Rural doctors face rising costs from malpractice insurance
A writer notes doctors in rural areas confront higher malpractice premiums, with some GPs leaving towns like Tulelake for Montana. He cites Alturas and Surprise Valley as still serving patients, while fee hikes affect public costs. The piece links insurance to higher medical fees and juror-awarded judgments, then shifts to a personal anecdote about blackberry bushes and a failed harvest.
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Fort Bidwell
G.p.’S
Tulelake
Montana
Alturas
Surprise Valley
Orange County public works bids come in under estimates
Orange County supervisors awarded contracts as bids for capital improvements fall below engineering estimates for the first time in over two years. Projects include bridges on Trabuco Road and Del Obispo Street, La Pata Avenue extension, Cypress Library, Palm Valencia storm drain, Tustin Library, Red Hill fire station, Yorba Regional Park, and Yorba Cemetery protection work.
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Orange County
J. J. Smisek
Smisek
Trabuco Road
Aliso Creek
Palm Valencia
Placentia
Tustin
Civic Center
Red Hill
Construc
Rosie Beaird Black Leads Bellflower Team In Exhibition Loss
Bellflower girls faced the four member pro exhibition The Queen and Her Maids in a seven inning game. Rosie Beaird Black starred with strikes and power while Tina Nance and Sherry Black contributed. Bellflower scored their lone run on an error with a steal and first base hit. The fundraiser netted about 500 dollars for a team Hawaii trip.
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Bellflower Girls’ Softball Association
Queen
Press-Telegram
Tom Shaw
Rosie Beaird Black
Tina Nance
Sherry Black
Hawaii
Valuations May Reduce County Tax Hike in Orange County
Orange County may shield property owners from part of a planned 30 cent tax rate rise as assessed valuations rise. The 17.6 percent surge last year supports a potential $7.5 million boost to the budget, which could halve the proposed tax increase if the current trend continues.
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Orange County
Free LBCC May and June lecture series announced
Long Beach City College schedules free talks on inflation ecology and world geography. Dr Alonzo Baker will discuss inflation at Rogers Auditorium May 29 and June 5 12 and 19 at 730 pm.
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Long Beach City College
Mexico
Alaska
Southeast Asia
Alonzo Baker
Loma Linda University
Rogers Audi
Orange County Supervisor Warns Over Budget Pledge
On May 7, Orange County Supervisor Laurence Schmit said department heads must live within their budgets or be fired. He learned his own office is over budget with $12,000 red projected. County Administrative Officer Robert Thomas warned June 30 overspending by Supervisor Thomas Riley could hit $8,300. Schmit runs the largest operating budget among the five supervisors.
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Orange County
Laurence Schmit
Garden Grove
Schmit
Robert Thomas
Thomas Riley
Newport Beach
Thomas
Riley
Council OKs 3 appointees to boards and council
Long Beach City Council confirmed three appointments to the Long Beach Transportation Co. board the Park Commission and the Manpower Advisory Council. Joseph T. Brooks Jr. was named to the transportation board George Wong Jr. was appointed to the Park Commission and Ana Alonso was named youth representative on the Manpower Advisory Council.
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Long Beach Public Transportation Co
The
Park Commission
Manpower Advisory Council
Long Beach City
Joseph T. Brooks Jr
E. Andrews Drive
Planning Commission
John R. Mansell
Transportation Company
Denver
U.S. Commission On Civil Rights
George Wong Jr
911 E. San Antonio Drive
Wong
Edwin W. Wade
Ana Alanso
E. 15Th St
East Long Beach
Long Beach
Ms. Alonso
Alhambra Community Hospital
Conference of Christians and Jews Youth Council
26 year old postal rider plans cross country bicycle trip
Long Beach State student Andy Sninsky aims to pedal from Long Beach to Washington 120 to 150 miles daily to mark the nations bicentennial and the postal service. He will stop in Kansas City for a union convention and hopes to meet the Washington mayor and perhaps the President.
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Andy Sninsky
Sninsky
Long Beach State University
Queen Mary
Long Beach
American Postal Workers’ Union
District of Columbia
Postal Union Convention
Kansas City
Kan
Washington
White House
Cajon Pass
San Bernardino
Mojave Desert
Colorado
Texas
Lyndon Johnson
LBJ
Secret Service
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la Pata Avenue
Ortega Highway
Santa Ana Mountain Foothills
Cypress Library
Cypress Civic
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Stanton
Huntington Beach
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Olinda
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Eileen Beaird
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Debby Bevers
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America
Bob and
Marion
Auburn
Bancroft Auditorium
Centralia St
Lakewood
Milli
Cent Polley
Jacobern Library
Clark Ave
Charles Noah
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Singapore
Taiwan
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Don Brakenbury
Morehouse College
Atlanta
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