Framing the Dialogue

Posts Tagged ‘pittsburgh tribune review’

Create-A-Right

There is a local story about the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (“UPMC”) who own most of the hospitals in the surrounding area.  They do not own all of the facilities, but they are getting there.  Even though they are a non profit organization,

You can always tell a true "grassroots" protest by the large crowds holding hand lettered signs.

they are still a business and have to make some unpopular decisions.  A few months ago UPMC announced that it was closing one of its hospitals that did not have enough patients to make it viable.

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I Am From the Government and I Am Here to Help – Part 1

Part 1 – UNIVERSAL PAIN

In these tough economic times there are daily gloom and doom headlines about a recession or that we may be heading into a depression.  A common phrase that politicians and newsreaders like to use is something like “we are facing an economy that may be as bad as the Great Depression.”

Be very careful when politicians and newsreaders agree on a storyline.  It usually means that you will lose some freedom or at least some money. 

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