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November 10th, 2009 by Cooper Levey-Baker in Arts, Editor's Desk, Music, News, Politics, Sarasota-Manatee
— This is just really, really dumb: “U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan told a Sarasota audience Monday that he voted against the health care reform bill because he thinks it will lead to rationed care and the government ‘pulling the plug’ on grandmothers to save money.” Puh. Leeze.
— It’s a rare story that makes me wish I was a middle-schooler again, but Christopher O’Donnell’s profile of a Bayshore High School class that teaches the history of hip-hop and also requires students to perform their own tracks does it. Unfortunately, methinks it can’t be long before some idiot who can’t stand the rap music launches a campaign to get the program shut down.
— “In a 40-page strategic plan released Monday, Nov. 9, Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight identifies five major goals that will guide the sheriff’s office for the next five years.”
November 10th, 2009 at 11:07 am
It’s too bad the Herald-Tribune couldn’t find a better source to dispute Buchanan’s claim. The AARP isn’t a source for fact checking.
Pulling the plug is a bit of a stretch, but the House bill would lead to rationed care.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:52 am
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