sochi, Russia this month, we’d like to bring your attention to another worthy focal point: internet safety. February 11 is…
Identity thieves on the prowl during tax season
It’s the time of the year during which millions of Americans sharpen their pencils, dig out their calculators and rifle their files for W-2 forms, bank statements and receipts. It’s also the time in which identity thieves try to intercept the…
New Medicare guidelines will cost Bay Area Hospital $300,000 in 2014
COOS BAY — New, stricter guidelines from Medicare brought on by the Affordable Care Act have more than a thousand hospitals nationwide feeling financial strain. Bay Area Hospital is no different. The hospital will lose up to $300,000 in Medicare funding…
Senator promotes financial aid office to add disclosure statements
For several student borrowers wishing to attend college, taking out student loans may be the biggest financial transaction they have encountered at 18 years old. Tony Fiorentino, Illinois Student Senator and graduate student, fears that these students might not have…
The end of government
Something strange is happening in Washington. We are slowly dismantling the federal government, even as its spending is growing larger. The paradox is that governmental competence is being systematically degraded while the government’s size, as measured by its budget, is…
Burr slams VA over lapse in disability compensation
Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, hammered the Department of Veterans Affairs for keeping soldiers waiting for their disability checks. In Saturday’s Republican weekly address, the ranking Republican on the Senate Veteran’s Affairs Committee scolded the VA for failing to deliver on its…