Next year, millions of Medicare enrollees will see their premiums jump from $104.90 to $159.30, a stunning 52-percent increase.

Today’s bureaucratic premium setting is inherently defective. Real market-driven Medicare reform based on expanded patient choice, cost-cutting competition, and defined contribution financing would be much better for America’s seniors.

FUNDING DILEMMA: Nevada is facing legal trouble over its education savings accounts that allow for parents to spend their child’s share of education spending on programs of their choice. (SHUTTERSTOCK)

Earlier this summer Nevada made national headlines by introducing its Education Savings Account (ESA) plan. The plan allows nearly every parent to send the money the state would normally spend on their child’s public education to whichever learning opportunity they see fit: online classes, private tutors, private schools… A universal school voucher program, if you will.

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On September 9, 2015.Age 80.Of Oaklyn. Loving mother of Robin Craig. Also survived by her 5 grandsons, 1 granddaughter and 5 great grandchildren.Predeceased by her sons, Charles and Leonard; daughter, Theresa DiAntonio.

Anne worked for several years as a waitress with the Diamond Diner in Cherry Hill before her retirement.

Relatives and friends are invited to her visitation on Thursday from 5 pm to 6 pm at the McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth St., Gloucester City, followed by a Memorial Service at 6 pm. Interment will be held privatelyat a later date.

Condolences and Memories may be shared at www.mccannhealey.com under the obituary of Anne M. Wallach. Funeral Arrangements and Inquiries through: McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City. Ph: 856-456-1142

Reminder for the week: Purchase your 2015/2016 Delaware hunting license now

DOVER (Sept. 11, 2015) – To achieve public compliance through education and enforcement actions that help conserve Delaware’s fish and wildlife resources and ensure safe boating and public safety, DNREC Division of Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police officers between Aug. 31-Sept. 6 made 2,496 contacts with anglers, boaters, hunters and the general public, including 638 vessel boardings for boating safety and fishing regulation compliance checks. Officers responded to 96 complaints and issued 93 citations, two of which were related to the C&D Canal Conservation Area and associated recreational trail, where there is an increased Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police presence.

In upper Northwest Washington, marijuana buds the size of zucchinis hang drying in a room once reserved for yoga. In the Shaw neighborhood, pot grown in a converted closet sits meticulously trimmed, weighed and sealed in jars. Elsewhere, from Georgetown to Capitol Hill to Congress Heights, seven-leafed weeds are flowering in bedrooms, back yards and window boxes.

Welcome to the first crop of legal pot in the nation’s capital — where residents may grow and possess marijuana but are still forbidden to sell it.

In recent weeks, a small army of mostly novice gardeners who took up growing when the District legalized marijuana in February have begun to roll, pack and smoke the joints, bongs and bowls of their labor. By one estimate, they have collectively grown upward of 100 pounds with a street value north of a half-million dollars — far more than most of these amateur cultivators are likely to consume on their own.

All of which presents a thorny question for District leaders and police in a city where cultivation and possession are legal but sales are not: How the heck will all this pot get from those who have it to those who want it?

 

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Anyone familiar with science-fiction — from the terrifying Mechanical Hound of Fahrenheit 451 to the sleek war machines of Iron Man 2 — can point to plenty of reasons why drones carrying weapons could be a terrible idea.

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(September 10, 2015) – The Camden County Freeholder Board will prohibit pet stores operating in Camden County from selling animals from breeders operating inhumane puppy mills. Today, Norman’s Law was introduced to the public to eliminate a feeder system for puppy and kitten mills in pet stores in Camden County. Upon adoption the Freeholder Board will be only the fourth county governing body in the nation to utilize this model legislation.