Press release from Congressman Mike Bost’s office
Rep. Bost speaks on behalf retired miners outside US Capitol (Photo provided)
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro) issued the following statement following the announcement that a permanent fix for miner’s health care benefits was included in the upcoming Fiscal 2017 spending bill:
“My colleagues and I made it abundantly clear to congressional leadership in recent weeks that another short-term extension of these vitally important health benefits for coal miners would be simply unacceptable. These men and women worked hard in extremely dangerous situations to power America and were made a promise. I am pleased that we have reached a long-term fix on the health care piece. This gives us operating room to continue working on a solution for pensions.”
WASHINGTON, DC (Fred Barbash – The Washington Post. Please Click to read the full story. Here is an excerpt) Americans trying to stay healthy have abandoned sugary drinks for diet drinks in droves over the past few decades on the theory that the latter is better than the former. Now, more evidence has emerged to refute that rationale. Indeed, a new study shows an association between diet soda and both stroke and dementia, with people drinking diet soda daily being almost three times as likely to develop stroke and dementia as those who consumed it weekly or less. “This included a higher risk of ischemic stroke, where blood vessels in the brain become obstructed and Alzheimer’s disease dementia, the most common form of dementia,” said Matthew Pase, a Boston University School of Medicine neurologist and the lead author of the study published in the journal Stroke.![Pennsylvania State Police investigate a car and probable suicide of the Cleveland Facebook killing suspect in Erie, Pa. on April 18. The car was stopped near Buffalo Road and Downing Avenue. [GREG WOHLFORD/ERIE TIMES-NEWS] (Greg Wohlford)](https://www.franklincounty-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Steve-Stephens-1.jpg)
