http://www.orangeleader.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:17:00 +0000 http://www.orangeleader.com/columns/local_story_216231538.html http://www.orangeleader.com/columns/local_story_216231538.html And so our latest true-life, made-for-cable-TV disaster unfolds. Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:14:00 +0000 http://www.orangeleader.com/columns/local_story_216231504.html http://www.orangeleader.com/columns/local_story_216231504.html Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:53:00 +0000 http://www.orangeleader.com/columns/local_story_216005327.html http://www.orangeleader.com/columns/local_story_216005327.html Dr. Pablo Romero's clinic is filled with the happy sounds of healthy kids and pregnant moms -- punctuated by the occasional wail from a youngster facing the business end of a syringe. Most of his patients work in the rich lettuce fields and packing sheds that surround this market town, and many can only afford health care for their children under a subsidized insurance program called Healthy Families. Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:53:00 +0000 http://www.orangeleader.com/columns/local_story_216005414.html http://www.orangeleader.com/columns/local_story_216005414.html To a casual observer, the antics of both parties in Congress may resemble the monkey house at a zoo, rather than any attempts at systematic (let alone sensible) behavior. But these are rational men and women, and what they're doing is carefully designed to achieve specific goals.