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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday raised tuition and fees by 1.78% for the 2021-22 academic year — but still remains the lowest-priced among the state’s three largest universities.The action translates to an extra $168, from $9,424 to $9,592 a year, for in-state undergraduates taking a full-time load of 15 credit hours per semester for fall and spring.MTSU, which did not raise tuition in 2020-21 due to the pandemic .
That would have eliminated millions of dollars in supplemental Medicaid funding each year.
But Gateway kept its status under Illinois Senate Bill 1530, which was signed into law April 2 by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. It amended the Illinois Public Aid Code with a clause that didn t mention Gateway by name, but effectively added it to a list of hospitals allowed to continue in the state s safety-net program, despite not meeting some requirements.
Gateway CEO Bob Moore described the legislation as something of a lifesaver. If we got out of the safety-net program, this hospital would not be viable, he said Tuesday. We get about $8 million a year in funding from it.
Defiant Britons have today insisted they are not fazed by Europe s scaremongering against the AstraZeneca vaccine, as they backed the UK s scientists as the best in the world .
Fourteen countries across the continent have now turned their backs on the Oxford University-researched jab in a knee-jerk reaction over unproven blood clot fears.
France, Italy, Germany and Spain are among the countries to have stopped using the vaccine, despite EU regulators insisting there was no proof the vaccine causes dangerous side-effects.
And Britons backed the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab today, which has already been rolled-out problem-free to millions across the country.
Some who have already had the jab vouched for it, while others said they would be happy to take it as the UK s scientists are the best in the world .
Mike Lockley catches up with former British champion Hugh Forde who used to work feats of magic to boil down in weight
IN the days deprived of dieticians, nutritionists and day before weigh-ins, when removing stubborn pounds was a slog of starvation and saunas, not a science, Hugh Forde somehow managed to boil his long body down to super-featherweight.
The sacrifices were torturous, draining and, frankly, dangerous. Yet Hugh, near freakishly tall for the 9st 4lb division at 5ft 10ins, retained the skills and strength to win British and Commonwealth titles.
Harrowing stories about Hugh’s struggle with the scales still abound in Birmingham boxing circles. Hugh, now 56 and a Royal Mail worker, is not a part of the current fight scene and, to an extent, is Birmingham’s forgotten British champ.