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Over a six-month period, a 78-
School
District tax increase proposal explained year-old businessman with a clever
wit and superb leadership skills be-
To the editor: mills asked for in the general fund basis for projects and expenses. If came less able to talk.
The Beach School Board is is 65.86 mills, not used, the money can be saved He gradually became more con-
working toward increasing revenue The Beach board is asking for an for large projects, such as new struc- fused and lost his ability to learn new
for the upcoming school year. additional $30,000 in the general tures or severe problems that may things, hi the end, he lost his capac-
We are currently asking the patrons fund. The board has the authority to arise. We take pride in our build- ity to swallow well and started inhal-
for 49.12 mills. The mills generate ask for up to $68,140 (a 5.76 mill ings, and considering the high ing some liquids and food until
roughly $567,840. If you followed the increase) in the general fund this school is 46 years old and the ele- finally pneumonia gently shuffled
last legislative session, there is a strong year. The anticipated mill value will mentary is 59 years old, we are see- him off this mortal coil.
push for all school districts to ask their raise the mill total to 50.49 mills, for ing more projects of repair and Dementia is a progressive deterio-
patrons for at least 60 mills. Districts an increase of 1.37 mills, updating each year. We have a need ration of intellect, memory and social
have the authority to levy up to 70 Legislators are also adding an in- for more money each year to keep skills which, by definition, interferes
mills without going to a vote. cenfive to the 15 schools that are up with the projects, with normal activities and relation-
Sixty mills is every district's below 60 mills in the general fund There are other funds that boards ships. It is an umbrella term which in-
"fair share," according to the Legis- to increase their respective levies, are authorized to ask for money to- eludes various types and causes.
lature. The state figures out how In the future, they will take away an ward. Some of them are sinking and Alzheimer's disease and vascular dis-
much money is necessary to educate additional 2 percent from the rev- interest, tuition, miscellaneous, and ease (caused by small and large
our students and then subtracts the enue allocated to the district, if a special reserve. Each one has its strokes) make up the hon's share of de-
"fair share" amount from the overall district's patrons are not paying own rules associated with it. Some mentias. Other rarer forms of demen-
pot of money allotted to each school their "fair share" of 60 mills. It is districts across the state ask for tia include frontotemporal dementia,
district. Districts at or above 60 not mandatory to get to 60 mills; money in each fund. The state av- Lewy body dementia, traumatic brain
mills get the amount put back in however, districts will be penalized erage number of mills asked of the injury and various combinations of
from the patrons and every other more for not being at that level, patrons is 97.97 mills, any of these conditions.
district falls short of that amount. In In 1953, patrons voted to start a If you have any questions or Classic Alzheimer's accounts for
Beach's case, that is roughly building fund. The vote gave comments, please contact me or any more than 60 percent of dementias.
$112,000. There are only 15 schools boards the authority to ask for up to of the hoard members. The public Early symptoms include recent mem-
out of 147, in the state, that are l0 mills each year. The board is hearing that the district is mandated ory loss or loss of the ability to learn
below the 60-mill rate, and Beach, asking patrons to consider putting to hold will take place at 6 p.m. a new thing. Until very late in the dis-
being one of them, is currently $20,000 into the building fund. in Room No. 11 at Beach High
ranked 141 out of 147, for the hum- This is anticipated to be worth 1.69 School on Wednesday, Sept.11.
ber of mills asked for, in the general mills. The money in the building Superintendent David Wegner
fund. The state average number of fund can be utilized on a yearly Beach School District
Prairie Doc
By Dr. Richard P.
Holm
ease, people with Alzheimer's usu-
ally retain the capacity to walk nor-
mally. Gait abnormalities, by
comparison, are usually found with
most of the other causes of dementia.
It is important to note that some peo-
ple can have gait abnormalities with-
out dementia. (Try to walk a mile a
day, if you are able.)
The prevalence of dementia in-
creases with age. Five percent of
those aged 71 to 79 have dementia,
while the incidence increases to 38 to
50 percent in those 90 or older. This
also means more than 50 percent of
the very old DO NOT HAVE DE-
MENTIA.
Your care provider should evalu-
ate and treat, if apropos, some often
reversible or temporary causes for
dementia-like symptoms. These in-
clude depression, low thyroid, certain
infections, multiple sclerosis, low
blood sugars, too low or too high
sodium or calcium, chronic alcohol
use, malnutrition (along with vitamin
B 1, B 12 and D deficiency), dehydra-
tion, bleeding under the lining of the
skull of the brain, poisoning from
heavy metals or pesticides, smoking,
high levels of carbon monoxide
(check your furnace), low levels of
oxygen, moderate to severe sleep
apnea, brain tumors, any major med-
ical illness and, last but not least, side
effects from certain medications (es-
pecially tranquilizers like Ativan or
Xanax). Look at that list again and
make sure those conditions are con-
sidered when you or your loved one
is first being evaluated for dementia.
