Do you ever need to find information from another’s state’s Attorney General’s office? Here are links to each of them:
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
USA.gov is the main portal to all other U.S. government Web sites. It’s a great starting point for any federal information you need. Here is the description from the site:
Whatever you want or need from the U.S. government, it’s here on USA.gov.
Our Vision
As the U.S. government’s official web portal, USA.gov makes it easy for the public [...]
We are in the midst of some very bad legislative proposals, both in Washington and in Austin. Whether you’re concerned about the loss of Medicare (Washington) or passage of a corporate immunity bill (Austin), you should contact your representatives and make your concerns known.
There is a handy site for Texas who want to know who [...]
Years ago I posted a link to the Constitution of the United States. Recent political discussions have prompted me to post another link — this one to the Bill of Rights. If you haven’t read it recently perhaps you should.
Print media sources widely covered an announcement last week that the Obama Administration was partnering with hospitals, insurers and other groups in order to reduce medical errors. Most sources considered the move a positive for the Administration.
The Los Angeles Times reports, “The Obama administration announced a broad new initiative Tuesday to reduce medical errors, partnering [...]
The AP reports, “The Food and Drug Administration is laying out plans to update the 35-year-old system used to approve most medical devices.” Notably, the “agency announced a series of changes it plans to make this year, including streamlining the review process for some low-risk devices,” although “regulators said they will delay a decision on [...]
This is a decision I would have expected from the previous Administration, but not from the current one. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has reversed a decision it made last month. The original decision was for a recall of sets of Wizard of Oz drinking glasses because they contained up to 1000 times the federal [...]
I’ve written about the ridiculously high cost of homeowners insurance in Texas many times, most recently this November 18. Now the Beaumont Enterprise has published an editorial on this subject, and I completely agree with the newspaper. Here are excerpts:
When the Legislature convenes in January, it has to do more than agree with fed-up consumers [...]
A recent article about Medicaid in the Houston Chronicle repeated some of the political musings of Governor Rick Perry and other politicians. For anyone with even a basic knowledge of Medicaid, the suggestion that Texas could simply “opt-out” is ridiculous.
Of course that doesn’t stop politicians from proposing it, and thereby frightening the poor, the elderly, [...]
Bloomberg News reported that the national insurance member group America’s Health Insurance Plans, armed the US Chamber of Commerce with $86.2 million “that was used to oppose the health-care overhaul law.” Bloomberg notes, “The spending reflects the insurers’ attempts to influence the bill, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will provide coverage to 32 million [...]
I knew they couldn’t keep us in second place for long. Now “insurance company friendly” Texas is number one in the nation again for highest homeowners insurance rates. Florida edged ahead of us for a brief time, but the almost total lack of regulation in Texas let us reclaim our rightful spot at the top [...]
As I’ve written before, there will be no cost-of-living increase in Social Security benefits in 2011. This is the second year in a row with no increase. Of course the reason is that inflation did not rise enough to trigger an automatic increase.
The actual rule is a bit complicated: the COLA is determined by comparing [...]
Medicare fraud is a huge problem in the United States, as I’ve written about several times before. The good news is that Congress finally seems to be figuring this out — probably because of the federal budget situation. Whatever the reason, any exposure of this situation is good, and Iowa Senator Charles Grassley is calling [...]
Under the new administration in Washington federal agencies are taking a tougher stance, weighted more toward consumer protection, than in the recent past. One example is the enforcement provisions of the 2008 Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. And of course the agency is getting push-back from manufacturers, who want their products to be exempt from [...]
As further evidence the new administration in Washington is taking a greater interest in consumer safety, the Transportation Department has toughened its safety standards for vehicle testing. Getting a coveted five-star rating is going to be considerably more difficult now. The hope is that this will spur manufacturers to improve the safety of their autos [...]
The New York Times reported, “The diet drug Meridia is being withdrawn from the market because it can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.” Meridia’s manufacturer, Abbott Laboratories, “said on Friday that it was taking the action voluntarily but under pressure from the Food and Drug Administration.” The “withdrawal of Meridia, also known [...]
The official announcement as to whether there will be a cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) to Social Security benefits for 2011 will come later in October. But as the situation stands now, the odds are good there will not be an adjustment. That would be two years in a row with no benefits increase.
The COLA calculations are complicated [...]
The Food and Drug Administration announced last Friday that the diet drug Meridia is being taken off the market. This follows literally years of complaints that Meridia increases the risks of heart attacks and strokes for those people taking the drug.
Robert Langreth, in his blog at Forbes.com, presents an excellent viewpoint of the changes in [...]
This is all the proof we need that the Food & Drug Administration is becoming more active: the agency is taking on companies that manufacture and market mouthwash, and insisting they quit making unsupported medical claims about their products. The story was reported at length in the Los Angeles Times. Here are excerpts:
The Food and [...]
Have you ever wondered whether the nine digits in your Social Security number have any meaning or whether they’re just totally random? The answer to this and to every other question you could ever dream of asking about Social Security numbers can be found in a report prepared by the Social Security Administration.
I’ll answer that [...]
