The state and federal government have inked a new deal for supplemental Medicaid funds, but what does it mean for rural hospitals?
THIS WEEK: The state and federal government have inked a new deal for supplemental Medicaid funds – but rural hospitals will suffer from the fine print. "While on the surface it’s good news that the waiver is being renewed, there’s some real minefields," said Don McBeath, director of government affairs at the Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals. "We’ve got a train wreck coming."
“I want to be a strange example of a black man,” Hancock says. “Growing up, you’re supposed to be into certain things, and I was, in a peripheral way, into hip-hop and things like sports. It was much stranger to want to retreat to your bedroom and draw pictures all night.”
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From the archives
Seeing Stars in Dripping Springs
In this story from 2014, editor Forrest Wilder travels to Dripping Springs, where the stars are still big and bright thanks to an aggressive effort to combat light pollution.
Dripping Springs was the first community in Texas – and the sixth in the world – to be certified a "Dark Sky Community" by the International Dark-Sky Association.
From the story: "Cassidy, who wears an International Dark-Sky Association pin on her red blouse, is a lighting nerd. She has two different light-meter apps on her phone. She carries a sample fixture called a Glarebuster in her car in case anyone wants a demonstration. Some people fight crime. Some people fight city hall. Cassidy fights light pollution."
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