Johns Hopkins Medical is partnering with Walgreens to create a new branch of the chain with healthier food and an amped-up health care clinic. The two groups will use the store to experiment with new ways of delivering medical care cheaply to local patients. The Baltimore Sun: “We see this as a sort of lab,” said Dr. Jay […]

Pennsylvania, which has the eighth-worst pension system in the country, is following Illinois (#1) by punting on reform. The budget passed by the legislature on Sunday does nothing for pensions; a fix will now have to wait for the fall session.The parallels with Illinois are striking. In both states, pension liabilities are higher than total annual revenues […]

The sleuths in charge of Turkey’s governing AK Party have been trying to figure out what sinister forces are responsible for the unrest in their country. Clearly, their own policies cannot be responsible; that must be obvious to a child. There must then be some hidden hand, some evil conspiracy leading people astray. Prime Minister […]

An Jung-geun is a national hero in South Korea. In 1909, at the dawn of Japan’s 35-year brutal colonial rule over the Korean peninsula, he killed former Japanese Prime Minister and then-Resident General of Korea Ito Hirobumi at Harbin Train Station in Heilongjiang province, China. He later wrote out 15 reasons why Ito Hirobumi deserved death, including […]

Britain’s National Health Service has had a pretty dismal track record lately. Earlier this year, we learned of truly abhorrent conditions at one UK hospital, followed quickly by another report revealing that a number of hospitals have been systematically covering up abuses. Now we hear that a fifth of all NHS employees have been the victim of bullying by […]

Several high ranking Muslim Brotherhood officials have resigned from the Egyptian government on the heels of yesterday’s army-issued ultimatum, culminating most recently in the Foreign Minister reportedly stepping down. Morsi himself has remained defiant, but his ability to stay in control looks shakier by the minute.How will this all end? With fast-changing situations like this, […]

Forty thousand San Franciscans accustomed to using the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) were left scrambling today as 2,300-plus BART workers are on strike. Labor contracts for these employees expired at midnight without a new deal in place, as the city and labor unions couldn’t agree on pay, pension contributions, and medical costs. The Mercury […]

Teachers in Tennessee will be granted fewer automatic salary increases, a move that education association head Gera Summerford says will strike at the very heart of the school system.Teachers were originally entitled to 21 minimum pay levels (increasing from their first to their twentieth year of teaching), across five levels of education (from bachelor’s to doctorate). […]

The people who, in the words of the Chinese Communist Global Times newspaper, “burned and destroyed vehicles, and wielded knives, madly slashing and killing police and innocent members of the public” in Xinjiang last week received training in Syria. In all, 35 people were killed in those attacks. Reports out of Xinjiang are unreliable, especially […]

New York state isn’t exactly rolling in money, but some of its politicians are. Several county lawmakers have been fudging their time cards in order to collect pensions, according to an investigation. Ordinarily, officials are required to work a full thirty hours every week in order to receive benefits such as pensions and health care, […]