UPDATE — 10:31 PM ET, 10/02/13: From the Wall Street Journal[1]: About 200 patients each week with rare or especially severe diseases seek treatment at the [National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md], and the federal agency Tuesday began turning away patients for next week. About 30 of these are children, many suffering from cancer. “We’ve had to tell people, ‘I’m sorry, you can’t come here,’ ” said NIH Director Francis S. Collins. In addition, Dr. Collins said in an interview, 73% of NIH employees were sent home on furlough. Many of them are trainees and younger employees whose financial resources already are stretched thin, Dr. Collins said. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor [2](R-Va) responded by introducing a bill that would restore funding to the NIH, but it was rejected by Democrats who are not going to let House Republicans pick and choose which portions of government remain open: “I would like to guarantee that the people who are suffering, not getting treatment at the NIH c ...
Aside from right-to-work, perhaps the most heated debate in Michigan last year was over the controversial emergency manager legislation. Essentially, as opponents...