Beware of scammers, who are
thick as thieves, looking to sell you
false treatments. For more credible
information about dementia, go to
medlineplus.gov. There is no chang-
ing the devastating nature of demen-
tia but knowing all about it can help.
Free produce grower training sessions scheduled
BISMARCK - The North Dakota
Department of Agriculture has
Call your representative about immigration problems s .o lo, training sessions for
produce growers across the state.
To the editor: cost our taxpayers $113 billion annu- migrants fraudulently presented them- "Fruit and vegetable growers
The cost of illegal invasion of im- ally. FAIR includes the cost of U.S.- selves as families in just one year. If and others interested in learning
migrants is staggering, born children of illegals because their the move survives legal battles, it will about produce safety, the Food
Maywood, Calif a city of 45,000, births are the direct result of illegal be one of the most important steps to- Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
went broke in 20 l0 and fired all of its immigration, ward immigration sanity yet.Produce Safety Rule, Good Agri-
,:mployees and turned police and fire The Department of Homeland Se- Contact your U.S. representative cultural Practices (GAPs), and co-
protection to the county. Half of its curity (DHS) is issuing a new regula- (202-225-2611) and senators (202- management of natural resources
population was illegal. Santa Ana, tion to overrule a court order (called 224-3121) and urge them to back the and food safety should attend,"
Calif decided to give free breakfast Flores) that illegal alien children can- Trump administration on this, to en- Agriculture Commissioner Doug
and lunch to all 55,000 students (re- not be detained more than 20 days force present immigration laws, and Goehring said. "Attending a session
gardless of whether they qualified) at (often called "catch and release"), to oppose any new amnesty or guest will satisfy the FSMA Produce
a cost of $39.6 million annually. Most Many iUegals take advantage of the worker laws. A country that doesn't Safety Rule requirement that re-
of the students were Hispanic. present situation by "renting" children control its borders is not a sovereign quires at least one supervisor or te-
A group called the Federation for with fake birth certificates or other nation, sponsible party on a farm to
American Immigration Reform fake identification to show they are Duane Stahl complete food safety training rec-
(FAIR) estimates that illegal aliens families. The DHS head says 6,000 Valley City ognized as adequate by the Food
and Drug Administration."
The sessions will be held:
Saturday, Sept. 28, at Dakota
College at Bottineau in the Thatcher How to develop a farm food
building, McMaster conferencesafety plan
room, 105 Simrall Blvd Bottineau In addition to learning about pro-
, Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Jon L. duce safety best practices, key parts
Wanzek Center for Scouting, 4200 of the FSMA Produce Safety Rule
19th Ave. S Fargo requirements are outlined within
Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020 at the each topic. There will be time for
Baymont Inn & Suites, 2611 Old questions and discussion, so partici-
Red Trail, Mandan (one day prior to pants should come prepared to share
state local foods conference)their experiences and produce safety
Saturday, May 16, 2020 at the questions.
Bowman Lodge & Convention Cen- The sessions are a full day from 9
ter, 207 US-12, Bowman a.m. to 5 p.m. with registration start-
Topics to be covered include:ing at 8:30 a.m. There will be a one-
. Introduction to produce safety hour break for attendees to leave for
Worker health, hygiene and lunch.
training To ask questions about either the
Soil amendments sessions or the FSMA Produce
Wildlife, domesticated animals Safety Rule, please contact Jamie
and land use Good, local foods specialist, at (701)
Agricultural water 328-2659 or jgood@nd.gov. To reg-
Postharvest handling and sanita- ister, go
tion tohttps://www.nd.gov/ndda/psr.
You would think that making the
prices charged by hospitals and doc-
tors available to their patients would
be a no-brainer. After all, we've be-
come accustomed to knowing the
price we pay for cars, carrots, comic
books, and almost everything else we
buy. Why not knee surgery or appen-
dectomies?
The medical establishment, it
seems, isn't keen on letting the public
in on what health practitioners charge
for their services. Despite lots of talk
about price transparency from gov-
ernment officials, including the
Trump administration, the actions of
hospitals and physicians speak other-
wise.
"Price secrecy is a calculated strat-
egy," says Jeanne Pinder, founder and
CEO of ClearHealthCosts, a digital
start-up that works with news outlets
to disclose the costs of medical care.
"All that money collected from over-
priced care and mysterious bills goes
into lobbying and behind the scenes
pressure. They lobby lawmakers and
regulators to protect the current sys-
tem and to skew it even further to
their benefit."
