What Obamacare's Successes Should Tell Us About Its Failures and other top stories.

• What Obamacare's Successes Should Tell Us About Its Failures

  It’s come to be known as Obamacare. Sometimes it seems more like O-drama-care. Nearly a decade has passed since Democrats first began promoting the initiative that eventually became the Affordable Care Act. And at no point has their effort to reform America’s dysfunctional health care system gone easily. Passing the law was a struggle, and then implementing it was, too. Now there are new problems. Many of the nation’s largest insurers say they are losing big money on the policies they sell thro..

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• Coastal Commission to meet Wednesday to consider Banning Ranch proposal

  

  The fate of Banning Ranch in Newport Beach could be decided Wednesday after years of debate among the land's developer, the city, state officials and environmentalists, all of whom hope to have a say in the future of the coastal spread.During a meeting in Newport Beach, the California Coastal Commission — whose 12 members have final say over development along the coast — will consider a proposal by Newport Banning Ranch LLC to build 895 homes, a 75-room hotel, a 20-bed hostel and 45,100 square ..

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• Labor Day gas prices to average less than prior years

  

  Gas prices Posted: Saturday, September 3, 2016 8:50 pm Labor Day gas prices to average less than prior years By Rachael Riley | Killeen Daily Herald Killeen Daily Herald | 0 comments Despite an increase in gas prices this week, drivers will pay less than they did for Labor Day last year. The statewide gas price average in Texas is now $2.04 for a gallon of regular unleaded ..

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• Hong Kong Election Highlights Rising Anti-China Mood

  

  HONG KONG — Hong Kongers voted Sunday in the specially administered Chinese city's most crucial election since the handover from Britain in 1997, the outcome of which could pave the way for a fresh round of political confrontations over Beijing's control of the city.The vote for Legislative Council lawmakers is set to test the unity of Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp as a new generation of radical activists, who emerged in the wake of 2014 pro-democracy street protests, joined the race.They'r..

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• Multinationals Don't Pay Less Tax Than Austrian Sausage Stands, No Chancellor, They Don't

  

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