Small businesses urged to join program to provide health insurance for employees
KFSM Ft. Smith-Fayetteville
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Insure Oklahoma program is getting a boost from health officials who say it represents the best way to provide medical coverage to uninsured Oklahomans.
Being Morgan Stanley With Stock Up 50% Means JPMorgan Debt Wins
Bloomberg
April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Being Morgan Stanley is a struggle between bond investors who expect the worst and shareholders who say the best is yet to come.
Sun tumbles as IBM talks fail, outlook uncertain - Reuters
Guardian Unlimited
Credit default swaps insuring Sun's debt jumped to around 143 basis points, or $143,000 per year for five years to insure $10 million in debt, from around 95 basis points on Friday, according to Markit Intraday.
GM sees bankruptcy risk
Washington Post
WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors warned on Tuesday there was a rising chance it could file for bankruptcy by June as Fiat and Chrysler executives met in a race to complete a tie-up the U.S. government has said Chrysler needs to...
Insure Montana: Best option for state health-care spending?
Montana Standard
HELENA — As the budget knife prepares to fall on most new proposals at the Legislature, one health-care item is trying to escape it: A $6 million-a-year increase for Insure Montana, to subsidize employee health insurance for several hundred...
Small businesses urged to join program to provide health insurance for ...
KFOR
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Insure Oklahoma program is getting a boost from health officials who say it represents the best way to provide medical coverage to uninsured Oklahomans. The dean of the University of Oklahoma College of Public Healt...
Former AIG CEO criticizes successors, bailout
Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- The man who built insurance giant American International Group Inc. from a startup to a global behemoth said he didn't mismanage the company _ but the government did.
Oklahoma bill offers nuclear power incentives
AP via Yahoo! Finance
More than 25 years after Oklahoma's only nuclear power plant proposal ended in failure, state lawmakers are touting nuclear power as an alternative energy source with legislation that would streamline the state permitting process for a nucl...
UN climate talks stall over emissions cuts by rich
AP via Yahoo! News
Negotiators at U.N. climate talks, buoyed by U.S. promises to lead the fight against global warming, are demanding that industrial countries pledge deeper cuts in greenhouse gases over the next decade.
Snuff out unenforceable smoking ban
The Union Democrat
In the midst of California’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, you would think our legislators would be working 24/7 to stabilize the state’s perilously balanced budget and install safeguards to insure against future crises...
Courthouse Bonding Decision Will Not Cost State
The Kentucky Post
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A new requirement that construction managers on 35 state courthouse projects insure the entire value of their work will not increase the state's costs, an attorney investigating the projects said.
Gates Proposes Big Shift in Pentagon Spending
Time Magazine
The Defense Secretary has unveiled a budget that shifts spending from costly Cold War-era weapons to those tapered to winning today's wars. His first battle will be to convince Congress
Employed, unemployed could both face no insurance
AP via Yahoo! Finance
North Carolina's unemployment rate is at its highest level on record, and with it are concerns that tens of thousands of workers -- both employed and unemployed -- will lose employer-subsidized health insurance.
