Gays Will Be Able to Marry in D.C. Starting March 9

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Barring any last minute successes by the bigots who are doing everything they can to stop equality from being recognized in the nation’s capital, gay couples will be soon be able to apply for licenses and marry there.
D.C. Wire reports: “Council member David Catania, the bill’s sponsor, has a countdown clock on his website to [...]

Still Needed

NY Times Published: February 20, 2010
Here is another chilling indicator of how Americans are struggling in the recession: In June 2009, some 46.9 million people were enrolled in Medicaid programs throughout the country, nearly 3.3 million more than in the previous June. That is the biggest one-year increase ever, according to a survey just released [...]

Republicans and Medicare

By PAUL KRUGMAN
NY Times Published: February 11, 2010
“Don’t cut Medicare. The reform bills passed by the House and Senate cut Medicare by approximately $500 billion. This is wrong.” So declared Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, in a recent op-ed article written with John Goodman, the president of the National Center for Policy [...]

SAGE Awarded $900 k Federal Grant

Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders (SAGE) has been awarded a three-year, $900,000 grant to create the first and only national resource center on LGBT aging.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the grant today, saying “The Resource Center will provide information, assistance and resources for both mainstream aging organizations and LGBT organizations [...]

High blood pressure linked to dementia

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From MSNBC
If the cardiologist’s warnings do not scare you, consider this: Controlling blood pressure just might be the best protection yet known against dementia.
In a flurry of new research, scientists scanned people’s brains to show hypertension fuels a kind of scarring linked to later development of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Those scars can start [...]

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