The city of St. Petersburg, Florida, is allocating $1 million from an opioid settlement to nonprofit organizations working to address the opioid crisis through treatment and recovery support services. As part of the settlement, St. Petersburg will receive $6 million over 18 years. The city is looking to fill resource or service gaps in the…
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News Anthony Volpe says Jazz Chisholm Jr already providing ‘juice and energy’ in Yankees clubhouse: ‘He’s a baller’
Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed up to Fenway Park in Boston at 5:41 p.m. on Sunday night to play for his new team, the New York Yankees, with a 7:10 p.m. first pitch on the schedule. Yankees GM Brian Cashman struck a trade with the Miami Marlins for the versatile Chisholm, and he was in the…
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News Vulnerable Senate Democrat silent about Biden admin providing veteran medical resources to illegal immigrants
An effort by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) process health care treatment for illegal immigrants despite a growing backlog of U.S. veterans led to uproar among several lawmakers, but one notable Democrat has been tight-lipped about the matter. So far, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has been…
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News North Carolina expands Medicaid coverage, providing health care hundreds of thousands in need
A decade after the federal government began offering expanded Medicaid coverage in states that opted to accept it, hundreds of thousands of adults in North Carolina are set to receive benefits, a development that boosters say will aid hospitals and local economies in addition to the long-term uninsured. North Carolina elected officials agreed this year…
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