Planned trip to Grand Ole Opry cancelled at welfare board
Roy Plocher a retarded county ward faced a welfare board decision against a $420 Nashville trip. After publicized reports, donations funded a camper bus tour by Tours Exceptionale Inc. Welfare director Herbert Duncan defended limiting big one time trips and preferred ongoing activities. He later left for a three week southwestern family vacation.
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DNR ends herbicide spraying in seven Minnesota counties
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will halt aerial herbicide spraying for brush control in state forests across seven northeastern counties Cook Itasca Koochiching St Louis Carlton Aitkin and Lake per Gov. Perpich demand. A reevaluation study on herbicide use is expected to finish by February while forestry chief Earl Adams notes law may require weed removal in some cases.
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Feds prepare first nationwide probe of Medicaid fraud
A federal inquiry targets Medicaid waste as computers flag suspected fraud, including six tonsillectomies on one patient and an excessive daily pill claim. Inspectors general, prosecutors, and state officials will audit cases from the year ending last February amid estimated Medicaid losses of about one billion dollars.
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