Thu, Jun 21, 2007 -- 8:33 AM Corporate Healthcare or Local Control? The choice between corporate healthcare and local control is dividing residents of Marin County, who are locked in a bitter fight over the future of their community hospital. Activists say the only way to have patient-centered healthcare is through local decision-making, but as the program reports, many doctors and health officials argue that the only way to keep Marin General world-class may be to sell it. more
Mon, Jun 18, 2007 -- 8:33 AM Saving the Tri-Colored Blackbird There was a time when millions of tri-colored blackbirds flew the California skies. The red and white patches on the male's wings set them apart from more mundane blackbirds. In the last fifty years their population has plummeted to fewer than three-hundred thousand. Now, an unlikely coalition is working to save the species. Its members include farmers, environmentalists and government wildlife agencies. more
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