Safeway's Health Plan

As lawmakers debate healthcare in Washington D.C., businesses across America are wondering how the promised legislation will affect their bottom lines. One CEO is charging into the debate. He hopes that, rather than nationalize healthcare, Congress will consider what his company, Safeway Incorporated, has done to hold its per capita healthcare expenses flat over the past four years. This includes expenses for both employer and employee. During the same time period, these costs for corporate America as a whole have risen forty percent.

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Jun 22,2009, 12:25PM

"Safe Schools" Czar

By Penna Dexter

One of President Obama's appointments needs to be discussed... with parental discretion advised. The president has tapped Kevin Jennings to be Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. Jennings will operate as a sort of Safe Schools Czar. Safe for whom? In particular, for open homosexuals and transgendered students.

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Jun 16,2009, 8:44AM

We Should Not Centralize Education

By Penna Dexter

Recently forty-six states and the District of Columbia announced an effort to establish common standards for what children should learn each year, from kindergarten through high school. This push towards a national yardstick is led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. Once the standards are agreed upon, participation is supposed to be voluntary. But for how long? Only the governors of Texas, Alaska, Missouri, and South Carolina have not signed on and three of these leaders are known skeptics of national mandates.

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Jun 01,2009, 12:07PM

Defunding Planned Parenthood

By Penna Dexter

When the movie Juno received four Academy Award nominations and actually won the Oscar for best screenplay, former Planned Parenthood President Gloria Feldt was worried. In the film, Juno, a pregnant teenager, decides against an abortion partially due to her experience at an abortion clinic. Ms. Feldt admits, "The clinic in Juno is terrible." But, she adds: "It's a terribly untru...

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