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ALBANY—More lower income families would be eligible for the Family Health Plus program by removing depreciation of business assets from income eligibility calculations under legislation passed by the state Senate and sent to the Assembly.
“Programs like Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus have kept hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers healthy by making insurance [...]

BILL CLINTON: (JOINED IN PROGRESS) … given me a key to the city of Independence.
(APPLAUSE) I’ll try not to open too many unwarranted doors tonight, but I like having a key.
Senator Jolie Justus, County Executive Mike Sanders, thank you for being here.
(APPLAUSE)
I have a lot of friends in this audience. I want to recognize one. [...]

Glennette Scott was horrified when her daughter Brianna, 3 years old, started picking fights, throwing chairs and having emotional meltdowns in preschool. Anxious and upset, Ms. Scott searched the Internet and asked school officials for help with her daughter; she sometimes seemed like “a ticking time bomb,” Ms. Scott says, because her outbursts were so [...]