2:00PM Water Cooler 3/25/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Book collecting among the youth, Boeing executives auto-defenestrate, history of blotter, Starbucks map. ~
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Book collecting among the youth, Boeing executives auto-defenestrate, history of blotter, Starbucks map. ~
Read more...By Brett Kelman, Correspondent, who joined KFF Health News after 15 years of beat reporting at three newspapers in the USA Today Network, and Samantha Liss, Midwest Correspondent, who is an award-winning journalist covering the business of health care for the past decade. Originally published at Kaiser Health News. In the small Appalachian city of […]
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