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We have got Fox Team Coverage tonight, bret baer is on deck but we begin with Jillian Turner live on capitol hill and chief National Correspondent ed henry, host of a brandnew show every saturday and sunday at noon eastern on fox. We start with you. Your initial reaction to what we saw today . I talked to three Senior Republicans who said they were a little on edge about how this would turn out but these republicans around the house leadership are now giddy. You have Top Democrats great thing, one senior democratic aide telling the Washington Post they had no bombshells, no major revelations a...

Carolina Journal reports: A coal miners’ son. A powerful attorney. A defeated surgeon. Two college sweethearts.   All of them became caught up in a powerful system known as Certificate of Need. Certificate of Need laws give the state control of medical resources. Twenty-five people, an advisory board appointed by the governor, oversee the supply of hospital beds, medical equipment, and a host of other resources.   In theory, the system is supposed to guard patients’ access to health care.   But the system offers a wealth of opportunities to crush unwanted competition and hamstring...

speak on the record.   “It’s human nature, so I shouldn’t be surprised, but I have clients who think it’s unconstitutional, it’s terrible, it’s an unfair restraint on trade,” said a CON attorney. “But once they get it, CON is great, it’s saving money, it’s good for the people. It’s incredible the metamorphosis they undergo.”  THE FIGHTER  Dr. Jay Singleton sometimes says he’s not the right man for the job.  Singleton is the son of coal miners. He spent his childhood crisscrossing Appalachia in a trailer, always in search of another dying non-union mine. The go...

Then & Now: Brittan Square Fire Barn, Burncoat Street, Worcester Some called it the "fire barn," a casual term that faded with the memory of horse-drawn fire equipment. The original fire house at 19 Burncoat St. in Worcester, built in 1893 to serve the Lincoln and Burncoat streets section of the city, was mostly called the Adams Square Fire House in the early days. And then, for reasons not clear, there was a name change: The area became Brittan Square, as it remains known. The Brittan Square Fire Station — OK, barn, for our nostalgic readers — remained in service through the mid-...