Monday, March 15, 2010
Sick, uninsured and in debt: One man's health care crisis
One afternoon, Kirk Miller, a 26-year-old with an easy smile and a quick wit, sat at his coffee table trying to make sense of the medical debt he has accumulated in the last few years. Dozens of medical bills were strewn across the table. More bulged from an accordion folder with the heft of a bowling ball bag that he lugs around his modest rental home. - 8:47 am
Bobb's goal for DPS: 98% will graduate
The $540M academic plan Robert Bobb will unveil tonight calls for rigorous achievement standards, offering college-level courses within all high schools and boosting graduation and attendance rates beyond the state average. - 8:52 am
Detroit union wants fewer cuts
Leaders of the city's largest union are taking their beef with Mayor Dave Bing to the City Council on Wednesday to pitch a deficit-saving plan and demand an apology. - 8:37 am
Avondale High students searched after threat found
Auburn Hills -- Students at Avondale High School were searched this morning following the discovery of a note that suggested a student planned to bring a weapon to the school today. - 8:57 am
Lady Gaga sets date to play The Palace
Good news, little monsters: Your queen is returning. Lady Gaga will perform at The Palace of Auburn Hills on Sept. 4, the singer's camp announced this morning. - 9:07 am
Ex-Lion Larry Foote set to rejoin Steelers
Linebacker Larry Foote, who played with the Lions last season, is set to return to his old team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Foote flew to Pittsburgh in hopes of finalizing a three-year contract. - 8:42 am
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- LIONS: Lions hope another trade can solve backup QB issue
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- Obama heads to Ohio looking for health care votes - 08:47 AM
- Gov't says it cannot explain runaway Toyota - 07:40 AM
- Rain damage, detours hinder commutes in Northeast - 07:59 AM
- US census forms arrive in the mail: What to expect - 06:41 AM
Michigan
- Thieves steal man's van, pants in Flint, Mich. - 08:26 AM
- Never-used tax break could help rebuild Motown - 08:14 AM
- AAA Michigan: State gas prices up 2.5 cents - 07:56 AM
- Financial manager to present new academic plan - 05:41 AM
- Livingston animal shelter extends adoption time, may drop 'bully breed' ban
- Michigan developing plan to improve foster care
- Mich. must offer plan for housing aid
- Last chance to vote in Let's Save Michigan contest
Family's innovative 'Amish Night' takes unexpected turn
Neal Rubin: David and Angel Sampson are involved and inventive parents who've come up with a number of notions involving kids that seem worth borrowing. Amish Night is not one of them, unless your idea of a valuable back-to-basics experience involves a flaming toilet. - 1:00 am
- Detroit program a job springboard to new jobs, workers
- Keys to getting a raise
- Avoiding 'Streep Syndrome' work snubs
Clean diesels bring a mess of decisions
Brian J. O'Connor: A clean diesel car can be good for the environment -- but will it end up cleaning out your wallet? With mileage that can be as much as one-third better than comparable gasoline engines -- hitting more than 40 mpg on the highway -- clean diesel engines can take a big bite out of your car's carbon footprint. - 1:00 am
- ESPN's Erin Andrews' stalker to get sentence today
- Juarez drug gang blamed for killing 3 with ties to U.S. consulate
- Rain damage, flooding hinder those in Northeast
- Yemen launches new airstrikes on al-Qaida hideout
Avalanche kills at least 2 on Canadian mountain
Revelstoke, British Columbia -- An avalanche that killed at least two people at an informal snowmobile rally in Canada's Rocky Mountains may have been triggered by three daredevil sledders who apparently unleashed a deadly wall of snow on up to 200 people below, witnesses said Sunday. - 1:00 am
- Dem support lags for health care vote in House
- Edwards' mistress calls presidential run 'reckless'
- Pelosi: Confident House will pass health care bill
- Efforts to lengthen state's term limits seem stalled
Dodd to get GOP input on financial regulations
Washington -- The senator trying to rewrite the nation's financial industry rules is dropping plans to create a stand-alone consumer financial protection agency and give a single regulator the power to oversee all banks, according to people familiar with the evolving proposal. Backing away from the proposal he offered four months ago, the chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee is now incorporating GOP ideas. Sen. - 1:00 am
- Don't put off dealing with unpaid medical bills
- Israeli organ donation plan resisted
- Heart disease treatments for diabetics fail to reduce risks
- Dr. Paul Donohue: A person can be saved even if both of the lungs collapse
Study: Clip rivals heart-valve surgery
Atlanta -- Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer than surgery, and nearly as effective, doctors reported Sunday. - 1:00 am
- FCC proposes major push for access to high-speed Internet
- Survey: Readers don't want to pay for news online
Amazon dumps Colo. affiliates after state demands it collects sales taxes
Last week, blogger Kristie McNealy, along with at least 4,000 others like them, lost a chunk of their business when Amazon.com announced it was cutting ties with its Colorado-based affiliate marketers -- Web sites and bloggers that help it sell products. - 8:12 am
- Give back parts of Detroit to county
- What's solution for Toyota's flaw?
- Amber Arellano: Detroit teacher union president all talk, no results for kids
- Taxes will sustain Sterling Hts. quality
Editorial: Michigan in no position to open state-owned bank
Some Democratic politicians have seized on the idea of opening a state-owned bank to inject more money into Michigan's slumbering economy. It could make loans to businesses and university students, buy down small banks' endangered mortgages, maybe even issue low-interest credit cards, under proposals launched by Senate Democrats and would-be gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero. - 1:00 am
