{"id":3539,"date":"2005-01-09T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2005-01-09T16:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/01\/09\/turns-by-itself\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:04","slug":"turns-by-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/01\/09\/turns-by-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"turns by itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

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chess men in boxes . . .<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Michael Dylan Welch<\/FONT><\/A> full size<\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT>, color photo & haiku “welch25chessN”  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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from <\/FONT>Open Window<\/FONT><\/A>, haiku & photographs <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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more Michael Dylan <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>Welch from<\/FONT><\/A> the premiere issue of<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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               Jason Sanford Brown’s new haiku e-journal <\/FONT>roadrunner<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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second trimester<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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blue water<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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sleep-in Sunday: <\/DIV>
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snowmelt <\/DIV>
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                               <\/FONT>[Jan. 9, 2005]<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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one-breath pundit<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> <\/DIV>
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“tinyredcheck”  Since I moved to <\/FONT>Schenectady<\/FONT><\/A> in<\/FONT> 1988, I’ve been surprised that so many lawyers, <\/DIV>
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who did not seem to be “public-service types,” sought County employment as they <\/DIV>
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reached middle age — especially in part-time positions (ostensibly 17.5-hour weeks), <\/DIV>
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which allowed them to keep their private practices.  Today’s Sunday Gazette<\/A><\/EM><\/FONT> offered <\/DIV>
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spouses a sweet deal: Free health insurance for life after just five years’ <\/DIV>
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credit in the state retirement system.”<\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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The insurance costs the County $6 million annually, which represents one-third of its <\/DIV>
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total health insurance costs, and comes to over $5400 per retiree.  And, because working <\/DIV>
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for any branch of local government (including public defender offices, or town justices) <\/DIV>
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counts as state retirement time, the retiree might have “served” Schenectady County for a <\/DIV>
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very brief stint before “earning” this (and other) benefits.  Under the new policy, you’ll have <\/DIV>
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to work 15 years to get free health insurance for yourself and your spouse.  It’s clear that <\/DIV>
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a lot of elected officials are receiving this particular benefit, but the Gazettee<\/EM> was not <\/DIV>
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\"crusade  A New York Times<\/EM> editorial<\/A> today starts with “Tort reform<\/STRONG>,” the Bush <\/DIV>
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administration’s answer to the problem of high medical malpractice costs, makes sense from <\/DIV>
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only one aspect: the political. ”  It’s a good read.  Confused about the cost of tort reform?<\/DIV>
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Declarations and Exclusions<\/FONT><\/A> offers help.<\/DIV><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/SPAN>
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  chess men in boxes . . . the cafe’s ceiling fan turns by itself     Michael Dylan Welch full size, color photo & haiku “welch25chessN”  from Open Window, haiku & photographs      more Michael Dylan Welch from the premiere issue of                Jason Sanford Brown’s new haiku e-journal roadrunner.       second trimester a package […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-V5","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13419,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions\/13419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}