That's what has happened in Ohio
where the hospital industry and its
lobbyists have succeeded in killing
two laws passed by the state legisla-
ture, the first in 2015 and the second
this summer, that would have allowed
patients to know the prices of the
medical procedures and services they
were about to receive.
The 2015 law would have re-
quired hospitals and other health care
providers to give patients an estimate
of their costs no later than the same
day a procedure or medical interven-
tion would take place. The hospitals
objected. The governor's office
never wrote rules to implement the
law, and hospitals and other health
care groups sued to prevent imple-
mentation.
The law was passed as part of the
worker's compensation budget bill,
and the medical industry argued that
it violated the state prohibition on in-
cluding multiple subjects in one bill.
A lower court judge sided with the
hospitals. The matter is now before
the Ohio Court of Appeals and likely
to go to the state supreme court.
This year Jim Butler, speaker pro
tempore of the Ohio House of Repre-
sentatives and champion of the 2015
law, succeeded in getting a second
bill passed that he said took into ac-
count the health industry objections.
He called it a "much better version of
transparency." Health care providers
would not give price estimates. In-
stead, they would have to notify a pa-
tienrs insurance company within 24
hours of scheduling the procedure
and disclose what the service would
cost. The carrier would then give pa-
tients an estimate of those costs.
Patients would not have to ask for
the information. Butler said that re-
quiring patients to ask for a price es-
timate is not satisfactory since most
people won't do it.
In 2012 Massachusetts passed a
law requiring medical providers to
disclose to patients within two busi-
ness days the amount their insurer
would pay for a procedure or the hos-
pital list price if a patient was unin-
sured - but only if the patient asked.
It turned out very few did, even
though the prices for services like
MRIs vary widely.
Butler's latest attempt at price
transparency has failed, too.
Using his line-item veto power,
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine nixed But-
ler's second attempt at medical price
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transparency, saying his veto was "in
the public interest" and citing efforts
by the federal government to address
transparency. It's important the state
not put "duplicative or burdensome
regulations on health care providers,"
he said.
What's really at stake for the hos-
pitals?
Armed with price information, pa-
tients not in the midst of an emer-
gency may be able to find cheaper
providers for their care.
With medical prices rising and in-
surers demanding larger deductibles
and more expensive coinsurance, pa-
tients may be looking for all the help
they can get. A study by insurance
giant United Health Group found that
hospital prices for inpatient care in-
creased by 19 percent and physician
prices by 10 percent between 2013
and 2017.
"Hospitals certainly don't want
transparency because it will create
competition," Butler told me.
I've been covering consumer is-
sues for decades. Most businesses
I've written about have fought gov-
ernment regulation. Instead, they've
pushed for more information and
price disclosure to solve whatever
consumer abuse was taking place.
As we see in Ohio, sellers in the
health care marketplace seem to want
neither.
(What do you think will lower the
cost of care? Write to Trudy at
trudy.lieberman @gmail.com.)
Pal
mer am
aranth found in Grant County
BISMARCK - Palmer amaranth
has been confirmed in Grant
County in western North Dakota.
An area farmer contacted his
county weed officer about suspect
plants, who worked with North
Dakota State University Extension
to submit samples for DNA analy-
sis to the National Agricultural
Genotyping Center, where it was
confirmed as Palmer amaranth.
Palmer amaranth is native to the
southwestern U.S. but was acciden-
tally introduced to other areas and
has devastated crops in the South
and Midwest. It is a prolific seed
producer that can emerge through-
out the growing season. It grows
rapidly at 2-3 inches per day in op-
timum conditions and is prone to
herbicide resistance and multiple
modes of action. It is a'highly inva-
sive weed that can dramatically cut
crop yields.
"I strongly encourage agricul-
tural producers to monitor millet
plantings for Palmer amaranth, as
that may be the likely source of in-
festation," Agriculture Commis-
sioner Doug Goehring said. "With
harvest season in full swing, farm-
ers are encouraged to scout fields
and clean excess dirt and plant de-
bris off equipment between fields to
prevent unintentional spread."
The public is urged to work with
local weed officers, extension
agents and other experts to identify
and report suspect plants. Palmer
amaranth may spread through mul-
tiple channels, including: contami-
nated seed mixes; equipment and
machinery movement; animal feed
and bedding; and wild birds.
Palmer amaranth was confirmed
last year in five counties. Those
sites continue to be monitored for
Palmer amaranth. More information
on Palmer amaranth and other nox-
ious and invasive weeds is available
athttps://www.nd.gov/ndda/plant-
industries/noxious-weeds.
Please support
your local
merchants
To report a suspect plant, go to
https://www.nd.gov/ndda/pa or
contact your local county weed of-
ricer or North Dakota State Univer-
sity Extension agent.
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