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Your tax dollars at work

Give the Beebe administration credit. Thanks to intrepid LR blogger Roby Brock, I see that the Health Department has a district-by-legislative district breakdown of what institutions would benefit from his health care/tobacco tax plan. It’s one of a number of links at this site.

Health spending misses substance abuse

Sen. Bill Pritchard, R-Elkins, is a long, long way from happy that the governor’s office is offering more than $85 million in proposed state taxpayer money for health spending and not adding any new spending for drug courts and substance abuse treatment. Addictions are a great threat to lives, Pritchard said, forcing the director of [...]

Health projects rolled out tomorrow

If I were a betting man, I’d bet that what the governor wants on health — trauma centers, the medical school, regional health, the works — gets presented at 10 a.m. in the Senate Public Health Committee. I’ll be doing some blogging from there if I’m right.