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WINNERS
1) Showing what will happen when women
rule the world, the Multnomah County Commission voted
last week to pay for birth control for county employees--a
benefit provided by just a third of the nation's employers.
2) John Kitzhaber got some welcome reinforcements
from an unlikely source: Republican lawmakers, who stood
behind the Guv's decision not to bend the rules of the Oregon
Health Plan and pay for a potentially life-saving liver-lung
transplant for a teenage girl with cystic fibrosis.
3) After reviewing research that says teenagers
are biologically programmed to sleep later than the rest
of us, school officials in the North Clackamas district
(which includes Clackamas, Milwaukie and Putnam high schools)
will shift the opening bell from 7:30 am to 8:45 am next
year.
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LOSERS
1) More internal bleeding at OHSU: Not only
are federal investigators probing allegations of Medicare
fraud, but its top two nephrologists have filed lawsuits
claiming they were pushed out. Time for the leeches?
Hold the phone! State
2) regulators scored a victory over US
West, forcing the phone company to release internal
data about order delays and waiting times to get through
to the business office. The info--which US West tried to
paint as a trade secret--will be posted to the Internet
(www.puc.state.or.us) next month.
3) D.B. Cooper fans, harboring the hope that
their favorite hijacker parachuted to safety in 1971, are
still reeling from the news that the FBI thinks his skull
may have been stashed in a cardboard box inside an elderly
woman's Nebraska garage.
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