Medicare fee overhaul shifts pay toward family doctors
The proposed Medicare plan would raise payments for family doctors by about 13 percent starting next Jan. 1 while cutting fees for many specialists. Surgeons could face declines around 5 percent, with plastic surgeons and anesthesiologists seeing declines near 6 and 8 percent respectively.
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Fort Drum and Griffiss target of base closure list
Officials in the Fort Drum and Griffiss areas say closures are unlikely despite the Base Closure and Realignment Commission list. Fort Drum’s $1.2 billion expansion and Griffiss’s secure status are cited by locals and officials as reasons the bases will stay open, even as Plattsburgh Air Force Base also appears on the preliminary list.
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Thomas Haddad
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Dick Cheney
North Country
Weekend Weather Outlook for Clear Ad Town
Clear skies and cool air with a low around 50 degrees and light north winds tonight. Sunday brings mostly sunny skies with a high between 70 and 75 degrees.
Pontiff Returns to Poland in Historic Homecoming
Pope John Paul II landed in Poland for the first time since communism fell, kissing native soil as Lech Walesa Primate Jozef Glemp and thousands greet him. He praised a “new voice” of a sovereign nation and appealed for unity amid church abortion debate and political tensions.
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Federal regulators close Goldome Savings Bank in Syracuse sale
Regulators shut Goldome Savings Bank at 3 p.m. Friday after selling the troubled thrift to KeyCorp and First Empire State Corp. Key Bank takes five Syracuse branches, to reopen Monday. KeyCorp and First Empire will honor customer checks and may keep bad loans.
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