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Agency seeks $300 million to bolster Medicaid

Agency seeks $300 million to bolster Medicaid

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Agency seeks $300 million to bolster Medicaid

News Staff
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is seeking a $300 million transfusion of funds to bolster the state’s Medicaid application process, The Texas Tribune reported.The public health insurance program provides coverage for people or families with limited income, as well as pregnant women...
Texans Settled Their Differences With Duels

Texans Settled Their Differences With Duels

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Texans Settled Their Differences With Duels

Bartee Haile
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Texas HistoryMortally wounded in a Christmas Eve duel at Gonzales, Virginian Reuben Ross survived the Battle of San Jacinto only to die on Christmas Day 1839.The deadly dispute began two months earlier, when Ross challenged Henry McCulloch, brother of the famous Ben, to a duel on behalf of an...
Agency seeks $300 million to bolster Medicaid

Agency seeks $300 million to bolster Medicaid

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Agency seeks $300 million to bolster Medicaid

News Staff
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is seeking a $300 million transfusion of funds to bolster the state’s Medicaid application process, The Texas Tribune reported.The public health insurance program provides coverage for people or families with limited income, as well as pregnant women...

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San Marcos ends Vidor Pirates’ season at 12-0-1

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024
5 years agoDecember 18, 2019:Despite a last minute surge in the number of Operation Blue Santa “Toys for Tots” Christmas Toy donation drive applicants, the Vidor Police Department’s annual Christmas Toy drive was a resounding success.
By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens

By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens

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Ask Rusty – About How Medicare Premiums Are Determined

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Dear Rusty: Please explain the Medicare premium increase based on income reported to Social Security?
By Bartee Haile

By Bartee Haile

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Mysterious Death of a Comic Genius

Bartee Haile
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Texas HistoryTed Healy, the comic genius behind “The Three Stooges,” kissed his wife and three-day old baby goodnight on Dec. 20, 1937 and headed for his favorite Hollywood haunts to celebrate the birth of his first child.The name on the future comedian’s birth certificate was “Ernest Lea Nash” or...

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Pirates to face Rattlers in state 3-A football quarterfinal game

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
5 years agoDecember 11, 2019:A highway construction projection contractor, working on a contract with the Texas Department of Transportation has begun installing some forty 150-foot tall, high mast lighting poles along I-10 from North Main Street to the foot of the Veteran’s Memorial Bridge...
Phelan drops bid for speaker; no clear winner yet

Phelan drops bid for speaker; no clear winner yet

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Phelan drops bid for speaker; no clear winner yet

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
AUSTIN—House Speaker Dade Phelan withdrew last week from seeking another term leading that chamber. After three rounds of voting on Saturday, state Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield emerged as the preference of most House Republicans.
Social Security Matters

Social Security Matters

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Social Security Matters

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American CitizensDear Rusty: In a recent article about Medicare’s “Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount” (IRMAA) and how IRMAA affects Social Security taxes, you described...
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