It’s been a frustrating year for supporters of single-payer health care reform—Medicare for all. They protested as their proposal, which they call the most comprehensive, humane, and economical solution to the health care mess, was sidelined from the get-go. Their jaws dropped as the House’s health care bill, which subsidizes the insurance industry by forcing almost everyone to buy insurance, with government help, was dubbed “socialist” and “fascist.”

Pay for local workers fails to match national growth
Average compensation goes up by 2.1 percent
By David Robinson
News Business Reporter
Buffalo News
Workers in the Buffalo Niagara region are feeling the squeeze in their pay.
The average compensation per job in the Buffalo Niagara region grew by 2.1 percent last year, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Sarah Palin wins: 'Death panels' declared 'Lie of the Year'
Erika Bolstad | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's claim about so-called "death panels" has landed her on the political equivalent of Santa's naughty list: PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year."

By MIKE SPECTOR And SARAH MCBRIDE
Citadel Broadcasting Corp., the third-largest radio broadcaster in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy over the weekend, the latest victim of the travails facing media companies.