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Saturday, May 13, 2017

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2022

New deadline for states to figure out how to deliver Medicaid care to disabled and elderly people in home and community-based settings instead of nursing homes. The deadline set by the Obama administration was 2019.
KAISER HEALTH NEWS | MAY 12, 2017

2x2x3

The dimensions, in feet, of a planned new monument, sponsored by the Satanic Temple, which will be placed in a veterans memorial park in Belle Plaine, Minn. The temple petitioned for the sculpture, a black steel cube with golden inverted pentagrams, topped by an empty soldier's helmet, after the city allowed another monument depicting a soldier kneeling before a cross. It will be the nation's first satanic monument erected on public grounds.
CHRISTIAN POST | MAY 11, 2017

60,000

Total number of ash trees being cut down by the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, thanks to a catastrophic infestation of emerald ash borer beetles. The ultimate count of lost trees could be much higher: In Minneapolis alone, officials say the crisis threatens more than 175,000 trees in private yards.
MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE | MAY 10, 2017

$15.8 million

Amount that the Washington, D.C., Department of Housing and Community Development was forced to give back to the federal government in the past three years, after repeatedly missing key spending deadlines. No other agency in the country returned more affordable-housing money during that period; one local homelessness advocate called it “insane" that the District didn't spend that money while it had it.
WASHINGTON POST | MAY 9, 2017

7%

Rise in premiums on Alaska's health exchange from last year to this year. They were initially going to increase 42 percent, but the state created a reinsurance fund to convince its insurer to drop prices. Other states are now seeking to do something similar.
GOVERNING | MAY 8, 2017

$1 billion

Revenue shortfall facing the state of Pennsylvania, which is the largest since the recession.
AP/PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER | MAY 5, 2017

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