Final arguments on health care reform
President Barack Obama is making a final push for the health care overhaul as he heads to Capitol Hill to meet with rank and file House Democrats ahead of tomorrow's scheduled vote. Democratic leaders and Obama are focusing last-minute lobbying efforts on two groups of Democrats. They include 37 who voted against an earlier bill, and 40 who voted for it only after first making sure it would include strict abortion limits.
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Cardinal O'Malley: health care rushed
Cardinal Sean O'Malley of the Boston Archdiocese says there "seems to be rush" to pass a national health care overhaul without weighing its consequences. O'Malley commented on his blog about Sunday's expected vote on health care legislation by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Obama looks beyond health care reform
Health care isn't the only reform on President Barack Obama's mind even with a make-or-break House vote Sunday. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama reiterates the need for serious reform in the financial system to prevent another meltdown.
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Norwell woman strikes children in driveway
No charges are expected to be filed against the Borwell woman who struck her son and nephew in the driveway of her home. Police say the woman was pulling into her driveway, which slopes downward from Hawthorne Lane, and did not see the two boys, 3 and 5 yearss old, drawing on the driveway with chalk.
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MA targets bosses in insurance crackdown
Massachusetts has fined more than a thousand companies more than $18 million for failing to offer insurance to their workers. That's a small fraction of what some business owners fear could happen on a national scale if President Barack Obama signs a sweeping health care overhaul.
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