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Patient advocates laud Trump’s new healthcare accountability, transparency rule

(The Center Square) – The Trump administration’s final rule on “Transparency in Coverage” that intends to help fulfil the promise of healthcare affordability has been met favorably by advocacy groups as something that will bring accountability to healthcare and lower costs for Americans. Founder and chairman of PatientRightsAdvocate.org Cynthia A. Fisher told The Center Square that the Trump administration “took a transformative step to lower health care costs, stop overcharges, and hold insurers and hospitals accountable,” by its Transparency in Coverage (TiC) final ...

County students touring CCCTC

LISBON — Eighth-grade students across Columbiana County are touring the Columbiana County Career Technical Center (CCCTC) this week. CCCTC Student Services Administrator Shannon Rabovsky said that students from all nine of the CCCTC’s partner school districts, which include United Local, ...

Can $1 billion power Republicans to victory in the midterms?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough to fend off sweeping losses as the party reckons with President Donald Trump’s unpopularity, persistent cost concerns and the fallout from the war in Iran. The cash advantage, spread out across a half-dozen groups, is driven largely by the Trump-aligned MAGA Inc., which had nearly $416 million in cash on hand at the end of August and began stepping up its spending on critical races in September. But that money may have ...

New Cumberland adjusting municipal election schedule

NEW CUMBERLAND - New Cumberland Council has taken steps to realign the city’s election schedule in order to meet changes to state law. Council met in regular session Monday, where it voted, 5-0, on the second reading of an ordinance adjusting the terms of office for current ...

Alito says Supreme Court can’t stem emergency appeals and voices concern over Trump’s rhetoric

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the escalating volume of emergency appeals before the court isn’t a good thing, but he adds there’s little the court can do to change the trajectory. The number of petitions asking the justices to intervene quickly has skyrocketed during President Donald Trump’s second administration, putting the court at the center of hotly debated issues such as the Republican president’s new ballroom construction and his proposed restrictions on mail ballots in the midterm elections. The number of emergency applications now rivals ...