Is The Era Of OxyContin Abuse Over?
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Trevor Butterworth,Contributor
Virginia has ranked among the top two during each of the seven years of our annual Best States for Business study. It ranked first between 2006 and 2009. The state ranks on top of the regulatory category because of its strong incentive offerings and business friendly government policies. Virginia has a widely diverse economy that includes local and federal government, military, farming and manufacturing. The state is nicknamed Old Dominion and the Mother of Presidents after the eight U.S. presidents born there. [...] more
Trevor Butterworth,Contributor
Today it’s exactly six months til the 10th ever Loving Day, a movement to end racial prejudices and celebrate inter-ethnic (and all) relationships. Not that I ever let too many days go by without a little lovin’. [...] more>>
Marissa Feinberg,Contributor
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder writes an op-ed for Forbes on the "once-in-a-generation transformation" his state is undergoing. [...] more>>
Kurt Badenhausen,Forbes Staff
Loren Thompson,Contributor
Medical tourism isn't a new concept - Switzerland has been a mecca to foreigners for over 100 years by offering superior health care. Interestingly, a more recent trend of emerging, and even frontier, nations developing medical tourism industries has sprouted. [...] more>>
Miguel Forbes,Forbes Staff
a way of demonizing them and vilifying public aid itself. It is arguably unconstitutional as well. A year ago, a federal judge in Florida suspended that state’s drug-testing law on the grounds that it probably violates the Fourth Amendment’s protection against [...] more>>
Steve Shapiro, an energetic math teacher at Falls Church High School in Fairfax County, had a sick feeling when he saw the results of last spring’s state math tests. At his school, where more than half the students are low-income, the passing rate on Alg [...] more>>
regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday. At the close of the New York cash market on Friday, the rate on the outstanding three-month bill was 0.03 percent. The rate on the six-month issue was 0.09 [...] more>>