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Recent Examples of coronersThe committee working on the legislation includes seven county coroners and a deputy coroner; representatives of city, county and state law enforcement agencies; a deputy county prosecutor; a county commissioner and a tribal member.—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026 Deputy coroners have medical degrees and have higher salaries than the coroner, whose salary is set by the state.—Erin Glynn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Feb. 2026
That would save nearly $16 million in the next fiscal year for plumbers, electricians, teachers, speech and language pathologists, and others.
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Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2026
Speech-language pathologists work with people who have disorders involving speech, language and swallowing, sometimes from injuries, medical conditions or developmental delays.
The relational sector, in his framework, encompasses nurses, doctors, teachers, therapists, childcare workers, personal chefs, and hospitality workers.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
19 Apr. 2026
Older women could use more help — from their doctors and caregivers, and from the federal government, which sets guidance around exercise — putting that into practice.
In many cases, physicians can substitute a generic drug or recommend a similar treatment that achieves the same outcome at a lower price.
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Deidre Popovich,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2026
Scheiber reported on roughly 400 primary care doctors at Allina, a major Minnesota health care system, who unionized in 2023—the largest group of private-sector physicians to do so in modern memory.
After phones at the facility allegedly stopped working on April 2, detainees began to complain, and attorney Katherine Blankenship alleged her clients told her that guards responded by threatening violence and then enacting violence on detainees, per court docs obtained by PEOPLE.