Must Reads | Governors only succeed about half the time in passing legislative proposals they push for in their annual address. | Hydraulic fracking holds so much promise for generating inexpensive, relatively clean energy. But first, we need to figure out how to regulate it. | Volunteers account for most firefighters, and starting in 2015, departments will have to pay for their health insurance. If nothing changes, some warn that departments will limit volunteers' hours or even cut their positions to avoid closing. |
News in Numbers -43 Wind chill (in Fahrenheit) for Rochelle, Ill., one of the lowest recorded in the United States. The polar vortex has forced Minnesota and Chicago to close schools and Indianapolis to ban driving to keep people out of the life-threatening weather.MORE NUMBERS |
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| While the nation’s attention was focused on the troubled rollout of the federal health care site under the Affordable Care Act, the problems with the unemployment sites have pointed to something much broader: How a lack of funding in many states and a shortage of information technology specialists in public service jobs routinely lead to higher costs, botched systems and infuriating technical problems that fall hardest on the poor, the jobless and the neediest. |
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ADVERTISEMENT More News & CommentaryAs many young people switch to their parents’ plans, university-sponsored plans are losing money, forcing colleges to rethink how (and whether they should) offer health coverage. Outdated laws and overly formal procedures for public meetings are eroding trust in government. There are better ways than three minutes at the microphone. |