Consider health care reform as a factor when voting
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DAVE MORDO Guest Column
      Sen. Barack Obama promotes a plan to lower the country's health care costs enough to "bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family." His promise is that a health plan will be in place "by the end of my first term as president of the United States," at a cost of an estimated $65 billion in reinstated taxes to America's wealthier residents.
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Even in real life, good guys sometimes win the battle
GREG BEAN Coda
      I got the most wonderful note this week from Lori Ann Vendetti, one of the homeowners in Long Branch who has been fighting the good fight to keep her home from being taken by eminent domain to make way for high-priced condominiums.
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Oh no! It's almost time for school
LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet?
      School bells are about to ring. The youth of Clinchville might not want to face it, but suddenly there are pencil boxes all around us, and I'd like to state for the cause that it's not my fault.
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